Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Looking Within and Between: Women and Religious Transformations in Mozambique

研究生克里斯蒂·舒策将在桑德拉·巴恩斯博士的指导下，研究莫桑比克宗教参与度的上升与政治和经济生活之间的关系。五旬节派--超凡魅力的教会已经发展壮大，并在第三世界的大部分地区传播开来。在莫桑比克，他们是在非基督教灵媒兴起的同时做到这一点的。该项目将在这两个截然不同的背景下进行研究，重点放在最突出和数量最多的参与者身上。这使得一个自然的实验可以调查宗教信仰传播的原因和后果，以及不同宗教运动之间的关系。这项研究将包括一项150户家庭的调查，以了解信仰不同宗教的群体之间的差异。随后将深入采访这两种传统中的每一种20名妇女。研究人员还将咨询附近一所大学的档案和专家。随着宗教与当前政治、经济和社会生活的相关性日益增强，探索宗教变革如何与发现它们的背景相关联变得更加迫切。这项研究将提供一个不同的角度来探讨由全球经济和政治变革所塑造的动荡的社会背景。它将使人们深入了解当前经济全球化的各个方面对妇女可能产生的不同影响。

Graduate student Christy Schuetze, supervised by Dr. Sandra Barnes, will undertake research on the relationship between the rise of religious participation and political and economic life in Mozambique. Pentecostal-Charismatic churches have grown and spread throughout much of the third world. In Mozambique, they have done so in parallel with the rise of non-Christian spirit-mediumship. This project will conduct research across these two contrasting contexts, unified by a focus on women who are the most prominent and numerous participants. This permits a natural experiment to investigate the causes and consequences of the spread of religiosity, and the relationship between different religious movements. The research will include a 150-household survey to understand differences between the groups who practice different religions. This will be followed by in-depth interviews with 20 women in each of the two traditions. The researcher also will consult archives and experts at a nearby university. As the relevance of religion to current political, economic, and social life grows, it is becoming more imperative to explore how religious transformations are entangled with the contexts in which they are found. This research will offer a different angle from which to approach turbulent social contexts shaped by global economic and political transformations. It will give insight into how women may be differentially affected by current aspects of economic globalization.