AIDS, religious enthusiasm and spiritual insecurity in Africa
AIDS, religious enthusiasm and spiritual insecurity in Africa
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DOI：
10.1080/17441692.2011.602702
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Ashforth, Adam
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作者：
Ashforth, Adam
本文认为，通过提及“精神不安全感”的概念，可以最好地理解近几十年来非洲艾滋病流行与宗教“热情”（从古典和现代意义上解释）的盛行之间的联系。这篇文章对精神不安全感的状况进行了一般性描述，并认为最好在关系现实主义范式中对其进行研究。本文对宗教社会科学中常用的“信仰”概念提出了批评，主张开放社会关系研究，将人们体验世界的关系范围包括在内，包括他们与实体（例如可能被视为虚拟的精神存在）的关系。
The connection between the AIDS epidemic and the efflorescence of religious 'enthusiasm' (construed in both classical and contemporary senses) in Africa in recent decades is best understood, this paper argues, by reference to a concept of 'spiritual insecurity'. The article offers a general description of the condition of spiritual insecurity and argues that it is best studied within a relational realist paradigm. The article presents a critique of the concept of 'belief' as commonly used in the social science of religion, arguing instead for an opening of the study of social relations to include the universe of relations within which people experience the world, including their relations with entities such as spiritual beings that might otherwise be considered virtual.