Relational Religious Identities: exploring contemporary meanings of religion among Scottish Christian youth

本研究的目的是探索宗教及其意义在当代苏格兰社会中的变化方式。更具体地说，拟议的项目将研究格拉斯哥年轻基督徒的经历方式，并赋予宗教习俗和宗教身份以意义。这项研究是及时的，因为随着整个英国的宗教虔诚度下降，宗教身份在社会的许多领域似乎越来越重要。特别是在苏格兰南部，宗派主义仍然是一个紧迫的社会问题。这项研究的目的是通过考虑青年作为有能力的社会行动者如何参与宗教意义的形成，来赞美和改进宗教意义、身份和变化的当代理论。因此，这里提出的研究也旨在促进制定处理文化多样性和宽容的社会政策。在这项研究中，我们将首先分析当代苏格兰年轻人对宗教和宗教认同的理解。这将包括检查年轻人如何定义宗教，他们如何看待宗教在他们自己的生活和更广泛的社会中是有意义的，以及他们赋予宗教身份的重要性。其次，我们将研究影响这些宗教理解的关键因素，包括家庭、朋友、媒体和其他日常经历。第三，我们将更深入地探讨代际关系对宗教意义和意义概念的影响。这将包括审查家庭如何影响年轻人对自己的宗教和其他宗教的看法，以及这些看法在几代人之间有何不同。数据收集将涉及Q方法，并与来自五个现有基督教组织的青年小组进行参与性绘图。随后将对青少年和监护人进行15次访谈，随后对青少年进行15次一对一访谈。项目成果将包括至少三篇学术论文、一篇政策参与研讨会和执行摘要文件、一篇通俗易懂的文章和一个项目网站。

The aim of this research is to explore the ways in which religion and its meanings are changing in contemporary Scottish society. More specifically, the proposed project will examine the ways that young Christians in Glasgow experience and give meaning to religious practices and religious identities. The research is timely, for as religiosity is declining throughout Britain, religious identity appears to be increasingly important in many spaces of society. In southern Scotland in particular, sectarianism remains a pressing social issues. The study is intended to compliment and improve contemporary theorisations of religious meaning, identity, and change by considering how youth as competent social actors are participating in the making of religious meanings. As such, the research proposed here is also intended to contribute to the formulation of social policies addressing cultural diversity and tolerance.In this study we will first analyse young people's understandings of religion and religious identity in contemporary Scotland. This will involve examining how young people define religion, how they see it being meaningful both in their own lives and in the wider society, and the importance that they ascribe to religious identities. Second, we will examine the key influences which shape these understandings of religion, including family, friends, media, and other everyday experiences. Third, we will explore more deeply the influence of intergenerational relations upon conceptions of religious meaning and significance. This will include an examination of the ways that family influence young people's perspectives of their own religion and other religions, and how these perspectives differ between generations. Data collection will involve Q methodology and participatory mapping with groups of youth from five existing Christian organisations. This will be followed by 15 interviews with young people and a guardian, and 15 subsequent one-on-one interviews with the young people. The outcomes of the project will include a minimum of three academic papers, a policy engagement seminar and executive summary document, a plain-language article, and a project website.