Negotiating Marriage: Questions of Morality and Legitimacy in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Diaspora
Negotiating Marriage: Questions of Morality and Legitimacy in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Diaspora
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婚姻谈判：加纳五旬节派侨民的道德和合法性问题
DOI：
10.1163/1570066042564383
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发表时间：
2004
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0.4
通讯作者：
R. V. Dijk
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作者：
R. V. Dijk
在荷兰定居的众多移民群体中，最近抵达荷兰的加纳移民被荷兰政府视为问题尤其严重。已采取明确措施调查加纳人的婚姻，因为这似乎是许多人获得荷兰福利国家的途径。在荷兰政府收紧移民政策的同时，加纳移民社区出现了许多加纳五旬节派教会。这些教堂的一个重要功能是主持婚礼；这些婚姻在移民社区看来是合法和正义的，但在荷兰政府看来却没有任何法律依据。这篇文章探讨了为什么加纳社区认为在他们的五旬节教会中发生的这些婚姻具有重大的道德意义。它通过区分公民道德与公民责任，调查了加纳和荷兰五旬节派教会职能的变化意义。它试图探索在这两种情况下，合法性是如何产生的，以及在面对主流的国家-公民社会关系时是如何受到质疑的。通过这一探索，我们将清楚地看到，为什么在这两种情况下，五旬节派不太可能发展成为一个完全意义上的公民宗教。
Among the many immigrant groups that have settled in the Netherlands, the recently arrived migrants from Ghana have been perceived by the Dutch state as especially problematic. Explicit measures have been taken to investigate marriages of Ghanaians, as these appeared to be an avenue by which many acquired access to the Dutch welfare state. While the Dutch government tightened its immigration policies, many Ghanaian Pentecostal churches were emerging in the Ghanaian immigrant communities. An important function of these churches is to officiate over marriages; marriages that are perceived as lawful and righteous in the eyes of the migrant community but nonetheless do not have any legal basis as far as the Dutch state is concerned. This contribution explores why the Ghanaian community attributes great moral significance to these marriages that are taking place within their Pentecostal churches. It investigates the changing meaning of the functions of Pentecostal churches in Ghana and in the Netherlands by distinguishing civil morality from civic responsibility. It seeks to explore how, in both contexts, legitimacy is created as well as contested in the face of prevailing state-civil society relations. Through this exploration, it will become clear why, in both situations, Pentecostalism is unlikely to develop into a civic religion in the full sense of the term.