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Heart openings: The experience and cultivation of love in Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam

Description du projet

Étudier l’amour en tant que concept interreligieux

Le projet HEARTOPENINGS, financé par l’UE, se concentre sur l’expérience et la culture de l’amour dans la pratique religieuse, spirituelle et contemplative: d’abord chez les bouddhistes tibétains, les pentecôtistes et les soufis résidant au Danemark, puis chez les bouddhistes tibétains au Népal, les pentecôtistes en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et les soufis en Égypte. Le projet s’attachera à la tâche anthropologique centrale consistant à comparer non seulement les phénomènes semblables, mais aussi les phénomènes apparemment dissemblables. À travers des méthodes audiovisuelles et microphénoménologiques d’élicitation expérientielle, HEARTOPENINGS examinera en détail les structures synchroniques et diachroniques des expériences concrètes d’amour.

Objectif

"Scholarship has not responded satisfactorily to the current crisis of interreligious misunderstanding, sectarian strife, and rising fundamentalism. Ethical attempts to respect difference have resulted in reifications and the encouragement of difference. Could the kinds of experiences that scholars and practitioners call religious, divine, spiritual, or mystical share a ""common core""? Notwithstanding that this old hypothesis has been rejected by scholars as a universalization of Western and Christian concepts of experience and religion, this project sets out to investigate the possibility of undisclosed commonalities with a new set of methods. The project specifically focuses on the experience and cultivation of love in religious, spiritual, and contemplative practice; first among Tibetan Buddhists, Pentecostals, and Sufis in Denmark; secondly with Tibetan Buddhists in Nepal, Pentecostals in Papua New Guinea, and Sufis in Egypt. In this endeavour the project takes on the central anthropological task of comparing not only things that look alike but also phenomena which are seemingly dissimilar. Through audiovisual and microphenomenological methods of experiential elicitation, the project will examine in minute detail the synchronic and diachronic structures of concrete experiences of love including the complex sensory and emotional qualities of such experiences and the micro-acts and micro-events that may be involved as they unfold. Furthermore, through participant observation and life history interviews the project will examine how such experiences of love impact upon and emerge from people's everyday practices, how research participants themselves understand the ways in which such experiences shape their lives, and how different life trajectories may relate to particular experiences. By combining these methods the project will pave the way for new interreligious understandings based on in-depth experiential detail that has not been achieved before."

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Régime de financement

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Institution d’accueil

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 498 189,00
Adresse
NORDRE RINGGADE 1
8000 Aarhus C
Danemark

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Région
Danmark Midtjylland Østjylland
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 1 498 189,00

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