Religion, Politics and the Everyday Moral Order in Bangladesh
Religion, Politics and the Everyday Moral Order in Bangladesh
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DOI：
10.1080/00472336.2012.735544
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
White, Sarah C.
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作者：
Devine, Joseph;White, Sarah C.
对当代孟加拉国的评论越来越关注宗教的作用，特别是其更原教旨主义的形式，在公共政治中的作用。在这里，我们提供另一种分析，探讨宗教在人们日常生活中的重要性，重点关注其在社区政治中的表达。我们利用了被理解为生活道德基础的佛法和被更狭义地理解为宗教的佛法之间的重要本地区别。我们的实证分析表明，前一种佛法意识与社会的道德秩序具有更大的相关性，并被用来评估和构建其社会和政治制度，包括那些被认为是宗教的制度。这一视角为现代孟加拉国宗教、政治和社会变革之间的动态关系提供了新的见解。
Commentaries on contemporary Bangladesh give increasing attention to the role of religion, particularly its more fundamentalist forms, in public politics. Here we offer an alternative analysis that explores the significance of religion in people's everyday lives, concentrating on its articulation in community politics. We draw on an important local distinction between dharma understood as a moral foundation for life and dharma understood more narrowly as religion. Our empirical analysis suggests that it is the former sense of dharma which has greater relevance for the moral order of the community, and is used to evaluate and structure its social and political institutions, including those identified as religious. This perspective furnishes fresh insights into the dynamic relationship between religion, politics and social change in modern Bangladesh.