Photography and the Religious Encounter: Ambiguity and Aesthetics in Missionary Representations of the Luba of South East Belgian Congo
Photography and the Religious Encounter: Ambiguity and Aesthetics in Missionary Representations of the Luba of South East Belgian Congo
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摄影与宗教相遇：比属刚果东南部卢巴传教士形象的模糊性和美学
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10.1017/s0010417510000629
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
D. Maxwell
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作者：
D. Maxwell
威廉·f·p·伯顿的职业生涯横跨了几个看似相互矛盾的世界。作为第一代五旬节派信徒，他于1915年与詹姆斯·索尔特（James Salter）一起在比属刚果的姆万扎（Mwanza）开创了刚果福音传教会（CEM）。由于伯顿在至少30份欧洲和北美传教期刊上发表的宣传文章，CEM成为了未来五旬节派在非洲传教工作的典范。他的大量出版物，大约有28本书，不包括传教杂志上的小册子和文章，揭示了CEM是一个传教运动，由无情的改变宗教信仰、神性治疗、驱魔和摧毁所谓的“恋物癖”所激发。CEM以基督为中心的信息要求新信徒公开认罪，拒绝与祖先宗教、附身崇拜、占卜和巫术有关的行为。这是一种强烈的反传统形式的新教，它保持了一种强烈的区别，即以圣经为媒介的“先进”基督教和崇拜偶像的原始异教。伯顿的五旬节派有许多自己的原始冲动，让人回想起一个时代，在那个时代，神迹和奇迹是日常生活的东西，梦和异象构成了规范的权威，圣经不受高等批评的影响。但他的愿景也包括社会现代化，他宣扬学校教育和西方风格的服装、建筑和农业的优点。正是这种原始和务实倾向的结合，塑造了澳电与比利时殖民国家的紧张关系。
William F. P. Burton's career straddled several worlds that seemed at odds with each other. As a first-generation Pentecostal he pioneered, with James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) at Mwanza, Belgian Congo in 1915. The CEM became a paradigm for future Pentecostal Faith Mission work in Africa, thanks to Burton's propagandist writings that were published in at least thirty European and North American missionary periodicals. His extensive publications, some twenty-eight books, excluding tracts and articles in mission journals, reveal that the CEM was a missionary movement animated by a relentless proselytism, divine healing, exorcism, and the destruction of so-called “fetishes.” The CEM's Christocentric message required the new believer to make a public confession of sin and reject practices relating to ancestor religion, possession cults, divination, and witchcraft. It was a deeply iconoclastic form of Protestantism that maintained a strong distinction between an “advanced” Christian religion, mediated by the Bible, and an idolatrous primitive pagan religion. Burton's Pentecostalism had many of its own primitive urges, harkening back to an age where miraculous signs and wonders were the stuff of daily life, dreams and visions constituted normative authority, and the Bible was immune to higher criticism. But his vision also embraced social modernization and he preached the virtues of schooling and western styles of clothing, architecture, and agriculture. It was this combination of primitive and pragmatic tendencies that shaped the CEM's tense relations with the Belgian colonial state.
卢巴的灵魂：W.F.P.
影响因子：
0.7
作者：
Maxwell D
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Maxwell D