The Ambivalence of Power: Charismatic Christianity and Occult Forces in Urban Tanzania
The Ambivalence of Power: Charismatic Christianity and Occult Forces in Urban Tanzania
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权力的矛盾心理：坦桑尼亚城市中的灵恩基督教和神秘力量
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2009
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M. Lindhardt
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M. Lindhardt
在这篇文章中，我探讨了魅力基督教和对神秘力量的“传统”理解之间的相似之处和动态相互作用，这些神秘力量与坦桑尼亚中部伊林加市的一个神秘领域有关。我讨论了权力的概念是建设性的、必要的，但同时也是危险的和潜在的破坏性，如何被关于黑暗领域和相关的赋权、破裂和精神斗争的仪式实践的超凡魅力话语所采用并部分转化。最后，我认为，灵恩基督教与传统宗教/文化之间的关系可以更好地从共存性、交叉性和持续的相互影响的角度来理解，而不是暂时性的差异。
In this article I explore parallels and dynamic interplays between charismatic Christianity and «traditional» understandings of mysterious power as related to an occult sphere in the city of Iringa in central Tanzania. I discuss how notions of power as constructive and necessary yet also dangerous and potentially destructive are adopted into and partly transformed by charismatic discourses on the realm of darkness and related ritual practices of empowerment, rupture and spiritual struggle. In the end I argue that the relationship between charismatic Christianity and traditional religion/ culture may better be grasped in terms of coevalness, intersections and ongoing mutual influence than temporalising difference.