Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion
Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion
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精神市场：婴儿潮一代与美国宗教的重塑
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1999
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W. C. Roof
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在大型连锁书店中，“宗教”部分消失了，取而代之的是越来越多的主题，包括天使、苏菲主义、旅程、康复、冥想、魔法、灵感、犹太教、占星术、大师、圣经、预言、福音派、玛丽、佛教、天主教和秘传。正如韦德·克拉克·鲁夫（Wade Clark Roof）指出的那样，过去二十年的这些变化反映了传统意义上的宗教向更加多样化和创造性的方法的转变。但这种宗教观点的分裂对美国人来说意味着什么呢？我们是否对精神问题变得更加感兴趣，还是迷失在潮流之中？我们是否比传统宗教更看重个人灵性，并且不再认为自己团结在一个更大的信仰社区中？鲁夫在其畅销书《寻求者的一代》（A Generation of Seekers，1993）中首次将这种宗教多样性归功于婴儿潮一代。他回来采访了这些人中的许多人，他们现在已步入中年，揭示了具有独特精神价值观的一代人——这一代人改变了我们对宗教信仰、实践和象征的历史解释，甚至可能改变了我们对神圣本身的理解。婴儿潮一代创造的追求文化创造了一个新的精神信仰和实践以及重新审视传统的“市场”。正如鲁夫所表明的，一些美国人正在首次探索信仰和精神纪律；其他人正在重新发现他们失去的传统；其他人则被小团体和另类社区所吸引；还有一些人创造了自己的价值观和形而上学信仰的组合。 《精神市场》描绘了五种亚文化的出现：教条主义者、重生基督徒、主流信徒、形而上学信徒和探索者以及世俗主义者。鲁夫根据十多年来的调查和深入访谈，报告了每种亚文化的宗教和精神风格、家庭模式以及道德愿景和价值观。其结果是一种创新的、引人入胜的方法来理解宗教生活在我们进入下个世纪时如何被重塑。
In large chain bookstores the "religion" section is gone and in its place is an expanding number of topics including angels, Sufism, journey, recovery, meditation, magic, inspiration, Judaica, astrology, gurus, Bible, prophesy, evangelicalism, Mary, Buddhism, Catholicism, and esoterica. As Wade Clark Roof notes, such changes over the last two decades reflect a shift away from religion as traditionally understood to more diverse and creative approaches. But what does this splintering of the religious perspective say about Americans? Have we become more interested in spiritual concerns or have we become lost among trends? Do we value personal spirituality over traditional religion and no longer see ourselves united in a larger community of faith? Roof first credited this religious diversity to the baby boomers in his bestselling "A Generation of Seekers" (1993). He returns to interview many of these people, now in mid-life, to reveal a generation with a unique set of spiritual values--a generation that has altered our historic interpretations of religious beliefs, practices, and symbols, and perhaps even our understanding of the sacred itself.The quest culture created by the baby boomers has generated a "marketplace" of new spiritual beliefs and practices and of revisited traditions. As Roof shows, some Americans are exploring faiths and spiritual disciplines for the first time; others are rediscovering their lost traditions; others are drawn to small groups and alternative communities; and still others create their own mix of values and metaphysical beliefs. "Spiritual Marketplace" charts the emergence of five subcultures: dogmatists, born-again Christians, mainstream believers, metaphysical believers and seekers, and secularists. Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews for over a decade, Roof reports on the religious and spiritual styles, family patterns, and moral vision and values for each of these subcultures. The result is an innovative, engaging approach to understanding how religious life is being reshaped as we move into the next century.