Prayer, Pop and Politics

Autor(en)

Astrid Mattes, Katharina Limacher, Christoph Novak, Marlene Deibl

Abstrakt

Prayer, Pop and Politics – Researching Religious Youth in Migration Society presents research at the intersection of religion, age and race and tackles the question what it is like to be young and religious in a migration society. In their edited volume, Katharina Limacher, Astrid Mattes and Christoph Novak compile empirical studies from Austria, France, Germany and Switzerland as well as more methodological and conceptual contributions.
The chapters’ foci range from digital and offline activism of religious youth to participatory action research projects on radicalisation prevention. The authors present research on various religious traditions, and apply an array of different theoretical angles including feminist, post- and de-colonial perspectives. In going one step further, the volume engages in the debate over novel conceptual frameworks attuned to investigate contemporary manifestations of youth religiosity, for example in digital spaces. The methodological chapters strongly advocate for reflexivity in the context of empirical research on religion in migration society. In discussing the implications of insider and outsider positions in research, as well as researchers’ privileges and the challenges in concept operationalization, it promotes a self-evaluative assessment of researchers’ positionalities.
The team of 15 contributing authors’ works across Europe, come from various disciplinary backgrounds, and includes scholars of religion and migration, political scientists, sociologists, and ethnologists. In bringing together expert knowledge from these different research traditions, Prayer, Pop and Politics not only appeals to a broad scientific audience, but also manages to collate an interdisciplinary state of the art. In doing so, the present volume also opens up new perspectives to facilitate further inter- and transdisciplinary research on youth and religion in migration society.

Organisation(en)

Forschungszentrum Religion and Transformation, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Institut für Systematische Theologie und Ethik

Externe Organisation(en)

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)

Anzahl der Seiten

278

DOI

https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737009799

Publikationsdatum

2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603909 Religionswissenschaft, 509008 Kinderforschung, Jugendforschung, 504016 Jugendsoziologie, 504025 Religionssoziologie

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/prayer-pop-and-politics(dd3fdf7d-06af-4384-b77f-9774c51a7b29).html