Metamorphoses of Solidarity. Church Youth Associations and the Third World Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s and 1980s

这一研究项目的目的是审查西德教会青年协会作为第三世界运动的一部分的作用和活动，以及这些协会与这一运动之间的相互关系。通过这样做，它试图有助于更好地了解1970年代和1980年代社会和宗教变化条件下新的社会运动的结构、机制和社会支柱。研究集中于三个相互关联的问题：第一，教会青年协会在第三世界运动中的地位，取决于它们与运动的其他部分和推动者的关系以及他们的自我概念；第二，协会的运动参与与其在教会结构中的状况之间的相互依存，其中它们也可以被视为教会内的运动；第三，从社会化的角度审视运动参与以及社会化的政治和宗教层面之间的关系。研究的主要对象将是德国天主教青年联合会(BDKJ)和新教青年协会(AEJ)作为伞形组织。这一中级水平的观察允许跟踪教会青年运动参与的一般发展，并将其与既定教会组织的内在逻辑联系起来，以及考虑教派因素或教派间的相关性。在研究方法上，本研究采用了社会化和组织理论视角的社会运动研究方法。

The aim of this research project is to examine the role and activity of church youth associations in West Germany as a part of the Third World Movement as well as the reciprocal relations between the associations and this movement. In doing so, it attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the structures, mechanisms and social anchorage of new social movements under the terms of societal and religious change in the 1970s and 1980s. The study focuses on three interconnected questions: first, the position of church youth associations within the Third World Movement conditioned by their relation to the other parts and agents of the movement and by their self-conception; second, interdependency between the movement participation of the associations and their situation inside church structures whereat they can be also considered as movements within the churches; third, the movement participation examined from socialization perspective and the relationship between political and religious dimensions of socialization. The main objects of the study will be the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) and the Protestant Youth Association (aej) as umbrella organisations. This intermediate level of observation allows to follow the general development of church youth movement participation and to put it in relation to the inner logic of the established church organisation as well as to regard the relevance of denominational factors or interdenominationality. In terms of methodology, the study adopts approaches of social movement research including socialization and organisation theory perspectives.