Sacred communities:connected practices across time and place. A joint review and scoping study.

该项目的目的是联合审查来自两个不同项目的现有定性和定量数据，提供关于日常宗教和归属背景下扎根和具体的社区做法的新见解。研究人员与新的和以前的研究参与者进行知识交流和对话，参与类似研究的其他研究人员以及这里所代表的核心学科以外的更广泛的学术网络，主要是人类学和地理学。这种合作是有益的，允许相互接触和对宗教，地方，空间和信仰的重要见解。在信仰、社区和生命历程等术语中，隐含着更大的空间、时间、地点、肉体和情感的交织叙事。总之，我们发现，要理解地方、“社区”和“信仰”的差异和交叉，就需要理解社会“相关性”，包括关系形成、体验、调解和传播的社会边界。有必要对社区志愿人员和积极分子，特别是老年妇女和青年人有时看不见的作用进行进一步研究，可能要进行跨文化研究。

The project's purpose was to jointly review existing qualitative and quantitative data from two separate projects, providing new insights on grounded and embodied community practices in the context of everyday religion and belonging. Researchers engaged in knowledge exchange and dialogue with new and former research participants, other researchers involved in similar research and wider academic networks beyond the core disciplines represented here, principally anthropology and geography.Key concluding themes related to the ambivalent nature of 'faith'; connections over place and time and the contested nature of community. The collaboration was useful to allow mutual engagements and important insights about religion, place, space, and faith. Implicit in terms like faith, community and life course are larger interwoven narratives of space, time, place, corporeality and emotion. In conclusion, we found that understanding how places, 'communities' and 'faiths' differ and intersect requires an understanding of social 'relatedness', including the social boundaries through which relationships are formed, experienced, mediated and transmitted. Further research is necessary, potentially cross-culturally, on the sometimes invisible roles of community volunteers and activists, particularly older women and young people.