What are the Impacts of Religious Diversity? Regions in three European Countries Compared

宗教多样性的影响是什么？

• 批准号: 56583873
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Volkhard Krech
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-31 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/56583873?language=en
• 关键词: What; Impacts; Religious; Diversity; Regions

While religious diversity has been increasing in many European societies, there is an ongoing debate on how to explain this trend and to evaluate its religious and social impacts. In particular, protagonists of rational choice theory claim that pluralisation leads to religious vitalisation. However, this hypothesis has not been tested convincingly, mainly due to a lack in the development of adequate measuring instruments. The proposed project aims to close this gap by testing a new multi-dimensional model for measuring organisational and adherence diversity, as well as their impacts on religious vitality and civil society. The model has been developed by scholars in the sociology and psychology of religion during research on religious pluralization in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The multi-dimensional measuring model will be used to compare different regions within Germany, Finland, and Slovenia. These countries have been selected for their diverging political and religious backgrounds: Finland as being mainly influenced by the Lutheran Church, Slovenia by Roman Catholicism on the one hand and until 1989 by a communist regime on the other, and Germany characterised by a mixture of denominations and quite a high percentage of unaffiliated persons. By focussing on one rural and one urban region within each of these countries, we will also address the factor of population density, which has often been neglected in research on religious diversity. Altogether, the proposed procedure of correlating religious diversity with other religious and social factors (like interreligious dialogue, religious conflicts, efforts to integrate foreign or marginal religious communities, the degree of xenophobia, etc.) will enhance our understanding of the relationship between religious life, civic values, and social coherence. Thus, the project will provide information for political and legal arrangements for religious pluralism within the European unification process.

尽管许多欧洲社会的宗教多样性一直在增加，但关于如何解释这一趋势并评估其宗教和社会影响的持续辩论。特别是，理性选择理论的主角声称多元化导致了宗教活力。但是，这一假设尚未令人信服地检验，这主要是由于缺乏足够的测量工具的发展。拟议的项目旨在通过测试一个新的多维模型来弥补这一差距，以衡量组织和依从性多样性及其对宗教活力和公民社会的影响。该模型是由学者在德国北莱茵 - 韦斯特法利亚的宗教多元化研究期间的社会学和宗教心理学开发的。多维测量模型将用于比较德国，芬兰和斯洛文尼亚的不同地区。这些国家的政治和宗教背景有所不同：芬兰一方面是由路德教会，斯洛文尼亚的主要影响，一方面由罗马天主教，直到1989年是由共产主义政权的另一方面，而德国的一方面，而德国则是特征的，其特征是派别的混合和相互交接的人的比例很高。通过关注这些国家中每个国家内的一个农村和一个城市地区，我们还将解决人口密度的因素，这在宗教多样性的研究中经常被忽略。总而言之，将宗教多样性与其他宗教和社会因素相关联的拟议程序（例如，宗教对话，宗教冲突，融合外国或边缘宗教社区的努力，仇外心理的程度等）将增强我们对宗教生活，社会价值观和社会连贯性之间关系的理解。因此，该项目将在欧洲统一进程中为宗教多元化的政治和法律安排提供信息。