Translating The Devil. Religion and Modernity among The Ewe in Ghana (cf. Arch. supra. Sandra Fancello). Édimbourg, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 260 p. (cf. Arch. supra, pp. 43-53).
Translating The Devil. Religion and Modernity among The Ewe in Ghana (cf. Arch. supra. Sandra Fancello). Édimbourg, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 260 p. (cf. Arch. supra, pp. 43-53).
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翻译魔鬼。加纳埃维人的宗教与现代性（参见上文 Arch. Sandra Fancello），爱丁堡大学出版社，1999 年，260 页（参见上文 Arch.，第 43-53 页）。
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这本书提供了一个民族志的出现，当地基督教和它的关系，不断变化的社会，政治和经济形成之间的佩基埃维在加纳。侧重于福音派长老会，这是从埃维和德国虔诚派传教士之间的遭遇而产生的，作者考察了最近的冲突，导致许多五旬节导向的成员脱离，它放置在一个历史的角度。主要的论点是，对埃维人来说，参与现代性与世界的新魅力而不是祛魅密切相关。在基层，研究的重点是魔鬼的形象，这是传教士通过翻译传达给母羊，目前在五旬节教会受到很大的关注。它表明，这种形象发挥了，仍然发挥着至关重要的作用，在当地的挪用基督教，因为恶魔证实了当地的神和巫术的存在，并将它们纳入基督教信仰的恶魔。比较使命和五旬节教会的话语和实践，研究表明，后者更加关注撒旦-特别是通过“拯救”仪式。因此，五旬节派越来越受欢迎，这是因为它与历史上当地对基督教的理解有关，尽管他们宣称不喜欢非基督教的宗教习俗，但他们更接近于埃维宗教，而不是传教士基督教。随着其对魔鬼的混合形象和人们的痴迷与神秘力量作为一种方式来调解现代性的吸引力和不满的重点，这本书揭示了迄今为止被忽视的非洲基督教研究的层面。
This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of a local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana. Focusing on the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which arose from encounters between the Ewe and German Piestist missionaries, the author examines recent conflicts leading to the secession of many pentecostally oriented members, which it places in a historical perspective. The main argument is that, for the Ewe, involvement with modernity goes hand in hand with new enchantment, rather than disenchantment, of the world. At the grassroots level, the study focuses on the image of the Devil, which the missionaries communicated to the Ewe through translation and which currently receives much attention in the Pentecostal churches. It is shown that this image played and still plays a crucial role in the local appropriation of Christianity, since diabolisation confirmed the existence of local gods and witchcraft and incorporated them into Christian belief as demons. Comparing the discourses and practices of mission and Pentecostal churches, the study reveals that the latter pay much more attention to Satan - especially through 'deliverance' rituals. Pentecostalism's increasing popularity thus stems from the fact that it ties into historically generated local understandings of Christianity, which, despite a declared dislike of non-Christian religious practices, stand much closer to Ewe religion than missionary Christianity. With its emphasis on the hybrid image of the Devil and people's obsessions with occult forces as a way to mediate the attractions and discontents of modernity, this book sheds light on a hitherto neglected dimension in studies of African Christianity.