This article discusses the findings of a participatory photography project that was conceptualized to help Hindu and Muslim students reimagine the religiously marked public spaces they inhabit in their villages. This study is a part of a 2-year long ethnographic project undertaken by the researchers to codesign, with 180 students, critical media literacy curriculum to counter religious discrimination among adolescents in three villages of the Sanand tehsil of Ahmedabad district in Gujarat. In this study, we argue that the configuration of public sites and residential complexes which use religious identities as a categorical imperative reinforce the communal divide in interfaith societies. It is, thus, crucial to create a site for interfaith engagements where young individuals can collectively participate to make sense of the spaces they inhabit and in this participation change the normalized code of conduct. In this article, we concede that participatory photography provides an avenue through which the young student-participants can find ways to communicate with the “religious other” and insert public imagination with new meanings related to the physical sites they frequent.

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重新构想宗教隔离空间：通过参与式摄影建立跨信仰场所

本文讨论了一个参与式摄影项目的发现，该项目旨在帮助印度教和穆斯林学生重新构想他们居住在村庄中具有宗教标志的公共空间。这项研究是研究人员进行的为期 2 年的民族志项目的一部分，该项目由 180 名学生共同设计，旨在打击古吉拉特邦艾哈迈达巴德区 Sanand tehsil 三个村庄青少年中的宗教歧视的关键媒体素养课程。在这项研究中，我们认为使用宗教身份作为绝对命令的公共场所和住宅区的配置加强了不同信仰社会中的公共鸿沟。因此，它是 创建一个跨宗教参与的网站至关重要，让年轻人可以集体参与以了解他们居住的空间，并且在这种参与中改变了规范化的行为准则。在本文中，我们承认参与式摄影提供了一条途径，通过该途径，年轻的学生参与者可以找到与“宗教他者”交流的方式，并为公众想象与他们经常光顾的物理场所相关的新含义。