Immigrant Communities, Religious Identities and incorporation in Civil Society: Comparative Qualitative Insights for Germany and Switzerland

这一定性研究项目的目的是分析不同的宗教移民社区在身份建设和公民融合方面的进程。该项目与其姊妹项目个人和集体宗教特性以及民间社会潜力的结构密切相关。该量化项目将在大规模评估的基础上，分析社会和宗教特性的外部和自我分类及其对民间社会的影响。定性和定量项目共同弥补了在民间社会日益重要和宗教日益多元化的背景下，对宗教社区集体特性的影响进行详细描述和分析的不足。此外，合并后的任务是，宗教社区集体特性的永久化对当代政治和现代民主社会的连贯性产生哪些后果。目前的定性研究项目侧重于分析宗教移民社区集体身份建设的适应和改变战略及其对民间社会的影响。在两个国家确定的区域研究波斯尼亚移民穆斯林和克罗地亚天主教徒的示范案例的比较设计意在从外部和自我归属的角度分析属于一个宗教团体的问题。该项目的关键假设是，在西欧，社会上构建的社会接受的宗教观念具有主导作用，以便获得社会合法性和认可度。该项目的附加值及其与量化项目的密切联系是为了加强对宗教和宗教社区在民主民间社会和社会融合进程中的作用和影响的了解。

The aim of this qualitative research project is to analyse diverse religious immigrant communities with respect to their processes of identity construction and civic integration. The project is closely linked to its sister project Configuration of individual and collective religious identities and civil society potentials. The quantitative project will analyse external and self-categorisations of social and religious identities and their impact on civil society on the basis of a large-scale assessment. The qualitative and the quantitative projects jointly address the lacuna of a detailed description and analysis of the impact of collective identities of religious communities in the context of a growing importance of civil society and an increasing plurality of religions. In addition, the combined undertaking asks which consequences arise from the perpetuation of collective identities of religious communities for contemporary politics and the coherence of modern democratic societies. The present qualitative research project focuses on analysing the strategies of adaptation and change of collective identity constructions of religious immigrant communities and their impact in civil society. The comparative design of researching the exemplary cases of immigrant Bosnian Muslims and Croatian Catholics in defined regions in two countries intends to analyse questions of belonging to a religious group in view of external and self-ascriptions. The key assumption of the project is that in western Europe the societally constructed idea of a socially accepted religion takes on lead orientation in order to gain societal legitimacy and recognition. The added value of this project and its close linkage with the quantitative project is to enhance the understanding of the role and impact of religion and religious communities both in democratic civil societies and processes of social integration.