Religion als Ressource und Risiko. Eine empirische mixed-methods Studie zur Religiosität von Jugendlichen mit Fluchthintergrund (ReReRi)
Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: ReReRi
Start date : 01.03.2018
End date : 31.03.2019
Website: http://www.rupre.uni-erlangen.org/projects/completed-projects.shtml
Project details
Scientific Abstract
We know from existing empirical studies that young people with migration and refugee background tend to be highly religious. For refugee youth, however, the significance of their religiosity for their life and their integration has hardly been the object of research. Nor has the development of their religiosity in the context of their new home country. It can be assumed that religiosity can function both as a resource for better coping with life and integration as well as a risk that impairs life and intergration, for instance in conservative, fundemantalistic and extremistic forms.
With an empirical inquiry among N = 50 refugee adolescents in Nuremberg, Leipzig and Berlin we intend to find out about characteristics of their religiosity, its relationship to other spheres of life and to the challenge of integration. Also, the development of the refugees' religiosity since their immigration into Germany is to be illuminated. To this end, we apply a mixed-methods interview design, in which narrative-biografical parts are combined with guideline-based and closed-ended questions. The closed-ended part includes several questions taken from the research project "ReGES - Refugees in the German Educaitonal System" conducted by the Leibniz-Institute for Educational Trajectories (LifBi) in Bamberg, so that our study can - methodically as well as content-wise - complement ReGES. A cooperation agreement with LifBi has been concluded.
A follow-up project that extends the research into a longitudinal study is intended.
