Descripción del proyecto
Fomento de la integración de comunidades de religiones minoritarias
Las tendencias recientes de la migración global de personas han inspirado la formación del concepto de teorías de modelos relativas a la asimilación de grupos minoritarios en las sociedades de acogida. Se han realizado pocos estudios empíricos sobre el tema de las exhibiciones religiosas (manifestaciones) de los grupos minoritarios en espacios públicos. Básicamente, no está claro si dichas manifestaciones contribuyen a un sentimiento de aceptación o si crean animosidad hacia los inmigrantes de la religión minoritaria. El proyecto ReligSpace, financiado con fondos europeos, realizará una investigación y experimentación exhaustivas en entornos urbanos para formular una nueva teoría sobre los efectos causales que las manifestaciones religiosas tienen en la integración de los grupos minoritarios. La comprensión de este problema sensible facilitará la integración armoniosa de las minorías y ayudará a que los responsables políticos y los urbanistas tomen decisiones informadas.
Objetivo
Recent globalization and immigration trends are motivating tremendous efforts to regulate manifestations of minority religions in the public space, such as religious structures, stores, attire, and rituals (hereafter, spatial religious manifestations). Yet the empirical literature has, to date, not taken on the methodologically and conceptually challenging undertaking of theorizing, operationalizing, and assessing this dimension of religion. In particular, it remains unclear what causal effect manifestations of religion in the public space have on minority-religion immigrants’ sociopolitical integration: do they, by validating immigrants’ identity, facilitate a sense of belonging and the endorsement of local practices, or nurture alienation and hostility toward the host society?
Integrating up-to-date theories and methods from political science, psychology, sociology, and geography, and optimizing external and internal validity, this project is the first large-scale research to examine the causal effect of exposure to spatial religious cues on sociopolitical integration, studying minority-religion immigrants of the three monotheistic religions in four urban settings.
The research will be divided into three work packages: (1) conceptualization and operationalization of spatial religious manifestations; (2) comparative naturalistic and survey-embedded experiments examining the effect of real-world spatial religious cues on minority-religion immigrants’ sociopolitical integration; and (3) a panel survey with longitudinal geocoded data analyzing the conditions in which spatial religious cues are particularly instrumental in local-level integration.
Besides developing a novel approach to the study of religion in politics, this project will open new horizons in the understanding of aggregated religious priming effects in real-world settings, with insights into the dynamics that would advance a more inclusive society via nuanced policies and informed urban planning.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
91904 Jerusalem
Israel