Configurations of Islam and Muslims in Germany on a local level

该项目的基础是，穆斯林和伊斯兰教的身份越来越多地被协商，并成为德国地方和市政一级的重要类别，从而在特定的地方和城市环境中以新的方式受到影响和塑造。正是在地方一级，伊斯兰教变得最明显，这是一个地方政策和行政问题，在那里，一部分人口被称为穆斯林，穆斯林和非穆斯林之间的关系在互动中形成。该项目正在解决一个研究差距，因为迄今为止，科学辩论往往要么集中在国家一级，要么集中在与伊斯兰教有关的陈述和政策上，或者仅仅集中在个人身份建立过程上。在Erlangen和Osnabrück两个详细案例研究的基础上，在四个紧密相连的工作包(WPS)的过程中，该项目将比较分析穆斯林和伊斯兰教的两种地方结构，将地方视角纳入更广泛的德国背景。首先，WP1仔细审查了德国关于穆斯林和伊斯兰教的超地方话语和决定的中心时刻，并制定了案例研究框架。与此同时，它询问穆斯林和伊斯兰教是否以及在多大程度上正在成为德国主要城市市政政治和管理实践的对象。WP2分析了从1970年至今埃尔兰根和奥斯纳布吕克的具体地方发展道路，并询问穆斯林和伊斯兰教在地方上何时、何地、以何种方式显露出来或以何种方式显露出来。WP3采取了更多的人种学观点，并将审查穆斯林和伊斯兰教日常配置的当前做法和场所。它探讨了成为穆斯林主体的过程(以及重塑这种身份的过程)如何与当地环境相联系，例如与当地有组织的伊斯兰教或当地社区政治相联系。令人感兴趣的是，最近在这两个案例研究中刚刚建立了新的伊斯兰神学研究所，因此WP3也在询问伊斯兰教在地方一级的学术制度化的条件和效果。WP4最后通过审查另外#个德国地方背景，进一步说明了案例研究的背景。通过应用这一全面而广泛的视角，该项目有望为德国关于伊斯兰教的社会政治辩论提供新的见解，这也可能与市政政治的实践有关。该项目定位于一场关于宗教对城市、后世俗社会和社区身份政治安排的(新)意义的动态和多学科讨论，到目前为止，这一直是一场以英语为主的辩论。因此，在德国的科学背景下，它丰富了社会和城市地理学领域，以及移民和宗教地理学以及各自的邻近学科领域。

The project is based on the observation that the identities Muslim and Islam are increasingly negotiated and becoming significant categories at a local and municipal level in Germany, thus being affected and shaped, that is, configurated, in new ways within specific local and urban contexts. It is the local level, where Islam becomes most visible and an issue of local policies and administration, where a part of the population is addressed as muslim, where the relations between muslims and non-muslims are configurated in interactions. The project is addressing a research gap, as the scientific debate, so far, has tended to concentrate either on the national level, if dealing with Islam-related representations and policies, or exclusively on individual identity-building processes. On the basis of two detailed case-studies, Erlangen and Osnabrück, and in the course of four closely interlocked work-packages (WPs) the project is going to analyse comparatively two local configurations of Muslims and Islam, integrating the local perspective in a wider German context. At first, WP1 scrutinizes central moments of supra-local discourses and decisions on Muslims and Islam in Germany, framing the case studies. At the same time, it asks if and to what extend Muslims and Islam are becoming objects of municipal politics and administration practices in German major cities. WP2 analyzes specific local paths of development in Erlangen and Osnabrück from 1970 until today and asks, when, where and in what ways Muslims and Islam had become visible or had been made visible on a local level. WP3 takes a more ethnographic perspective, and will examine current practices and places of everyday configurations of Muslims and Islam. It explores how the processes of becoming a Muslim subject (and of reshaping such identities) are connected to local contexts, e.g. to a locally organized Islam or local communal politics. Here, it is of interest that new Islamic-theological Institutes were just recently established in both case-studies, so that WP3 is also asking for the conditions and effects of that academic institutionalization of Islam at a local level. WP4 finally further contextualizes the case-studies by examining additional# German local contexts. Through the application of this overall wide perspective the project promises new insights for the socio-political debate on Islam in Germany that could also be relevant for the practice of municipal politics. The project locates itself within a dynamic and multi-disciplinary discussion on the (new) meanings of religion for the arrangement of urban, post-secular societies and communal politics of identity that has been a predominantly English-speaking debate so far. For the German scientific context, it thus enriches the fields of Social and Urban Geography as well as the fields of a Geography of Migration and Religion and respective neighbouring disciplines.