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elation of cooperation relations and boundaries between cooperating actors to religious
boundaries. By accounting for the embedding of actors and cultural influences on the
probability of cooperation, I follow a pragmatically relational perspective. 2
The empirical approach is a combination of ego-centered network analyses of distinctively
religious affiliated (migrant) associations, based on data from qualitative face-to-face
interviews, and cluster analyses of the whole network of the religious organizational field in
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westfalia, based on data from a standardized questionnaire.
2 Vgl. Fuhse, Jan, und Sophie Mützel. 2010. “Einleitung: Zur relationalen Soziologie. Grundgedanken,
Entwicklungslinien und transatlantische Brückenschläge.” in Relationale Soziologie. Zur kulturellen Wende der
Netzwerkforschung, herausgegeben von Jan Fuhse und Sophie Mützel. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für
Sozialwissenschaften. und Vásquez, Manuel A. 2008. “Studying Religion in Motion: A Networks Approach.”
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 20:151-184.