Church responses to Christchurch mosque terror attacks |
Information for participants
(University of Otago Ethics Reference Number: D19/082)
Thank you for your interest in this project. Please read this information carefully before deciding whether or not to participate. If you decide to participate: thank you. If you decide not to take part there will be no disadvantage to you and we thank you for considering our request.
Aim of the project
This research explores how churches responded in their worship services to the mosque shootings in Christchurch on 15 March.
How do churches talk about tragic events? How do they respond in their worship services? What and how do they pray? What resources do those leading the services draw on in deciding how to respond?
The research has several potential benefits. These include
• understanding the factors that shape how churches respond to tragedy
• understanding church practice, as a resource for training future leaders in theological reflection, congregational leading and worship leading and assisting with professional development of ministers and worship leaders
• locating good examples, in order to develop a resource of responses.
Participants
Ministers and worship leaders from churches in New Zealand (and overseas) are invited to participate.
What is involved?
You are invited to complete this online questionnaire. Depending on your responses, it should take 5-10 minutes to complete. Please be aware that you may decide not to take part in the project without any disadvantage to yourself.
What Information will be collected and what use will be made of it?
The questionnaire asks what, if anything, your church did in response to the Christchurch terror attacks, in your worship service on the 17 March. It asks what resources you drew on, and invites you to give specific details of liturgy, prayers, songs and sermons that engaged with the situation.
You are invited to provide your contact details if you are willing to be interviewed and/or if you would like to receive a summary of the findings. This identifying information will be removed before data analysis and responses will be anonymised.
Only the primary researchers (and potentially a research assistant) will have access to your individual responses. The data collected will be securely stored and retained for at least 5 years in secure storage. Any contact details held on the participants, may be destroyed at the completion of the research even though the data derived from the research will, in most cases, be kept for much longer or possibly indefinitely.
The results of the project will be presented at conferences and may be published. Every attempt will be made to preserve your anonymity. A summary of findings will be available on request and reported via various publications and presentations.
Aim of the project
This research explores how churches responded in their worship services to the mosque shootings in Christchurch on 15 March.
How do churches talk about tragic events? How do they respond in their worship services? What and how do they pray? What resources do those leading the services draw on in deciding how to respond?
The research has several potential benefits. These include
• understanding the factors that shape how churches respond to tragedy
• understanding church practice, as a resource for training future leaders in theological reflection, congregational leading and worship leading and assisting with professional development of ministers and worship leaders
• locating good examples, in order to develop a resource of responses.
Participants
Ministers and worship leaders from churches in New Zealand (and overseas) are invited to participate.
What is involved?
You are invited to complete this online questionnaire. Depending on your responses, it should take 5-10 minutes to complete. Please be aware that you may decide not to take part in the project without any disadvantage to yourself.
What Information will be collected and what use will be made of it?
The questionnaire asks what, if anything, your church did in response to the Christchurch terror attacks, in your worship service on the 17 March. It asks what resources you drew on, and invites you to give specific details of liturgy, prayers, songs and sermons that engaged with the situation.
You are invited to provide your contact details if you are willing to be interviewed and/or if you would like to receive a summary of the findings. This identifying information will be removed before data analysis and responses will be anonymised.
Only the primary researchers (and potentially a research assistant) will have access to your individual responses. The data collected will be securely stored and retained for at least 5 years in secure storage. Any contact details held on the participants, may be destroyed at the completion of the research even though the data derived from the research will, in most cases, be kept for much longer or possibly indefinitely.
The results of the project will be presented at conferences and may be published. Every attempt will be made to preserve your anonymity. A summary of findings will be available on request and reported via various publications and presentations.