Buddhist-Muslim interactions/relations in Zanskar Valley (Ladakh District, Northwest India) under the impact of the Indian State, a globalising market and world-religious orthodoxies

Project Information

CO-EXISTENCE

Grant agreement ID: 251984

Project closed

Start date 1 April 2010

End date 31 March 2012

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 161 769,00

EU contribution € 161 769,00

Coordinated by

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Germany

Objective

"In this project the fellow aims at studying the social dynamics of Buddhist-Muslim communities in the Federal State of Jammu and Kashmir (India), in which the absolutist exclusiveness of world-religious orthodoxies and the aspirations at political hegemony grounded in them are rejected in favour of communal identities, which transcend the different religious identities of their members. She endeavours to identify the culturally specific processes of social resistance against Muslim orthodoxy emanating from Kashmir, Pakistan and Saudi-Arabia and Buddhist orthodoxy propagated by exile Tibetan communities. The data collected in empirical research in the region will be analysed by means of models of comparable processes elsewhere in South and Southeast Asia, developed by social anthropologists and political scientists at the University of Muenster, Germany. By taking part in the advanced research programmes at the Institute of Ethnology and the Institute of Political Sciences the fellow will profit from, and contribute to a comprehensive exchange of theoretical insights and empirical data in the social science research of Asia between Muenster University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris. The fellow will use the knowledge obtained as the theoretical and empirical basis for a habilitation project on ""The dynamics of community construction in multi-religious contexts"". Enhancing her theoretical and methodological expertise in social anthropology, and her skills in planning, executing and reporting on research will qualify the fellow for higher level scholarly research and teaching positions."

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• social sciences › sociology › anthropology › ethnology
• social sciences › sociology › anthropology › social anthropology
• social sciences › political sciences

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

• EU contribution: € 161 769,00
• Address: SCHLOSSPLATZ 2 ; 48149 MUENSTER ; Germany
• Region: Nordrhein-Westfalen › Münster › Münster, Kreisfreie Stadt
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data