B1: Religious Diversity between Regulation and Everyday Practice

PD Dr. Tsypylma Darieva (ZOiS)
Foto: Mosque in Marneuli, Georgia, 2017 © Mostafameraji, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

Description

The logic of religious diversity and the dynamics of inter-faith relations in the post-Soviet “South” remain insufficient researched, even though they are highly relevant for this region. Oftentimes the South Caucasus is furthermost associated with conflict, violence and displacement.

Against this background, the project investigates how ethnic and religious diversity is negotiated and regulated institutionally and in everyday life in the South Caucasus. It aims to explore legal and customary regulations of difference, multilinguality, the role of religious actors in inter-ethnic conflicts and local perspectives on complexity and peace formation in ethnically and religiously mixed settlements (rural and urban neighborhoods). Based on qualitative research methods, the study explores these issues related to everyday peace practices at contested and shared places, informal institutions of regulation and initiatives on local and regional level in (post)Soviet Georgia and Azerbaijan. Additionally, the project seeks to identify contemporary forms of civic engagement (NGOs) and strategies of conflict avoidance.  And it will generate empirical data on cooperation initiatives in selected places and contribute to the studies of diversity as a process.

Key questions

  • Who are the main local and transregional actors involved in the regulation and practices of living together after the conflict?
  • What is the role of religious leaders and civic activists in the escalation and de-escalation of conflicts?

Methodology and sources

  • Qualitative research methods
  • Semi-structured interviews with experts
  • Ethnographic observation at selected places

Project team

PD Dr. Tsypylma Darieva

Tsypylma Darieva is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), where she heads the Migration and Diversity research cluster. Tsypylma Darieva studied Social Anthropology  at Freie University Berlin and received her doctorate as well as her habilitation from Humboldt-University zu Berlin.  Before coming to ZOiS, she was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and research associate at FSU Jena, at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle). She is a co-founder of the ZOiS Caucasus Network and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jena-Cauc project Resilience in the South Caucasus (FSU Jena), and  she teaches in the Department of Transregional Central Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

PD Dr. Tsypylma Darieva

Tsypylma Darieva is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), where she heads the Migration and Diversity research cluster. Tsypylma Darieva studied Social Anthropology  at Freie University Berlin and received her doctorate as well as her habilitation from Humboldt-University zu Berlin.  Before coming to ZOiS, she was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and research associate at FSU Jena, at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle). She is a co-founder of the ZOiS Caucasus Network and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jena-Cauc project Resilience in the South Caucasus (FSU Jena), and  she teaches in the Department of Transregional Central Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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