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

目标：这个项目问：“物质生态在塑造全球正统的社会政治中扮演什么角色？”在这个更新的时期，将其推到了不那么明显的物质领域，如心理健康，行政和政治。影响：东正教是一种基于话语的传统，但很少有研究关注其如何运作的具体细节。专注于话语也倾向于过分强调话语和信仰。根据马克斯·穆勒的工作，这个项目坚持认为，宗教必须从被感知的东西开始，而不是从信仰超自然的概念开始。这意味着我们不是在概念上，而是在当地和全球人口的物质文化上，来继承话语传统。这重新构建了我们如何理解宗教，并提前宗教实践对健康，环境和地缘政治等物质方面的影响。背景：宗教的社会科学兴趣着眼于从一个地方到另一个地方的生活宗教的变化。然而，也有一段时间-例如从2018年4月开始，乌克兰总统要求君士坦丁堡牧首干预乌克兰的俄罗斯教会-宗教不能只在当地表达。乌克兰持续的冲突因当地东正教会与当地对共同宗教遗产以及承载该遗产的建筑物、土地和机构的理解之间的历史紧张关系而变得复杂。话语的物质性必须被视为任何特定传统的形式和实践的核心。研究：该项目以三个研究领域为框架，重点关注全球东正教社会政治的物质条件，在东正教基督徒和宗教机构中进行研究。该项目调查了物质生态（包括身体，建筑环境和更广泛的“自然”秩序）的属性和启示如何在东正教会的话语中形成和排列。该扩展侧重于心理健康，慈善管理和治理，作为前三个领域（身体，人和环境）的扩展，以进一步推动研究结果并磨练理论和方法。心理健康领域着眼于目前的努力，把对人类的心理见解纳入教会的实践，以解决宗教社区之间的心理健康危机。古代神学对人的理解和现代科学的见解之间的紧张关系引起了持续的努力，在不失去精神传统所提供的丰富性的情况下整合可能的内容，精神传统本身强调对健康的整体方法。慈善管理和金融领域采取了历时和共时的方法，以不同的种族和历史条件下，各种东正教管辖权来建立在英国。随着不同的移民潮抵达英国，移民以不同的方式组建了“散居”教会，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和教会法之间的紧张关系，涉及适当的教会秩序，以及资金管理的道德和慈善/教会管理的决策方式。最后一个领域是政策和治理，重点关注不同的地方教会--例如英国、希腊、俄罗斯、塞浦路斯、叙利亚和尼日利亚--如何相互关联，以及这些教会如何与自己的政府，以及通常代表受迫害教会与其他外国政府的关系。输出：该项目将出版三本学术著作，六篇学术文章，通过与当地教会慈善机构的合作，政策指导方针和工具包，以帮助解决与前两个研究领域有关的问题。

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.