Visions and Evidences: Prophetic Scripture and a “Crisis of Representation” in Zambia
Visions and Evidences: Prophetic Scripture and a “Crisis of Representation” in Zambia
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异象与证据：预言圣经与赞比亚的“代表危机”
DOI：
10.1080/08949460600596533
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
0.2
通讯作者：
Thomas Kirsch
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作者：
Thomas Kirsch
本文探讨了赞比亚当代非洲基督徒试图通过包含异象启示图画的新预言经文来稳定魅力权威，从而探讨了本土视觉概念的作用。这里展示了教会领袖寻求授权自己和圣经的参照链条如何涉及视觉悖论，最终导致圣经及其“作者”的降级。由于据说经文描述了通过观星也可以观察到的东西，一旦人们接受索引为现实，它的索引功能就变得过时了。
This article examines the role of indigenous concepts of visuality in an attempt by contemporary African Christians in Zambia to stabilize charismatic authority by means of a new prophetic scripture containing drawings of visionary revelations. It is demonstrated here how the chains of referentiality by which church leaders sought to authorize themselves and the scripture involved paradoxes of visuality that eventually led to the demotion of the scripture and its “author.” Since the scripture was said to depict what could also be observed by stargazing, its indexical function became obsolete once people accepted the indexed as reality.