Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Circulation of Public Religious Speech and the Remaking of Community

博士论文研究：公共宗教言论的流通与社区的重塑

• 批准号: 1155233
• 负责人: Veena Das
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1155233&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Circulation; Public

Johns Hopkins University doctoral student Fouad Halbouni, with the guidance of Dr. Veena Das, will undertake research on the circulation of public religious speech, in the form of sermons, homilies and recorded lessons, from formal religious institutions to less formal public spaces of interaction. He is particularly interested in how such circulation takes place in the aftermath of political upheaval. For the purposes of this project, he will focus on religious ideas in an old popular quarter in Cairo which has a long history of religious plurality. While this plurality is often represented in the media as an oppositional relationship between two monolithic groups, Coptic Orthodox Christians and Muslims, the researcher wishes to investigate the possibility that the two communities are not as monolithic as they are portrayed and that there may be or may develop a plurality of positions regarding questions of the religious "other."The researcher will undertake 12 months of field research in al-Azbakiya, a popular Cairo neighborhood. He will employ multiple social science research methods, including: participant observation and recording at mosque and church sermons; participant observation at local Muslim and Christian teaching institutions; discourse analysis of commercially available sermon recordings; tracking of sermons and the ideas they contain as the sermons move out of the formal sphere to be dispersed and discussed in public venues; focus groups; and interviews with religious officials and lay people.This research is important because its findings will contribute to social scientific understanding of how ideas in general, and public religious speech in particular, may contribute to the making and remaking of political community. Significant public religious speech and political activity co-occur throughout the world. Understanding their relationship is critical for theorists and policy makers alike. Funding this research also contributes to the education of a graduate student.

约翰·霍普金斯大学博士生Fouad Halbouni在Veena Das博士的指导下，将以讲道，同胞和录制的课程的形式进行有关公开宗教演讲的流通研究，从正式的宗教机构到较不正式的公共互动空间。他对在政治动荡之后如何发生这种发行量特别感兴趣。出于该项目的目的，他将重点关注开罗一个古老的宗教宗教思想，该宗教有宗教多数的历史。尽管这种多元化在媒体中通常是两个整体群体之间的对立关系，科普特正统的基督徒和穆斯林之间的对立关系，但研究人员希望调查两个社区不像描绘的那两个社区那样整体，并且可能存在或可能在宗教上有一个关于“其他研究人员”的职位，或者可能会在研究中遇到“其他研究”。他将采用多种社会科学研究方法，包括：在清真寺和教堂讲道中的参与者观察和录音；当地穆斯林和基督教教学机构的参与者观察；商业可用的讲道记录的话语分析；跟踪讲道及其所包含的思想，因为讲道从正式的领域移出以分散和讨论在公共场所；焦点小组；以及对宗教官员和外行人的访谈。这项研究很重要，因为它的发现将有助于社会科学对一般思想，尤其是公共宗教言论的理解，这可能有助于建立和重塑政治社区。全世界大量的公开宗教言论和政治活动共同发生。了解他们的关系对于理论家和政策制定者至关重要。为这项研究提供资金，还有助于对研究生的教育。