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Keeping Faith in 2030: Religions and the Sustainable Development Goals (highlight notice)

2030 年坚守信仰：宗教与可持续发展目标（重点通知）

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P006418/1
负责人：
Emma Tomalin
金额：
$ 5.95万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP006418%2F1
关键词：
Keeping Faith 2030 Religions Sustainable

项目摘要

Religion is a major cultural, social, political, and economic factor in many ODA recipient countries, and understanding the relevant religious dynamics and the role of faith actors is crucial to bringing about sustainable development. While development practice and development studies had essentially subscribed to a modernist, secular paradigm of social change for much of the twentieth century, this has begun to change in recent years. Increasing portions of development aid are now channelled via so-called faith based organisations, and religion is increasingly recognised as a human resource rather than an obstacle to development. Many religious groups have also been involved in development policy by adopting and heralding the Millennium Development Goals and through consultations in the drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals.Academic research has, to some extent, addressed these developments in pioneering research projects (such as the DfID-funded Religion and Development (RaD) research programme at Birmingham University, 2005-2011) and there has been an increasing number of relevant publications on related themes, contributing to the rise of a new academic field of 'religions and development' in the UK and internationally, as an interdisciplinary effort between the Arts & Humanities and other disciplines. While these are promising developments and a useful stepping stone for this proposal, there are major challenges which need to be addressed by a sustained effort in order to take religions and development research further, so that it can better respond to the challenges and opportunities generated via the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and its associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By networking scholars from the UK, Ethiopia, and India, the proposed Research Network seeks to address the following three challenges: 1) Integrate voices from the Global South: Notable exceptions notwithstanding, there is a considerable disconnect between the religions and development literature produced in the Global North and what development researchers, policy makers and practitioners do in many ODA recipient countries in the Global South. There is a danger that the current interest in religions and development reflects little more than a donor trend among Western policy makers and researchers, while in ODA recipient countries the continued public role of religions is a much more problematic and controversial case.2) Integration of faith-based actors: While there is much research on so-called faith-based organisations and increased funding opportunities available to them, collaboration in research and development policy and practice has been harder to achieve. More work needs to be done for enabling a more in-depth and open dialogue between faith-based organisation and development actors, especially in order to provide an important feedback mechanism for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.3) Improved methodologies, interdisciplinary dialogue, and better data: Academic debate on religions and development is not as nuanced as it could be, due to different methodologies, varying conceptualisations of religion, and relatively little comparative data. The network will focus on issues of methodology and comparison across disciplinary boundaries and methodological premises to pave the way for more balanced and comparative discussions. Our regional focus supports this approach, as it allows us to to collate data, major issues and perspectives in our policy briefings and dossiers in a comprehensive manner.The activities of the research network are built around three conferences (UK, Ethiopia, India), which will be used to network the main actors in the field, produce material and publications relevant to academic and non-academic users, and highlight central areas for further research. A multi-user website and steering group will facililitate ongoing activities.

在许多官方发展援助受援国，宗教是一个重要的文化、社会、政治和经济因素，了解相关的宗教动态和信仰行为者的作用对于实现可持续发展至关重要。虽然发展实践和发展研究在二十世纪的大部分时间里基本上采用了一种现代主义的、世俗的社会变革范式，但近年来这种情况已开始改变。越来越多的发展援助现在通过所谓的基于信仰的组织提供，宗教越来越被视为一种人力资源，而不是发展的障碍。许多宗教团体还通过采纳和宣传千年发展目标，并通过协商起草可持续发展目标，参与发展政策，学术研究在一定程度上通过开创性的研究项目探讨了这些事态发展（如伯明翰大学由国际发展部资助的宗教与发展研究项目，2005-2011年），并有越来越多的相关出版物相关的主题，促进了一个新的学术领域的崛起“宗教与发展”在英国和国际上，作为艺术与人文学科和其他学科之间的跨学科努力。虽然这些都是有希望的发展，也是这一提议的有用垫脚石，但仍存在重大挑战，需要通过持续努力加以解决，以便进一步开展宗教与发展研究，从而更好地应对联合国2030年可持续发展议程及其相关可持续发展目标（SDG）所带来的挑战和机遇。通过将来自英国、埃塞俄比亚和印度的学者联网，拟议的研究网络寻求解决以下三个挑战：1）整合来自全球南方的声音：尽管有明显的例外，但全球北方产生的宗教和发展文献与全球南方许多官方发展援助接受国的发展研究人员、政策制定者和实践者之间存在相当大的脱节。目前对宗教和发展的兴趣只不过反映了西方决策者和研究人员的捐助趋势，而在官方发展援助受援国，宗教继续发挥公共作用是一个更有问题和争议的问题。虽然对所谓的信仰组织进行了大量研究，并为他们提供了更多的资助机会，在研发政策和实践方面的合作更难实现。需要做更多的工作，以便在信仰组织和发展行为体之间进行更深入和公开的对话，特别是为了为实施可持续发展目标提供重要的反馈机制。关于宗教与发展的学术辩论并不像它可能的那样细致入微，这是由于不同的方法论，不同的宗教概念，以及相对较少的比较数据。该网络将侧重于跨学科界限和方法论前提的方法和比较问题，为更平衡和比较性的讨论铺平道路。我们的区域重点支持这种做法，因为它使我们能够全面整理我们的政策简报和档案中的数据、主要问题和观点。（联合王国、埃塞俄比亚、印度），将用于与该领域的主要行为者建立联系，制作与学术和非学术用户有关的材料和出版物，并突出重点领域进行进一步研究。一个多用户网站和指导小组将为正在进行的活动提供便利。