Orthodox Christian Material Ecology and the Sociopolitics of Religion (Renewal)

正统基督教物质生态学和宗教社会政治学（更新）

• 批准号: MR/Y003942/1
• 负责人: Timothy Carroll
• 金额: $ 75.48万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY003942%2F1
• 关键词: Orthodox; Christian; Material; Ecology; Sociopolitics

Aims: This project asks 'What role does the material ecology play in shaping the sociopolitics of Global Orthodoxy?' and in this renewal period pushes this into less obviously material domains of mental health, administration and politics.Impact: Orthodox Christianity is a tradition based on discourse, but there has been very little research looking at the specifics of how that works. Focusing on discourse also tends to over emphasise words and belief. Based on the work of Max Muller, this project insists that religion must start with what is perceived, not with concepts such as belief in the supernatural. This means we situate discursive traditions not in concepts but the material culture of local and global populations. This reframes how we understand religion and forefronts the impact that religious practice has on material aspects like health, the environment and geopolitics.Context: Social scientific interest in religion looks at the variation in the lived religion from one place, compared to another. However there are periods of time - such as from April 2018, after the president of Ukraine asked the Patriarch of Constantinople to intervene in the Russian Church in Ukraine - when religion cannot be studied only in the local expression. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is complicated by historic tensions between local Orthodox Churches and local understandings of shared religious heritage and the buildings, land and bodies that make up that carry that heritage. The materiality of discourse must be seen as central to the form and practice of any given tradition.Research: Framed in terms of three research domains, this project focuses on the material conditions of Global Orthodox sociopolitics, conducting research amongst Orthodox Christians and religious institutions. The project investigates how the properties and affordances of the material ecology (including the body, the built environment, and the wider 'natural' order) shape and are marshalled within the discourse of the Orthodox Churches. This extension focuses on mental health, charity administration and governance as extensions of the previous three domains (the body, the person and the environment) in order to push the findings further and hone the theoretical and methodological approach. The mental health domain looks at current efforts to bring psychological insights about the human person into the practice of the Church in order to address the mental health crisis amongst religious communities. The tension between ancient theological understandings of the person and modern scientific insights gives rise to ongoing efforts to integrate what can be without losing the richness offered by the spiritual tradition that, itself, emphasises a wholistic approach to health. The charity administration and finance domain takes a diachronic and synchronic approach to the diverse ethnic and historical conditions by which the various Orthodox jurisdictions came to be established in the United Kingdom. As different immigration waves arrived in the UK, migrants formed 'diaspora' churches in different ways in order to meet their religious and wider social needs. This domain looks at the tensions between charity law in the UK and the church law concerning proper church order, as well as the ethics of money management and the ways decisions about charity/Church administration are made. The final domain, of policy and governance focuses on how different local Churches - for example in the UK, Greece, Russia, Cyprus, Syria, and Nigeria - relate to each other and how these Churches relate to their own governments and, often on the behalf of persecuted Churches, other foreign governments.Output: This project will produce three academic books, six academic articles, and - through partnership with the local Church charities - policy guidelines and toolkits to help address the issues relating to the first two research domains.

目的：该项目询问“材料生态学在塑造全球正统观念的社会政治方面起着什么作用？”在这个更新时期，将其推向了精神健康，行政和政治的重要物质领域。影响力：东正教基督教是基于话语的传统，但是很少有研究研究其工作原理的细节。专注于话语也倾向于过度强调单词和信念。基于Max Muller的工作，该项目坚持认为宗教必须从所感知的东西开始，而不是从对超自然现象的信仰等概念开始。这意味着我们将话语传统放在概念中，而是本地和全球人口的物质文化中。这重塑了我们如何理解宗教并前列宗教实践对诸如健康，环境和地缘政治等物质方面的影响。Context：宗教的社会科学兴趣探讨了与另一个地方相比，宗教与一个地方的差异。然而，在乌克兰总统要求君士坦丁堡的族长介入乌克兰的俄罗斯教会之后，例如2018年4月，例如2018年4月 - 仅当宗教不能以地方表达方式进行研究。乌克兰正在进行的冲突使地方东正教教堂之间的历史紧张局势以及当地对共享宗教遗产以及所构成的建筑物，土地和尸体的理解使乌克兰的冲突变得复杂。话语的重要性必须被视为任何给定传统的形式和实践的核心。研究：根据三个研究领域的构建，该项目着重于全球正统社会殖民地的物质条件，在东正教基督教徒和宗教机构中进行研究。该项目调查了物质生态学的财产和负担如何（包括身体，建筑环境和更广泛的“自然”秩序）形状，并在东正教教堂的话语中进行编组。这一扩展集中在心理健康，慈善管理和治理上，作为前三个领域（身体，人和环境）的扩展，以进一步推动发现并磨练理论和方法论方法。精神卫生领域着眼于当前的努力，以将有关人类人的心理见解带入教会的实践，以解决宗教团体之间的心理健康危机。古老的神学理解与现代科学见解之间的张力引起了持续的努力，以整合可能是什么，而不会失去精神传统所提供的丰富性，即精神传统本身强调了一种全面的健康方法。慈善政府和金融领域对各种东正教管辖区的各种种族和历史条件采取了简短和同步的方法，并在英国建立了各种正统司法管辖区。随着不同的移民浪潮到达英国，移民以不同的方式形成了“侨民”教堂，以满足他们的宗教和更广泛的社会需求。该领域着眼于英国慈善法与教会法律有关适当的教会秩序的紧张关系，以及货币管理的道德规范以及有关慈善/教会行政管理的决定的方式。政策和治理的最终领域集中于不同的地方教会，例如在英国，希腊，俄罗斯，俄罗斯，塞浦路斯，叙利亚和尼日利亚 - 彼此之间存在关系 - 这些教会与他们自己的政府如何与他们自己的政府有关，通常是由迫害的教会代表其他外国政府，其他教堂的委员会。工具包有助于解决与前两个研究领域有关的问题。