Christianity, place/space, and anthropology: thinking across recent research on evangelical place-making
Christianity, place/space, and anthropology: thinking across recent research on evangelical place-making
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基督教、场所/空间和人类学：对福音派场所营造的最新研究的思考
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2016
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I. Hovland
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布置场所是基督教团体的核心活动。然而，学术文献中很少有关于地方基督教理论的比较对话。这篇文章“跨越”了福音派社区的十种民族志描述，以关注这些基督徒在日常场所建设中所关注的事情。它讨论了在福音派场所工作中经常出现的七个问题（即语言、物质、时间、人格、跨地方、超越和世俗的关注）。这一分析使当前关于新教物质性、时间性和人格的人类学辩论有细微差别。这篇文章认为，福音派制造场所的一个核心原则是将信仰和场所同时分离和融合。这导致了同时融合和“不融合”的情况和设置，这不能被标记为置换或完全就位。更广泛地说，福音派的场所创造提供了一个与无场所不同的去地域化的现代例子。它也说明了理想、意向性和能动性之间复杂的相互作用。
Place-making is a central activity for Christian groups. Yet the scholarly literature contains little comparative conversation on local Christian theories of place. This article ‘thinks across’ ten ethnographic descriptions of evangelical communities in order to pay attention to what these Christians pay attention to in their everyday place-making. It discusses seven problematics that commonly recur in evangelical place-work (namely linguistic, material, temporal, personhood, translocal, transcendent, and worldly concerns). This analysis nuances current anthropological debates on Protestant materiality, temporality, and personhood. The article argues that a central tenet of evangelicals’ place-making is a simultaneous taking apart and bringing together of faith and place. This results in a simultaneous fusing and ‘unfusing’ of situation and setting, which cannot be labeled either dis-placement or thorough emplacement. More broadly, evangelical place-making provides a modern example of deterritorialization that is different from placeless-ness. It also speaks to the complex interplay between ideals, intentionality, and agency.