Sexuality and Global faith Networks: A Social Topography

性与全球信仰网络：社会地形

• 批准号: AH/F009089/1
• 负责人: Gill Valentine
• 金额: $ 39.44万
• 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: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF009089%2F1
• 关键词: Sexuality; Global; faith; Networks; Social

This interdisciplinary project on sexuality and faith employs geographical theorisations of global networks and space to develop new insights into trans-national religious networks. Debates have raged within Christian churches over the morality of homosexuality, the recognition of same-sex unions, and the ordination of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in which Christian pressure groups have sought to influence public debates on LGB rights/protections. Christians who oppose homosexuality see it as undermining traditional values and exposing the bankruptcy of secular humanism. Homosexuality has become for many the key issue distinguishing between orthodoxy and a liberalism that erodes classical doctrine and ethics. In contrast, Christian supporters of gay rights understand their position as consistent with a Christian ethic emphasising liberation and concern for the marginalised. The Anglican/Episcopal communion is an important touchstone for these debates since the 1998 Lambeth Conference (of bishops from the worldwide church) and the 2003 ordination of a gay bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States. Partly propelled by alarm at what is perceived as the decline of the churches of the West because of the sexuality issue, and their increasing secularism, an impetus has developed amongst Anglican churches in Africa for a 'reverse mission' to the UK and US. It has resulted in the appointment, for example of Sandy Miller, the rector of a thriving Evangelical church in London, Holy Trinity Brompton, as a 'missionary bishop' of the Church of Uganda in BritainThe project will adopt a social topographical approach as an innovative theoretical for examining the complex global network of the Anglican Communion, and how wider debates about sexuality have flowed across space and how responses are being formed within particular cultural/religious/economic milieus with particular (post)colonial histories. The fieldwork will be based at three national nodes in this global network: UK, USA, South Africa. It involves multiple methods including: 1. mapping of the historical socio-legislative context in each node;2. discourse topography of websites and pressure group publications: to trace how debates in one nodal context have been mobilised and transformed in other contexts; 3. participant observation at national conventions which are attended by representatives from the global communion (including formal open meetings and associated fringe meetings by interest groups); 4. interviews with key stakeholders (with representatives from national churches and LGBT groups, and those with trans-national affiliations) to examine operational strategies, global networking, and emerging institutional configurations; 5. parish level case studies in two contrasting parishes in each nodal context to explore the intersection of global-local processes (where debates within the global communion are mediated through the everyday beliefs and practices of their parishioners). 6. meetings with other African representatives: in order to ensure we have captured the wider 'African voice' particularly those (e.g. Nigerians) unable to speak freely in their home countries.Through novel methodological and dissemination strategies (including: a BBC Question Time style event and international workshop on social topographies), the project will engage the public and policy makers (e.g. Commission for Equality and Human Rights) at a moment when issues of religious freedom and sexual equality are coming into conflict.

这个关于性与信仰的跨学科项目采用了全球网络和空间的地理理论，以发展对跨国宗教网络的新见解。基督教教会内部就同性恋的道德、对同性结合的承认以及女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）的任命进行了激烈的辩论，基督教压力团体试图影响关于LGB权利/保护的公开辩论。反对同性恋的基督徒认为同性恋破坏了传统价值观，暴露了世俗人文主义的破产。对许多人来说，同性恋已经成为区分正统和侵蚀古典学说和伦理的自由主义的关键问题。相比之下，同性恋权利的基督教支持者认为他们的立场与强调解放和关心边缘化群体的基督教伦理是一致的。英国圣公会/圣公会共融是自1998年兰贝斯会议（来自世界各地教会的主教）和2003年美国圣公会一名同性恋主教的任命以来这些辩论的重要试金石。由于性问题和日益增长的世俗主义，西方教会被视为衰落，这在一定程度上引起了人们的警觉，在非洲的圣公会教会中产生了一种向英国和美国“反向使命”的动力。例如，它已导致任命桑迪米勒，一个蓬勃发展的福音派教堂在伦敦，圣Trinity布朗普顿校长，作为“传教主教”的乌干达教会在英国该项目将采用社会地形学的方法作为一个创新的理论研究复杂的全球网络的圣公会，以及关于性的更广泛的辩论如何跨越空间流动，以及如何在特定的文化/宗教/经济环境中形成具有特定（后）殖民历史的反应。实地工作将在这个全球网络的三个国家节点进行：英国，美国，南非。它涉及多种方法，包括：1。在每个节点中映射历史社会立法背景;2.网站和压力团体出版物的话语地形图：追踪一个节点背景下的辩论如何在其他背景下被动员和转化;在由全球社区代表参加的国家大会上进行参与观察（包括正式公开会议和利益集团的相关附属会议）; 4.与主要利益相关者（与来自国家教会和LGBT团体的代表以及那些具有跨国联系的人）进行访谈，以审查运营战略，全球网络和新兴的机构配置; 5.在每个节点背景下，在两个对比鲜明的堂区进行教区一级的个案研究，以探讨全球-地方进程的交叉点（通过堂区居民的日常信仰和做法调解全球共融范围内的辩论）。6.与其他非洲代表的会议：为了确保我们抓住了更广泛的“非洲声音”，特别是那些（如埃塞俄比亚人）在本国无法自由发言。（包括：英国广播公司提问时间风格的活动和关于社会地形的国际讲习班），在宗教自由和性别平等问题发生冲突的时刻，该项目将吸引公众和决策者（如平等和人权委员会）的参与。

项目成果

Same sex marriage, civil rights rhetoric, and the ambivalent politics of Christian evangelicalism in New York City

同性婚姻、民权言论以及纽约市基督教福音派的矛盾政治

• DOI: 10.1177/1363460713481718
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Sexualities
• 影响因子: 1.5
• 作者: Andersson J