Pentecostalism, Populism and the New Politics of Affect
Pentecostalism, Populism and the New Politics of Affect
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五旬节主义、民粹主义和新情感政治
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2012
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J. Comaroff
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作者：
J. Comaroff
从非洲的角度来看，近年来福音派教会在全球大部分地区的大规模增长尤其具有讽刺意味。这些运动不仅强调了一个已成为不言而喻的真理：在我们日益理性化的世界中，神圣事物的持久性、甚至日益凸显性——这违背了伟大的现代性进化理论家所推定的祛魅的目的。事实证明，二十一世纪最适合非洲大陆条件的宗教生活形式挑战了马克斯·韦伯等人或那些希望通过皈依方式将非洲人带入“文明”世界的人所宣扬的新教现代主义的许多信条。更重要的是，事实证明，当今时代最受欢迎的运动一直在以一种自我传播的方式进行，而这种方式是早期在非洲土地上播种基督教的艰苦努力所无法实现的——就像欧洲传教团为培养沉着的非洲皈依者、驯服他们的激情并通过耐心的辛劳灌输救赎信息所做的努力一样。
The massive growth of evangelical churches across much of the planet in recent times is especially ironic from an African perspective. It is not merely that these movements underline what has become a truism: the enduring, even intensifying salience of the sacred in our ever more rationalised world — something that defies the telos of disenchantment, presumed by the great evolutionary theorists of modernity. It is also that the forms of religious life that have proved most adaptive to conditions on the continent in the twenty first century challenge many of the tenets of Protestant modernism promulgated by the likes of Max Weber, or by those who hoped to usher Africans into the ‘civilized’ world by way of conversion. What is more, the movements that have proved to be most popular in current times have been self-propagating in a manner that eluded earlier, laborious efforts to seed Christianity on African soil — like the effort by the European missions to cultivate self-possessed African converts, to tame their passions and to instil a message of salvation through patient toil.