December 30, 2019

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Cognitive Minorities in Leipzig and Dallas

The objective of this research project is to ascertain – by means of a comparative analysis of ‘cognitive minorities’ – how people maintain a view of the world that deviates significantly from the one generally taken for granted in their social environment. Using a complementary research design the project aims to reconstruct how a distinctive group of religious believers (Evangelical Protestants) in a strongly secular city (Leipzig) defines its reality and how this is done by a group of skeptics and seekers (Unitarians) in a city characterized by evangelical spirituality (Dallas).

Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG): Oct. 2017 to Mar 2022.

NEW PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH

Steets, Silke (2022): Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity. In: Space und Culture. Open Access & Online first.

Steets, Silke (2022): »This Is Not Just a Story About New York« – Refiguring Spaces through Innovation. In: Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debate 16(2). Open Access: https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/15456.

Knoblauch, Hubert / Steets, Silke (2022): »Here Is Looking at You«: Relational Phenomenology and the Problem of Mutual Gaze. In: Studia Phaenomenologica XXII. Gestures. S. 125–144. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5840/studphaen2022227.

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