Between Intensification and Relativisation. Modalities and Mechanisms of Religious Change among Muslim and Christian Refugees from Syria in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

介于强化与相对化之间。

• 批准号: 530542259
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Alexander-Kenneth Nagel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Praktische Theologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/530542259?language=en
• 关键词: Between; Intensification; Relativisation.; Modalities; Mechanisms

The aim of the proposed Weave project is to explore the spectrum of religiosity and the modalities and mechanisms of religious change among Syrian refugees in a country-comparative perspective. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, people from Syria have formed the largest or second largest group of asylum seekers since 2011. Early on, various politicians have addressed the religious background of refugees in the context of integration policy. They portraited Muslim asylum seekers as a potential threat for social integration and advocated a preferential admission of Christians in need of protection. The since the early 200s ongoing Islamophobic discourse has essentialised Islam and Muslims as an outgroup and a threat to social cohesion. This anti-Muslim discourse also shaped the perception of the arrival of refugees in Western Europe due to the “Arab Spring” and the war in Syria. Despite this socio-political interest in the religion of refugees, so far, neither the characteristic differences between Christian and Muslim refugees nor the spectrum of their religiosity nor the patterns of religious change in the context of flight have received proper attention in academic studies of religion and migration. The project intends to help reducing these lacunas. It proceeds on the assumption that religious change among refugees moves along a spectrum between relativisation and intensification of religious belief, practice and community attachment. We assume that religious change is shaped by systemic structures of the countries of arrival, such as migration and welfare regimes, the politicisation of Islamophobic discourse and the institutional accommodation of religious minorities. Against this backdrop, we formulate several assumptions with regard to socio-demographic categories (age and gender), migration biography, minority status, religious affinity and difference to the countries’ majority religion. These assumptions will serve as a heuristic tool in order to identify and systematise the various influencing factors on religious changes as well as a starting point for the analysis of the modalities and mechanisms of religious change. The research design is based on a combination of semi-structured interviews, expert interviews and photojournalistic documentation along the Photovoice approach. This mixed-methods design will help to uncover different dimensions of religious change and to synthesise emic and etic perspectives. The project is of scientific and societal relevance as it aims to improve the level of knowledge about the spectrum of religiosity and religious change among Syrian refugees faced with Islamophobic discourse and other forms of discrimination. This study hopes to help contributing to a more evidence-based debate about refugees and their religion which can help to inform migration and integration politics.

拟议的Weave项目的目的是从国家比较的角度探讨叙利亚难民的宗教信仰范围以及宗教变化的方式和机制。在德国、奥地利和瑞士，自2011年以来，来自叙利亚的人构成了最大或第二大寻求庇护者群体。早些时候，各种政治家在融合政策的范围内处理了难民的宗教背景问题。他们将穆斯林寻求庇护者描述为社会融合的潜在威胁，并主张优先接纳需要保护的基督徒。自200年代初以来，持续不断的仇视伊斯兰教的言论将伊斯兰教和穆斯林本质上视为外群体和对社会凝聚力的威胁。这种反穆斯林的言论也塑造了人们对“阿拉伯之春”和叙利亚战争导致的难民抵达西欧的看法。尽管对难民的宗教有这种社会政治兴趣，但迄今为止，基督教和穆斯林难民之间的特征差异、他们的宗教信仰范围以及在逃亡情况下的宗教变化模式都没有在宗教和移徙的学术研究中得到适当的注意。该项目旨在帮助减少这些缺陷。它的出发点是这样一种假设，即难民的宗教变化沿着宗教信仰、实践和社区依恋的相对化和强化之间的一个光谱。我们认为，宗教的变化是由抵达国的系统结构，如移民和福利制度，伊斯兰恐惧症的话语和宗教少数群体的机构住宿的政治化。在此背景下，我们制定了几个假设，社会人口类别（年龄和性别），移民传记，少数民族地位，宗教亲和力和国家的多数宗教的差异。这些假设将作为一种启发式工具，以确定和系统化的各种影响因素对宗教的变化，以及一个出发点，分析的模式和机制的宗教变化。研究设计是基于半结构化访谈，专家访谈和摄影新闻文件沿着的Photovoice方法相结合。这种混合方法的设计将有助于揭示宗教变化的不同方面，并综合主位和客位的观点。该项目具有科学和社会意义，因为它旨在提高面临仇视伊斯兰言论和其他形式歧视的叙利亚难民对宗教信仰和宗教变化的认识水平。这项研究希望有助于促进关于难民及其宗教的更循证的辩论，这有助于为移民和融合政治提供信息。