Migration and Visual Culture: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Catholic Imagery and Popular culture among Polish Young

该项目将通过研究移民到英国的波兰年轻人的视觉文化，介绍当代英国信仰如何变化的新视角。这项研究将探讨宗教身份在多大程度上支持这些年轻人，作为社会和神学资本，通过移民的经验，而同时它是重新配置和重新谈判有关介导的流行文化。视觉研究方法将被用来检查从流行文化和天主教传统的图像图像是身份和波兰移民青年的身份来源。这项研究将开发新的方法来研究宗教在英国从视觉研究方法，文化研究和神学得出。本研究是通过从文化研究中对身份和表征如何相互关联的理解以及对流行的神学意义的阅读来形成的。这种跨学科的方法是创新的，首先是因为它将宗教表达和流行文化作为塑造年轻人视觉文化的相互关联的表现流的一部分。这项研究将审查代表性的流动，因为它是与宗教身份相结合。第二，它是重要的，因为它试图把表征和表征的运作方式都解读为神学上重要的认同来源。该项目将视觉研究方法与实践神学的观点相结合。这种神学方法不仅有助于了解英国的年轻人和宗教，而且还被设计为实践神学的一种协作性和变革性方法。因此，通过参与研究过程以及数据的分析和呈现，年轻人，研究人员和部长级和社区艺术专业人员将共同合作，以便他们将发展对英国信仰转变性质的理解。以及结合定性的研究方法，神学和理论的角度从文化研究中得出的它是一个特点的建议是，它包括了大量的艺术元素。因此，作为研究的一部分，通过各种活动，年轻人将开发一个视觉材料组合，并在天主教大教堂举行的艺术展上展示他们的作品。该项目支持一名新研究人员的工作，该项目是与普利茅斯天主教教区的部长级专业人员和普利茅斯艺术中心的社区艺术家合作设计的。

This project will introduce new perspectives on how faith is changing in contemporary Britain by studying the visual culture of Polish young people who have migrated to the UK. The research will explore the extent to which religious identity supports these young people, as both social and theological capital, through the experience of migration while at the same time it is reconfigured and renegotiated in relation to a mediated popular culture. Visual research methods will be used to examine both imagery from popular culture and imagery from the Catholic tradition are sources of identity and identification for Polish migrant young people. The research will develop new ways to study religion in the UK drawn from visual research methods, cultural studies and theology. The research is shaped by an understanding of how identity and representation interrelate drawn from cultural studies and by a reading of the popular as theologically significant. This interdisciplinary approach is innovative firstly because it deals with both religious expression and popular culture as part of an interrelated flow of representation that shapes the visual culture of young people. The research will examine the flow of representation as it is articulated with religious identity. Secondly it is significant because it seeks to read both the representation and the way that representation operates as a source for identification as theologically significant. The project combines visual research methods with perspectives from Practical Theology. This theological approach will not only contribute to the understanding of young people and religion in Britain but it is also designed as a collaborative and transformative approach to Practical Theology. So through participation in the research process and also the analysis and presentation of data young people, researchers and ministerial and community arts professionals will collaborate together in order that they will develop their understanding of the shifting nature of belief in the UK. As well as combining qualitative research methods, theology and theoretical perspectives drawn from cultural studies the it is a feature of the proposal is that it includes a substantial artistic element. Thus as part of the research through a variety of activities young people will develop a portfolio of visual material and present their work at an art exhibition to be held in the Catholic Cathedral.The project supports the work of a new researcher and it has been designed with the collaboration of ministerial professionals from the Catholic Diocese of Plymouth and community artists from the Plymouth Arts Centre.