The Good Life: Descriptors of Change in Roma Pentecostal Communities in Serbia and Croatia
The Good Life: Descriptors of Change in Roma Pentecostal Communities in Serbia and Croatia
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美好生活：塞尔维亚和克罗地亚罗姆人五旬节社区变化的描述
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2017
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Melody J. Wachsmuth
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Melody J. Wachsmuth
在特定地理环境下进行的研究表明，五旬节主义对罗姆人社区的影响是双重的：它与社会变革有关，包括教育水平的提高、识字率的提高、犯罪率的减少、与多数文化的更好关系;它还有助于促进“跨国”认同和振兴各自的罗姆人认同。然而，五旬节派不能被认为是一个与罗姆人社区相交的公式，其结果是可以预见的--事实上，在东南欧，罗姆人五旬节派的增长速度比西欧和罗马尼亚、保加利亚等地的同行要慢得多。此外，在研究人员、非政府组织和欧盟的语言中，成功往往用新自由主义词汇的恰当术语来衡量：一体化、发展和现代化。鉴于这些情况，应该通过什么样的透镜和用谁的词汇来理解和衡量变化和变革？本文通过克罗地亚和塞尔维亚的罗姆五旬节派领导人的声音，讨论了罗姆社区变革的理想和当前现实，
Studies in specifi c geographical contexts have shown that the spread of Pentecostalism’s infl uence on Roma communities is twofold: it is linked to social change, including a rise of education levels, literacy, decrease in crime, better relationships with the majority culture; and it is also instrumental in the fostering of a “trans-national” identity and revitalization of their respective Roma identities. However, Pentecostalism cannot be considered a formula that intersects with a Romani community with consequential predictable results— in fact, in Southeastern Europe, Romani Pentecostalism is growing at a much slower rate than that of its counterparts in Western Europe and in places such as Romania and Bulgaria. Further, in the language of researchers, NGOs, and the European Union, success is often measured in the appropriated terms of neo-liberal vocabulary: integration, development, and modernization. In view of these circumstances, through what lens and with whose vocabulary should change and transformation be understood and measured? Th is paper discusses both the ideal and the current reality of change in Roma communities through the voices of Roma Pentecostal leaders in Croatia and Serbia—with