American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States
American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States
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美国属地：当代美国与恶魔作斗争
DOI：
10.1080/17432200.2015.1120080
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发表时间：
2016
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0.4
通讯作者：
K. Byron
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作者：
K. Byron
在过去的三十年里，越来越多的福音派牧师、作家和孩子们组成了一个庞大的网络，他们穿上了属灵的盔甲，试图通过一系列被恰当地命名为“属灵战争”的实践来拯救这个世界。这场运动被称为“第三次浪潮”，经常被视为美国基督教的边缘，或被局外人视为新奇事物。美国的财产：《当代美国的恶魔之战》认为，精神战争是现代晚期美国宗教和世俗文化中一些最突出主题的接触区。肖恩·麦克劳德（Sean McCloud）扩展了他以前关于美国宗教和阶级的工作，认为恶魔战士的关注与“消费资本主义，流行文化，政治和新自由主义的当代话语”毫无希望地交织在一起（3）。因此，《美国占有》不仅是一部关于一群基督徒和撒旦势力之间战争的详细描述，而且是对这种宇宙学冲突如何被用作理解某种更大的东西的切入点的考察。
Over the past three decades, an increasingly large network of evangelical pastors, authors, and children have donned spiritual armor and sought to deliver the world of its demons through a series of practices aptly titled “spiritual warfare.” This movement, known as the “Third Wave,” is often dismissed as a fringe of American Christianity or entertained as a novelty by outsiders. However, American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary UnitedStates holds that spiritual warfare is a contact zone for some of the most salient themes in late-modern American religious–and secular–culture. Extending his previous work on religion and class in America, Sean McCloud argues that the concerns of demon fighters are hopelessly intertwined with “the contemporary discourses of consumer capitalism, popular culture, politics, and neoliberalism”(3). Thus, American Possessions is not merely a detailed account of a war waging between a group of Christians and the forces of Satan, but an examination of how this cosmological conflict can be used as an entry point to understand something, paradoxically, much larger.