H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2023

RELCAPETOWN · Religious Super-Diversity in Cape Town. Dynamics of Leadership and Territorialization Through Religious Spaces in the Migration Process.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-06-01 → 2023-05-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 212 434 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Религиозното разнообразие в Кейптаун се анализира чрез връзката между миграцията и ролята на църквите и храмовете в града. Това помага да се разбере как вярата, образованието и доходите влияят върху градската среда и отношенията с институциите.

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Резултати накратко

Religious Super-Diversity in Cape Town. Dynamics of Leadership and Territorialization Through Religious Spaces in the Migration Process.

Through an anthropological research, this project explored the interaction between religions and migration in specific areas of Cape Town, South Africa, from the perspective of the “religious super-diversity” notion. The research deals with social, cultural, and political roles of religious places and communities. It aims to shed light on the implications of religion and the dynamics of religious leadership and hierarchy upon urban spaces, the public sphere, and relations with institutions. In 2007 Steven Vertovec introduced into social science theories the category of super-diversity. As a starting point, it provides a challenging scope on the South African cities. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, Cape Town and South Africa have been experiencing new migration patterns, which present wide super-diverse societies, with multiple identities and constantly changing religious urbanscapes. The purpose of the project was to use religious belonging and adherence to plot the religious South African and Capetonian landscape in connection with other indicators emerging from census data, such as population groups, migration patterns, average annual household income, and level of education. My ambition was to show that religious superdiversity can encompass diverse methods of analysis—such as qualitative and quantitative ones—that consider the interaction among religious characters and other demographic indicators, through official statistics, charts, parameters, and inquiries.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project explores the interaction between religions and migration in specific areas of Cape Town, South Africa, from the perspective of the “religious super-diversity” notion, which considers not merely the diversity of cultures brought by migration, rather their visibility in cities with more diversities and multiple identities, involving race, ethnicity, legal status, age, and gender, but also generating conflicts and exchanges of knowledge among cultures. Added to the “religious super-diversity” is the spatial relationship between religious communities and their places of worship and the urban environment. This project will focus on the strategy of the “religious super-diversity’s place building”, according to which each religious community interacts with territory, social context, institutions, and other religious communities, promoting new processes in which diversity and religious pluralism involve a civic dimension, the religious agency of migrant groups and social cohesion. The areas of Cape Town known as Subcouncils 15, 16 and 20 have been selected for the impressive presence of old and recent migrants’ religious places (different Christian churches, Synagogues, Mosques, Hindu Temples, etc.). Although official statistics reveal low percentages of regular foreign immigrants (1%), the numerous “national” religious places in Cape Town and the kind of responses they offer to migrants suggest a different picture. This project suggests the super-diversity perspective provides a ground-breaking focus on religious cohabitation in Cape Town that is still lacking. Dynamics of leadership and territorialisation will be investigated through an analysis of the religious sites, whose role in the environment will provide new indicators about religious conflicts and social benefits. To this end, a fieldwork will be achieved on the basis of an updated methodology based on ethnographic inquiry, empirical and comparative study of religious actors and movements.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · RomaКоординаторИталия
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN · RondeboschЮжна Африка