Orthodox Christian Material Ecology and the Sociopolitics of Religion (Renewal)

正统基督教物质生态学和宗教社会政治学（更新）

• 批准号: MR/Y003942/1
• 负责人: Timothy Carroll
• 金额: $ 75.48万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY003942%2F1
• 关键词: Orthodox; Christian; Material; Ecology; Sociopolitics

Aims: This project asks 'What role does the material ecology play in shaping the sociopolitics of Global Orthodoxy?' and in this renewal period pushes this into less obviously material domains of mental health, administration and politics.Impact: Orthodox Christianity is a tradition based on discourse, but there has been very little research looking at the specifics of how that works. Focusing on discourse also tends to over emphasise words and belief. Based on the work of Max Muller, this project insists that religion must start with what is perceived, not with concepts such as belief in the supernatural. This means we situate discursive traditions not in concepts but the material culture of local and global populations. This reframes how we understand religion and forefronts the impact that religious practice has on material aspects like health, the environment and geopolitics.Context: Social scientific interest in religion looks at the variation in the lived religion from one place, compared to another. However there are periods of time - such as from April 2018, after the president of Ukraine asked the Patriarch of Constantinople to intervene in the Russian Church in Ukraine - when religion cannot be studied only in the local expression. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is complicated by historic tensions between local Orthodox Churches and local understandings of shared religious heritage and the buildings, land and bodies that make up that carry that heritage. The materiality of discourse must be seen as central to the form and practice of any given tradition.Research: Framed in terms of three research domains, this project focuses on the material conditions of Global Orthodox sociopolitics, conducting research amongst Orthodox Christians and religious institutions. The project investigates how the properties and affordances of the material ecology (including the body, the built environment, and the wider 'natural' order) shape and are marshalled within the discourse of the Orthodox Churches. This extension focuses on mental health, charity administration and governance as extensions of the previous three domains (the body, the person and the environment) in order to push the findings further and hone the theoretical and methodological approach. The mental health domain looks at current efforts to bring psychological insights about the human person into the practice of the Church in order to address the mental health crisis amongst religious communities. The tension between ancient theological understandings of the person and modern scientific insights gives rise to ongoing efforts to integrate what can be without losing the richness offered by the spiritual tradition that, itself, emphasises a wholistic approach to health. The charity administration and finance domain takes a diachronic and synchronic approach to the diverse ethnic and historical conditions by which the various Orthodox jurisdictions came to be established in the United Kingdom. As different immigration waves arrived in the UK, migrants formed 'diaspora' churches in different ways in order to meet their religious and wider social needs. This domain looks at the tensions between charity law in the UK and the church law concerning proper church order, as well as the ethics of money management and the ways decisions about charity/Church administration are made. The final domain, of policy and governance focuses on how different local Churches - for example in the UK, Greece, Russia, Cyprus, Syria, and Nigeria - relate to each other and how these Churches relate to their own governments and, often on the behalf of persecuted Churches, other foreign governments.Output: This project will produce three academic books, six academic articles, and - through partnership with the local Church charities - policy guidelines and toolkits to help address the issues relating to the first two research domains.

目标：该项目询问“物质生态在塑造全球正统社会政治方面发挥什么作用？”在这个更新时期，将其推向心理健康、行政和政治等不太明显的物质领域。 影响：东正教是一种基于话语的传统，但很少有研究关注其运作的细节。关注话语也往往会过度强调言语和信仰。该项目以马克斯·穆勒（Max Muller）的作品为基础，坚持认为宗教必须从感知的事物开始，而不是从对超自然的信仰等概念开始。这意味着我们不是将话语传统置于概念中，而是将其置于当地和全球人口的物质文化中。这重新定义了我们对宗教的理解，并突出了宗教实践对健康、环境和地缘政治等物质方面的影响。背景：对宗教的社会科学兴趣着眼于一个地方与另一个地方相比，生活宗教的变化。然而，有一段时间——例如从 2018 年 4 月乌克兰总统要求君士坦丁堡宗主教干预乌克兰俄罗斯教会之后——宗教不能仅以当地的表达形式进行研究。由于当地东正教教会与当地对共同宗教遗产以及承载该遗产的建筑物、土地和机构的理解之间的历史紧张关系，乌克兰持续不断的冲突变得更加复杂。话语的物质性必须被视为任何特定传统的形式和实践的核心。 研究：该项目以三个研究领域为框架，重点关注全球正统社会政治学的物质条件，在正统基督徒和宗教机构之间进行研究。该项目研究了物质生态（包括身体、建筑环境和更广泛的“自然”秩序）的属性和可供性如何在东正教教堂的话语中形成和整理。本次扩展重点关注心理健康、慈善管理和治理，作为前三个领域（身体、个人和环境）的延伸，以进一步推动研究结果并磨练理论和方法论。心理健康领域着眼于当前将人类心理洞察带入教会实践的努力，以解决宗教社区中的心理健康危机。古代神学对人的理解与现代科学见解之间的紧张关系引发了人们不断努力，以整合可能的东西，同时又不失去精神传统所提供的丰富性，而精神传统本身则强调整体健康方法。慈善管理和财务领域对英国建立各种东正教管辖区的不同种族和历史条件采取历时和共时的方法。随着不同的移民浪潮抵达英国，移民以不同的方式组建“侨民”教堂，以满足他们的宗教和更广泛的社会需求。该领域着眼于英国慈善法与教会法之间关于适当教会秩序的紧张关系，以及资金管理的道德和慈善/教会管理决策的方式。最后一个领域，即政策和治理，重点关注不同地方教会——例如英国、希腊、俄罗斯、塞浦路斯、叙利亚和尼日利亚——如何相互关系，以及这些教会如何与自己的政府以及通常在成果：该项目将出版三本学术书籍、六篇学术文章，并通过与当地教会慈善机构合作，制定政策指南和工具包，以帮助解决与前两个研究领域相关的问题。