Bible Performances: An Empirical-Qualitative Study about the Use of the Bible in Christian-Religious Practices

在以圣经为基础的宗教中，宗教认同、意义创造和方向是通过使用和引用神圣的文本来实现的。在宗教转型（世俗化、多元化、个性化、重新神圣化）的推动下，这些做法及其提供身份和方向的方式正在发生变化。我们的项目将分析这些做法在基督教背景下的当代表现和意义。研究将集中在“圣经”的表现-书籍作为物质对象（物质性），并在引用文本和他们的基督教传统（文本参考）的行为。三个背景将被仔细审查：“仪式”（崇拜服务），“宗教教育”（教会为基础的教育），和小圣经团体（集体宗教）。数据将通过对瑞士和德国的罗马天主教、路德教/改革宗和自由教会/非基督教社区的研究产生。这是第一次，新的录像和民族志方法，通过跨学科的分析，将被应用到圣经在不同背景下的实际使用。解开忏悔和文化特质，将允许一个更深刻和全面的理论化的物质表现，意义，和效果的表现，使用和调用圣经文本所带来的。因此，一个全面的圣经表演分类可以产生和他们的宗教和文化确定的促进可以整理。为了分析“圣经表演”，我们将展示（非）物质性的相互渗透，即在口头上的引用，与不同的物质性，即在使用书籍，平板电脑，或视频投影。我们的分析并没有将数字化转型仅仅视为非物质化，而是将所有文本参考性和媒体化的实践视为同样普遍。从实践神学和international语言学的交叉工作，我们将探索和开发数据收集，在录像中使用的三角测量方法，并有助于在神学研究的视觉，表演，材料和实践转向。一个归纳描述和多角度的方法将揭示当代圣经表演的状态和形状。在说话和身体表现的行为分析圣经文本将结合到构建和分配（圣经书）知识的文化过程的研究。这将创造对基于圣经的教育和宗教（群体）身份的洞察力。该项目将讨论有关宗教物质文化和“神圣文本”在当代文化中的社会宗教影响的辩论。系统地对比各个项目并比较不同的背景，同时产生新的数据，将提供不同宗教传统中不同形式的当代圣经表演，产生当今圣经相关性的流行理论。

In scripture-based religions, religious identification, meaning-making, and orientation is achieved by using and referencing ,sacred texts’. Fuelled by religious transformation (secularisation, pluralisation, individualisation, re-sacralisation) those practices and the ways that they provide identities and orientation are changing. Our project will analyse contemporary manifestations and significance of those practices within the context of Christianity. Research will focus on performances of “Bible”-books as material objects (materiality), and on acts of referencing texts and their Christian traditions (text-referentiality). Three contexts will be scrutinised: ‚ritual’ (worship services), ‚religious education’ (church based education), and small bible groups (collective religiosity). Data will be generated by the study of Roman Catholic, Lutheran/Reformed and Free-Church/non-denominational communities in Switzerland and Germany. For the first time new methods of videography and ethnography, informed by transdisciplinary analyses will be applied to actual uses of the bible in different contexts. Unpacking confessional and cultural idiosyncrasies, will allow for a more profound and comprehensive theorisation of material manifestations, signification, and effects which performances of using and invoking biblical texts entail. Thus, a comprehensive taxonomy of Bible performances can be generated and their denominationally and culturally determined facilitation can be collated. In order to analyse ‘Bible performances’, we will show the interpenetration of (im-)materialities, i.e. in verbal reference, with different corporalities, i.e. in the use of books, tablets, or video projections. Rather than dismissing digital transformations as mere de-materialisation, our analysis sees all practices of text-referentiality and mediatisation as equally pervasive. Working from the intersection of Practical Theology and Interactional Linguistics, we will explore and develop data collection, triangulating methods used in videography and contribute to the visual, performative, material, and practice turns in theological research. An inductive-descriptive and multiperspective approach will reveal the state and shape of contemporary Bible performances. Analysing biblical texts within acts of speaking and physical performances will be combined with research into the cultural processes of constructing and dispensing (Bible-book-)knowledge. This will create insight into Bible-based education and religious (group-)identities. The project will address debates concerning religious material culture and the socio-religious impact of ‚sacred texts’ in contemporary culture. Systematically contrasting the individual projects and comparing different contexts, whilst generating fresh data, will provide access to different forms of contemporary bible performances in diverse religious traditions, producing a prevailing theorisation of the relevance of the Bible today.