Modernity in Question?: Culture and Religion in an Age of Global Modernity

Modernity in Question?: Culture and Religion in an Age of Global Modernity
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现代性受到质疑?:全球现代性时代的文化与宗教

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10.1353/dsp.2011.0040
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2011
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Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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A. Dirlik
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我想提出一个分析框架,试图解释过去20年里两个看似矛盾的事态发展:经济和政治全球化,通常被认为是前所未有的全球一体化,以及宗教或更广泛地说,传统主义的复兴,它们造成新的政治和文化裂痕,或重新打开旧的政治和文化裂痕。大多数关于全球发展的讨论都偏向于这些现象中的一种。我们都熟悉关于全球化的多产文献,这些文献提供了即将到来的全球一体化和同质化的愿景(或威胁),其中宗教复兴带来的分裂似乎只是过去的遗产,很可能通过重塑世界的不可抗拒的全球化来弥合。另一方面,分析认为宗教复兴就是一切,不是过去的残余物,而是现代性的产物,指出多重现代性或“文明冲突”是人类在可预见的未来的命运。对其中之一的强调使人们无法认识到,一体化和碎片化--或同质化和异质化--可能是正在调整全球结构的相同进程的矛盾方面。我将这种新兴的全球状况描述为“全球现代性”。正如我将在下文中更详细地解释的那样,我对这一术语的理解不仅是全球政治和文化关系,而且是跨越国家和文明鸿沟的社会关系。宗教或宗教原教旨主义的问题不是“第三世界”或伊斯兰问题。更重要的是,这是一个资本主义现代性的问题。近几十年来,宗教的复兴不仅是发展中社会的一种现象,这些社会的文化遗产是过去的,尽管主要是表面上的,但它是资本主义现代性的产物,在这个号称世界上最先进--或者说至少是最强大--的社会里,宗教也非常活跃。在这个社会,宗教纠缠于对市场和个人企业至高无上的最公然的新自由主义信念。它在其他社会背景下采取的协同主义形式--不仅在伊斯兰社会,而且在所谓的儒家社会--也指出
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