Small Grant for Exploratory Research: Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Traumas of Modernization?

该项目用于紧急资助，以便在巴基斯坦和孟加拉国开展的世界价值观调查(WVS)中进行更多访谈。这些面谈使用了为伊斯兰社会设计的WVS面谈时间表，并增加了补充问题，以衡量对最近在纽约市和华盛顿特区发生的恐怖袭击的赞成或反对。调查还评估了此类袭击是否被视为符合伊斯兰教义。研究人员还探讨了对民主制度的支持和与西方联系的开放性。现有的WVS问卷调查了每个社会的基本价值观和世界观，而不涉及当前的政治问题。加上一系列衡量对恐怖主义态度和与西方关系的问题，就有可能分析这些取向与伊斯兰信仰体系中持久的核心元素之间的关联程度，以及它们可能正在发生变化的程度。在伊朗、埃及和约旦进行的试点调查发现，民主得到了令人惊讶的广泛支持，而且有迹象表明，对社会和政治自由化的支持在代际之间发生了变化。这笔用于探索性研究调查的小额赠款非常及时，将大大增强我们对这一非常重要的主题的理解。

This project is for emergency funding to carry out additional interviews in the World Values Surveys (WVS) being carried out in Pakistan and Bangladesh. These interviews use the version of the WVS interview schedule designed for Islamic societies, and adds supplementary questions to measure approval or disapproval of the recent terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. The investigation also assesses whether such attacks are seen as compatible with Islamic teachings. The researchers also probe into support for democratic institutions and openness to ties with the West.The existing WVS questionnaire explores the basic values and worldviews of each society without touching on current political issues. Adding a battery of questions measuring attitudes toward terrorism and relations with the West makes it possible to analyze the extent to which these orientations are linked with enduring core elements of Islamic belief systems, and the extent to which they may be changing. The pilot surveys conducted in Iran, Egypt and Jordan found surprisingly widespread support for democracy and indications of an intergenerational change in the direction of growing support for social and political liberalization.This Small Grant for Exploratory Research investigation is extremely timely and will enhance substantially our understanding of this very important topic.