Religion, Martyrdom and Global Uncertainties 1914-2014

宗教、殉难和全球不确定性 1914-2014

基本信息

批准号：
ES/K00025X/1
负责人：
John Wolffe
金额：
$ 36.66万
依托单位：
The Open University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK00025X%2F1
关键词：
Religion Martyrdom Global Uncertainties 1914

项目摘要

The leadership programme proposes a focus on concepts of religion as a pivot for bringing together wider issues in the Ideologies and Beliefs strand of Global Uncertainties itself, and in related AHRC and ESRC programmes. Since 9/11 religious issues have been prominent both in popular and journalistic perceptions of security and in academic enquiry, but informed synthesis regarding the importance of religion relative to other factors remains in short supply. The leadership activities will seek to integrate key insights from relevant projects, exploring both the various understanding of religion and quasi-religion (in relation to ideologies such as nationalism and Islamism), and weighing their importance against other non-religious factors. The programme will achieve an authoritative pooling of substantial and diverse expertise, distilled and presented in an accessible and engaged manner to users in religious leadership, public and NGO policy and practice and the media. Work will proceed in three phases. First, there will be telephone interviews with researchers designed to highlight key insights from their work and to elucidate complementary and contrasting perspectives. The outcomes from these interviews will be summarized in an initial working paper. Second, the working paper will be disseminated; user responses gathered through two seminars and the project website; and selected researchers will attend a symposium intended to distil insights and implications for users and to present them in an accessible form. Third, a widely-circulated hardcopy summary of the outcomes together with online video resources will be made available to users, who will be invited to attend one of a series of seminars to be held at various locations around the UK at which the implications of the work will be further discussed and developed. The research project will examine the development of the concept of martyrdom and sacrificial death in Britain and Ireland since the outbreak of the First World War. Such an enquiry will help to balance the preoccupation of researchers since 9/11 in 2001 with Islamic views of martyrdom/suicide attacks by a focus on the Christian and culturally Christian context, which remains under-researched in this period. There will be two main methods. First, there will be archival, library, and web-based research on historic sources, including books and pamphlets, newspapers and online databases, supplemented as necessary by site visits. Particular focal points will be the First World War, including the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, and the 1920 interment of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey; the Second World War, including Nazi persecution of European Christians, and the early 1980s, including the IRA hunger strikes and the Falklands War. Second, there will be a series of semi-structured interviews with political and religious activists, carried out in partnership with the Institute for Conflict Research in Belfast, in four contrasting locations in Britain and Ireland - Belfast, Bradford, Dublin and London. They will explore contemporary perceptions of historic 'martyrdom' events in the run up to the centenaries of 1914 and 1916; recollections of the early 1980s; and responses to present-day suicide attacks, sectarian murders in Northern Ireland, and casualties in Afghanistan. The outcomes will feed into the programme of leadership activities outlined above, and will be publicised through the website and discussed in the programme seminars. They will also result in journal articles, an academic monograph, and articles contributing to public debate. The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War (4 August 2014) will occur in the final months of the project and offer particular opportunities for dissemination and media interest. The programme will be guided by an advisory group which will offer wide experience of public engagement and strong networks for securing non-academic impact.

领导力计划将重点放在宗教的概念上，这是将全球不确定性本身以及相关AHRC和ESRC计划的意识形态和信念链中整合更广泛问题的枢纽。由于9/11宗教问题在对安全和学术询问中的流行和新闻认知中都很突出，但是关于宗教相对于其他因素的重要性的综合知识仍然很短。领导活动将寻求将相关项目的关键见解融为一体，探索对宗教和准宗教的各种理解（就民族主义和伊斯兰主义等意识形态而言），并权衡其重要性与其他非宗教因素。该计划将对宗教领导，公共和非政府组织政策和实践以及媒体的用户以及媒体以及媒体的用户以及媒体的用户进行权威的汇集，蒸馏和介绍。工作将分为三个阶段。首先，将对研究人员进行电话采访，旨在突出其工作中的关键见解，并阐明互补和对比的观点。这些访谈的结果将在最初的工作文件中总结。其次，工作文件将被传播；通过两个研讨会和项目网站收集的用户响应；精选的研究人员将参加一场研讨会，旨在散布对用户的见解和影响，并以可访问的形式展示。第三，将向用户提供广泛回旋的硬拷贝摘要以及在线视频资源，他们将被邀请参加在英国各地的各个地点举行的一系列研讨会之一，并将进一步讨论和开发工作的含义。自第一次世界大战爆发以来，该研究项目将研究英国和爱尔兰的the难和牺牲死亡的概念的发展。自2001年9/11以来，这种询问将有助于平衡研究人员的关注，并通过对基督教和文化基督教背景的关注，在此期间研究不足。将有两种主要方法。首先，将进行有关历史资源的档案，图书馆和基于网络的研究，包括书籍和小册子，报纸和在线数据库，并根据需要进行现场访问来补充。特定的焦点将是第一次世界大战，包括1916年在都柏林的复活节崛起，以及1920年威斯敏斯特大教堂未知战士的葬礼。第二次世界大战，包括纳粹对欧洲基督徒的迫害，以及1980年代初，包括IRA饥饿罢工和福克兰群岛战争。其次，将在英国和爱尔兰的四个对比地点 - 贝尔法斯特，布拉德福德，都柏林和伦敦，与贝尔法斯特的冲突研究所合作，对政治和宗教活动家进行了一系列半结构化访谈。他们将在1914年和1916年的百年来探索对历史性“ thro虫”事件的当代看法。 1980年代初期的回忆；以及对当今自杀袭击，北爱尔兰的宗派谋杀案以及阿富汗伤亡的反应。结果将涉及上面概述的领导活动计划，并将通过网站公开并在计划研讨会中进行讨论。它们还将导致期刊文章，学术专着以及有助于公开辩论的文章。第一次世界大战爆发的百年（2014年8月4日）将发生在该项目的最后几个月中，并为传播和媒体兴趣提供了特殊的机会。该计划将由一个咨询小组指导，该小组将提供广泛的公众参与体验和强大的网络，以确保非学术影响。