H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2023

SAVIJU · Saharan Visions of Jesus. Poetics of Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions

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

Период: 2020-08-15 → 2023-08-14
Финансиране от ЕС: 248 426 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Религиозните преходи от ислям към християнство в Сахара, например сред туарегите, разкриват как се променят вярванията в този регион. Това помага да се разберат гласовете на малцинствата и влиянието на религията върху конфликтите в Мали и Нигер.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Saharan Visions of Jesus. Poetics of Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions

The action" Saharan Visions of Jesus" (SAVIJU project) aims to investigate the unexplored topic of contemporary Saharan conversions to Christianity, in order to show the complexity and the polysemy of Saharan religious dynamics, focusing on individuality and the concept of “agency”. The challenge of this project is to write the “hidden histories”, the silenced and alternative voices of Saharan Christians and to revise the common narrative and Western taken-for-granted understandings of Saharan religious practices as a uniquely Islamic. SAVIJU aims at laying the groundwork for a fresh and innovative appreciation of this area through the unusual prism of the politics and poetics of Saharan Christianity. The main objectif is providing the tools aimed at increasing visibility and recognition of this religious minority. In addition, This MSCA project raises some fundamental questions about the way in which these rigidly hierarchical nomadic societies manage “religious pluralism” and tolerance for individual choice particularly among subaltern groups (such as former slaves and women). Formal objective of this Marie Skłodowska Curie Action (MSCA) has been to analyze the connections between Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions, pastoral origin Saharan minorities (Tuareg, Berabish, Chaanba) and the conflictual situation in the Sahara/Sahel. SAVIJU project aims at offering an alternative view of the recent conflicts in Mali and Niger by recounting events from the point of view of the Christian Saharan populations and analyzing the indigenization process of various types of Christianity (Evangelism, Pentecotism, Catholicism) in the contemporary Sahara. Through the Fellow’s research valuable new understandings are emerging related to how these conversions constitute a reaction to the jihadism to which the local populations have been subjected, not only because of the occupation of their lands and the forced application of Sharia law but also because of the effects it has had on every-day family-life. In studying interconnections between Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions, marginalized minorities, postconflict situation in Sahel, poetics of religious conversions, the SAVIJU project tackles an original and unexplored topic.

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

Цел на проекта

xMy project aims to study the connections between Muslim-to-Christian religious conversions, the Saharan pastoral minorities (Tuareg, Berabish, Chaanba, Kunta) in Mali and in Niger and the post-conflict situation in Sahel through the unusual prism of oral poetry. The various Christian churches use television, radio, the mobile phone and the internet to spread their messages and thus increase their congregations. As a result, an impressive number of studies focuses on religious transformations and media, on the appropriation of technologies by religious groups or on popular arts and religions in Africa.3 But at present, qualitative research on the intersection of African Christianity and Saharan oral poetry, considered as the most relevant and prestigious nomadic art, is extremely limited. SAVIJU focuses on a cross-cutting object, Saharan Christian poetics, which presents the characteristic of not being traumatic, unlike the questions by which issues concerning Sahel are generally investigated (migration, humanitarian crises, jihadism etc.). SAVIJU aims at offering an alternative view of the recent conflict in Mali (2012-2015) by recounting events from the point of view of the Christian Tuareg persecuted populations, living as forced refugees in the capital cities of Niger and Mali. The challenge of this project is to write the “hidden histories” of Saharan Christians and to revise the common narrative of the Sahara as uniquely Islamic. The hypothesis that the project has set out to verify is that these conversions constitute a reaction to the jihadism to which the local populations have been subjected, not only because of the occupation of their lands and the forced application of Sharia law but also because of the effects it has had on every-day family-life.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenКоординаторБелгия
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · GainesvilleСъединени щати