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Roman Catholics in Britain: Faith, Society and Politics.

英国的罗马天主教徒：信仰、社会和政治。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S003258/1
负责人：
Ben Clements
金额：
$ 21.69万
依托单位：
University of Leicester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS003258%2F1
关键词：
Roman Catholics Britain Faith Society

项目摘要

In recent decades, the religious profile of British society has changed significantly, with a marked increase in 'religious nones', declining proportions identifying as Anglican or with a particular Non-Conformist tradition, an increase in non-denominational Christians, and the spread of non-Christian faiths. Within this wider context, Roman Catholics have remained broadly stable as a proportion of the adult population and represent the second largest Christian denomination in Britain, after Anglicans. However, there have been significant internal and external developments which have affected the institutional church and wider Roman Catholic community in Britain, and which could have shaped how Catholics' think about and engage with their faith and how it impacts their daily lives. Recent years have seen demographic change through significant inflows of Catholic migrants coming from Eastern Europe, the papal visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain in autumn 2010 (the first since 1982), Pope Francis's pontificate from 2013 onwards, Catholic leaders' political interventions against 'aggressive secularism' and in other policy debates, and internal crises and debates impacting on the perceived authority of the Catholic Church.The last major academic investigation of the Catholic community (and only in England and Wales) was undertaken in the late 1970s (Hornsby-Smith and Lee 1979; Hornsby-Smith 1987, 1991). It found that the 'distinctive subculture' of the Catholic community in the post-war period was evolving and dissolving in complex ways due to processes of social change and developments within the wider faith, such as the Second Vatican Council (Hornsby-Smith 1987, 1991). It also demonstrated growing internal heterogeneity in Catholics' religious beliefs, practices and social attitudes (Hornsby-Smith 1987, 1991). However, while there has been some recent scholarship on particular topics relating to Catholics and Catholicism in Britain, using both general social surveys and limited one-off denomination-specific opinion polls (Clements 2014a, 2014b; 2016; Bullivant 2016a, 2016b), there has been no systematic academic inquiry into the Roman Catholic population in Britain. In comparison, an academic-led survey series has profiled the Catholic population in the United States on five occasions between 1987 and 2011, with other large-scale surveys carried out in recent years by organisations such as the Pew Research Center. Most existing research into the waning of religious belief, practice, and affiliation in Britain has focused either on the very large, macro level or on the very small, micro level. While both are important and necessary, largely missing has been sustained sociological attention on how secularising trends have affected - and are being mediated within - individual religious communities.This project would undertake such a task for Roman Catholics in Britain, by conducting a large-scale, thematically wide-ranging and nationally representative survey. It would provide a detailed study of personal faith, social attitudes and political engagement within a significant religious minority with distinctive historical roots and in which 'tribal' feelings of belonging have been strong.The core topics would consist of personal faith, religiosity and associational involvement in parish life; attitudes towards leadership and governance within the institutional church; attitudes on social and moral issues; and political attitudes and engagement. It would be thematically wide-ranging and analytically rich, providing a detailed portrait of contemporary social, religious and attitudinal heterogeneity amongst Catholics.By undertaking this large-scale and wide-ranging survey, an important and distinctive contribution would be made to the sociology of religion in Britain in general and to the study of its Catholic population in particular.

近几十年来，英国社会的宗教形象发生了重大变化，“宗教非”的显着增加，英国国教或特定的非正统派传统的比例下降，非民族基督徒的增加，以及非基督教信仰的传播。在这一更广泛的背景下，罗马天主教徒在成年人口中的比例基本保持稳定，是英国第二大基督教教派，仅次于圣公会。然而，有重大的内部和外部发展影响了英国的机构教会和更广泛的罗马天主教社区，这可能会影响天主教徒如何思考和参与他们的信仰，以及它如何影响他们的日常生活。近年来，随着来自东欧的天主教移民的大量涌入，人口结构发生了变化，2010年秋季教皇本笃十六世访问英国，（自1982年以来的第一次）、教皇弗朗西斯从2013年起的教皇任期、天主教领导人反对“激进世俗主义”的政治干预以及其他政策辩论，以及影响天主教会权威的内部危机和辩论。天主教社区的最后一次重大学术调查（仅在英格兰和威尔士）是在20世纪70年代末进行的（Hornsby-Smith和Lee 1979; Hornsby-Smith 1987，1991）。它发现，在战后时期，天主教社区的“独特的亚文化”正在以复杂的方式演变和解散，这是由于社会变革和更广泛的信仰发展的过程，如第二次梵蒂冈理事会（Hornsby-Smith 1987，1991）。它还表明，天主教徒的宗教信仰、实践和社会态度的内部异质性日益增加（Hornsby-Smith 1987，1991）。然而，虽然最近有一些关于英国天主教徒和天主教的特定主题的奖学金，使用一般社会调查和有限的一次性特定于天主教的民意调查（Clements 2014 a，2014 b; 2016; Bullivant 2016 a，2016 b），但没有系统的学术调查英国的罗马天主教人口。相比之下，1987年至2011年期间，一项由学术主导的调查系列对美国天主教徒人口进行了五次调查，近年来，皮尤研究中心等组织进行了其他大规模调查。大多数现有的关于英国宗教信仰、实践和隶属关系衰落的研究要么集中在非常大的宏观层面，要么集中在非常小的微观层面。虽然两者都是重要和必要的，但在很大程度上缺乏对世俗化趋势如何影响--以及如何在--个别宗教社区内进行调解--的持续社会学关注，本项目将通过开展一项大规模、主题广泛和具有全国代表性的调查，为英国的罗马天主教徒承担这样一项任务。这将提供一个具有独特历史根源和“部落”归属感强烈的重要宗教少数群体内部的个人信仰、社会态度和政治参与的详细研究，核心议题包括个人信仰、宗教虔诚度和教区生活中的社团参与;对机构教会内部领导和治理的态度;对社会和道德问题的态度;政治态度和参与。这将是主题广泛和分析丰富，提供了一个详细的肖像当代社会，宗教和态度之间的异质性天主教徒，通过进行这种大规模和广泛的调查，一个重要的和独特的贡献，在英国的宗教社会学一般，特别是其天主教徒的研究。