Configurations of individual and collective religious identities and their potential for civil society. Representative results for Germany and Switzerland in comparison

该项目涉及的问题是，现代社会中存在哪些社会身份配置，以及这些身份对德国和瑞士的社会融合和社会冲突的影响。我们的两个相互关联的德国-瑞士提案（见双胞胎项目migrentgemeinden， religiöse Identitäten und zivilgesellschaftliche Einbindung）的目的是分析德国和瑞士宗教社会身份的当前配置，重点关注其来源、内容和社会影响。个人和集体宗教身份的定量项目配置及其对公民社会的潜力。相比之下，来自德国和瑞士的代表性结果旨在以全面的方式确定社会，特别是宗教社会身份的自我和外部描述，并调查其来源以及在公民社会和政治中的后果。为此目的，我们开发了一个复杂的问卷调查和复杂的抽样设计。从宗教的实质概念出发，重点关注市民社会中的中间宗教群体及其形成的社会认同。我们认为，宗教身份的实践在德国和瑞士之间显示出强烈的相似性，基于宗教身份的社会群体的分离可以通过不同类型的社会宗教身份配置来解释，这些类型与某些公民和政治态度和行为有关，因此，它们应该对两国的社会生活和政治产生重要影响。

The project deals with the question, which configurations of social identities are present in modern societies and which effects on societal integration and social conflict these identities have in Germany and Switzerland. The aim of our two interlinked German-Switzerland-proposals (see the twinned project Migrantengemeinden, religiöse Identitäten und zivilgesellschaftliche Einbindung) is to analyse current configurations of religious social identities with a focus on their sources, content and societal effects in Germany and Switzerland. The quantitative project configurations of individual and collective religious identities and their potential for the civil society. Representative results from Germany and Switzerland in comparison aims to identify self and external descriptions of social and especially religious social identities in a comprehensive manner and to investigate their sources as well as consequences in civil society and politics. For this aims we develop a complex questionnaire and a complex design of sampling. Starting from a substantial notion of religion, the focus is on intermediate religious groups in civil society and the social identities formed by them. We assume, that the practice of religious identities shows strong similarities between Germany and Switzerland, that the separation of social groups based on religious identities can be explained by types of different configurations of social religious identities, that these types are related to certain civil and political attitudes and behavior and thus and that they should have important consequences for social life and politics in both countries.