The Expansive Present
The Expansive Present
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广阔的现在
作者：
N. Haynes
基督教人类学中最有成效的研究路线之一，探索了基督教信奉如何安排时间。这里的组织思想一直是破裂的，无论是在皈依时与异教徒过去的决裂，还是预期中的末日未来的决裂。与这种“点缀”的时间观形成对比的是，本文考察的是基督徒的时间性，而不是过去或未来的突破，而是广阔的现在。对于赞比亚铜带上的五旬节派教徒来说，这种宽广的现在是以经文的形式对过去的叙述构成的，这种叙述永远被重温。五旬节派的未来也被繁荣福音的期望带到了现在。通过沿着这些路线扩展当下，信徒们拒绝顺从的逻辑，这种逻辑构建了基督教和资本主义时代的许多形式。因此，对广阔的当下的分析使我们超越了基督教人类学的核心--分裂的语言。它还通过探索资本主义时代的经历-以及与资本主义时代的批判性接触-谈到了超越宗教研究的关切。
One of the most productive lines of inquiry in the anthropology of Christianity has explored how Christian adherence structures time. The organizing idea here has been rupture, whether the break with the pagan past at conversion or the expected break of the apocalyptic future. In contrast to this “punctuated” view of time, this article examines a Christian temporality focused not on a past or future break, but rather on an expansive present. For Pentecostals on the Zambian Copperbelt, this expansive present is structured by the narrative of the past in the form of scripture, which is perpetually relived. The Pentecostal future is also brought near to the present by the expectations of the prosperity gospel. By expanding the present along these lines, believers reject the logic of submission that structures many forms of both Christian and capitalist time. An analysis of the expansive present therefore moves us beyond the language of rupture that has been central to the anthropology of Christianity. It also speaks to concerns beyond the study of religion by exploring the experience of—and critical engagement with—capitalist time.