The project evaluates the complex interplay of membership in religious organizations
and immigrant incorporation into the German host society. Point of departure
of the research is the contemporary critique of deficient integration and self-exclusion
of migrants and migrant communities that especially Muslim migrants are reproached
of. Publicity of the topic however does not yet match knowledge on processes
of religious community building and boundary making performed by religious organisations
and their members. Field work using social anthropological research methods
therefore will try to broaden the scope being conducted in two different religious
communities - an "Arabic" Mosque and an "African" Pentecostal
Church. Both communities represent new transnational religious movements and
develop contexts of "universalism beyond ethnicity". Micro level processes
of face-to-face negotiations about integration and recognition of religious-cultural
diversity are perceived in a perspective of interdependency with the contemporary
global symbolic order of power and boundary making. The aim of the project may
therefore be described as twofold: to assess the constructive potential of migrant
religious organisations and to point out new empirically grounded perspectives
for institutionalising religious diversity in German society.
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