Brajisalem: Biblical Cosmology, Power Dynamics and the Brazilian Political Imagination
Brajisalem: Biblical Cosmology, Power Dynamics and the Brazilian Political Imagination
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布拉吉萨勒姆：圣经宇宙论、权力动态和巴西政治想象力
作者：
M. Shapiro
摘要基于对巴西新五旬节派朝圣者的实地调查和对社交媒体的持续调查，本文认为巴西新五旬节派越来越多地将巴西想象为应许之地，巴西人民是上帝的子民。在这里，与圣地、犹太人和耶稣基督有关的不同物质被用来在巴西传播神圣的力量，这种力量被认为是来自上帝。这种想象试图取代巴西民主权力精神的霸权，这种民主权力精神被认为是由巴西人民自下而上产生的。我把这个过程与席卷巴西政治体系的保守浪潮联系起来，并展示了巴西政治想象力的精神和道德中心位于圣经中的耶路撒冷可能是什么样子。
ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork with Brazilian neo-Pentecostal pilgrims to the Holy Land and ongoing survey of social media in this article I argue that Brazilian neo-Pentecostals increasingly imagine Brazil as a Promised Land and the Brazilian People as the People of God. Here, different substances associated with the Holy Land, the Jewish People and Jesus Christ are used to disperse in Brazil divine power, which is seen to emanate from God. This imaginary seeks to replace the hegemony of the democratic ethos of power in Brazil, which is seen to emanate bottoms-up from the Brazilian People. I associate this process with the conservative wave sweeping through the Brazilian political system and show what a Brazilian political imagination whose spiritual and moral centre is located in Biblical Jerusalem may look like.