| Title |
Lecturer |
Date |
Short description |
| International Migration and the Governance of Religious Diversity |
Prof. Dr. Matthias König |
07/26/2010 |
The lecture compares how Western immigration societies, old and new, respond to new religious diversity. It is known that the mobilization of migrant religious groups affects state responses to religious diversity no less than immigration policies, patterns of church-state relations, and deep-seated constructions of national identity. Yet, disentangling these factors and assessing their causal weight has remained an unresolved research question in the nascent social science literature on the governance of religious diversity. It is this question which the lecture addresses, drawing on recently completed case studies from Western Europe and North America. |
| Reactions to Religious Pluralization in Europe |
Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack |
07/26/2010 |
N.N. |
| Religious / migrants' organizations and community building |
Prof. Dr. Robert C. Smith |
07/27/2010 |
N.N. |
| Interpretation Methods I: Discourse Analysis |
Dr. Frank Neubert |
07/27/2010 |
Discourse Theory and Discourse Analysis have become key terms in the
Study of Religions since the late 1970s. In fact, they are considered
the central building blocks of what is commonly called cultural
Studies
– be that a field of disciplines analysing cultures or a specific
approach to themes of the humanities. In this workshop, I would like
to
discuss (1) a number of concepts relating to discourse analysis
(part I)
and attempts to apply the method to different fields of empirical
research (part II). In both parts, it is hoped that the participants
will cease the opportunity to discuss, challenge or apply the
concepts
with reference to their own research interests. |
| Interpretation Methods II: Case Study Design & Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) |
Jun.-Prof. Ingo Rohlfing |
07/27/2010 |
N.N. |
| Ethnographic methods and interviewing techniques |
Dr. Heidrun Friese |
07/27/2010 |
‘…. I enjoy that, this figuring out how you get along with them, figuring out how to live with them and figuring out what makes them tick – I find that extraordinary. And being allowed to do that without anyone telling how to do it. That’s the other thing when you are in the field, you are your own person, you can do what you want. Well, there are constraints, there are millions of constraints, but... I am interested in the specific... I am not looking for some abstract humanity... I am interested in people’s ways of being in the world and I’m trying to puzzle it out.’ Starting out with these remarks by Clifford Geertz and with reference to my own experiences of extended and multi-sited fieldwork in Sicily and Tunesia, we will engage the specific features of anthropological practice, its joys and constraints. We will as well evidence the tensions between experience, tales from the field and anthropological writing and thus, point towards the limits of method. |
| Interpretation Methods I: Discourse Analysis (Part 2) |
Dr. Frank Neubert |
07/28/2010 |
N.N. |
| Interpretation Methods II: Case Study Design & Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) (Part 2) |
Jun.-Prof. Ingo Rohlfing |
07/28/2010 |
The first part of the workshop deals with qualitative case studies that
are conducted with the goal to at least modestly generalize beyond the
cases under analysis. The topics covered include types of case studies
and comparative designs, case selection, and process tracing.
The second part focuses on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). After
an introduction to the basics of set-relational thinking that is central
to QCA, the application of crisp-set QCA and fuzzy-set QCA is discussed
alongside with central methodological issues that one confronts. In this
part, we will use the freely available software fsQCA 2.0.
|
| Ethnographic methods and interviewing techniques |
Prof. Flemming Christiansen |
07/28/2010 |
N.N. |
| Shorter Workshop I: Religious Diversity and its Impact - A country comparative perspective |
Dr. des. Markus Hero |
07/29/2010 |
Starting with theoretical considerations on the relationship between religious diversity and its possible impacts, different measures of religious pluralisation are discussed. Furthermore the workshop examines the impacts of religious pluralisation in three European states: Germany, Finland and Slovenia. Each country is considered to be representative of a larger group of states, making them case studies: Does the amount of religious options in the surrounding living environment affect personal religiosity in terms of fundamentalist views, attitudes towards religious pluralism and how central a role religion plays for an individual? Moreover, does religious diversity seem to affect more general social attitudes, such as xenophobia, social distance or donation behaviour? When compared to other societal and personal independent variables, is the degree of religious diversity a central explanatory factor when studying religious and social attitudes? |
| Shorter Workshop II: Transnational Spaces & Religious Networking |
Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries/Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexander-K. Nagel |
07/29/2010 |
Religion can be called a traditional domain of transnational civil
society. Long before global order was structured by nation states
encapsulating themselves against each other, religious concepts such as
the Islamic Umma, the ultramontane principle of Catholicism or Christian
Ecumenism have served as frames of identity and belonging beyond
territorial „container states“. In our workshop, we will take a look at
processes of transnationalization in general and exemplarily examine the
role of religious networks in historical as well as contemporary
societies. Participants will be offered an analytical tool box on how to
grasp a complex set of transnational developments frequently referred to
as „globalization“. In a second step, they will have the opportunity to
apply these concepts in case studies of religious networking beyond
national borders.
|
| Ethnographic methods and interviewing techniques |
Prof. Dr. Anja Weiß |
07/29/2010 |
Qualitative research is based on the assumption that meaning is
interactively constructed. This implies that meaning can be
contested,
but also that meaning is implicitly shared in a "lifeworld" (Schütz),
i.e. a group or milieu with similar experiences and perspectives.
Interviewing accordingly is not supposed to be standardized or yield
standard results, but instead it is supposed to give maximum space to
the perspective of the interviewee. An analysis of interview
material is
supposed to reconstruct implicit meaning as well as explicit
contents.
As narrations offer a better and more valid insight into the
experiences
and orientations of the interviewees good interview are supposed to
generate narrations even when they are semi-structured.
The workshop will begin with an introduction into the dilemmas of
qualitative interviewing (for German readers see Hopf 1978). You will
then learn how to construct and administer an initiating question
for a
narrative interview and a structure for a semi-structured interview.
You
are invited to send the interview structure in your Ph.D. project to
me
prior to the workshop so that I can some of your material
selectively.
The workshop closes with a training session on the practice of
interviewing./ |
