Religion, Nationalism, and Transnational Civil Society in the Eritrean Diaspora
Religion, Nationalism, and Transnational Civil Society in the Eritrean Diaspora
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厄立特里亚侨民中的宗教、民族主义和跨国公民社会
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2003
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T. Hepner
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T. Hepner
本文探讨了宗教的出现和意义，在美国作为一个基础，建立社区散居，重新配置民族主义身份，并构成跨国公民社会。它提出了三个相关的观点：宗教身份和集会有助于缓解削弱了世俗侨民协会的分裂的政治身份;通过宗教实践厄立特里亚身份挑战厄立特里亚国家跨国控制侨民社区和支配国家身份的霸权;宗教团体作为跨国渠道的出现，为散居国外的厄立特里亚人提供了一个抵制国家集权要求的自治空间。通过对厄立特里亚和一个美国侨民社区的宗教身份和教会机构进行关键的人种学调查，本文表明，美国和厄立特里亚之间不平衡的跨国网络为政治行动创造了新的空间。具体而言，教会的相对自治和他们的跨国主义的开端允许散居的厄立特里亚人利用宗教在一个新兴的跨国公民社会的宪法。
This article examines the emergence and significance of religion among Eritreans in the United States as a basis for building community in diaspora, reconfiguring nationalist identity, and constituting transnational civil society. It argues three related points: that religious identity and gatherings help mitigate against fractured political identities that have weakened secular diaspora associations; that practicing Eritrean identity through religion challenges the hegemonic power of the Eritrean state to transnationally control diaspora communities and dictate national identity; and that the very incipience of religious bodies as transnational avenues provides Eritreans in diaspora with an autonomous space to resist the state's totalizing demands. Through a critical ethnographic investigation of religious identity and church bodies in Eritrea and one United States diaspora community, the article shows that uneven transnational networks between the United States and Eritrea create new spaces for political action. Specifically, the relative autonomy of churches and the incipience of their transnationalism allow diaspora Eritreans to use religion in the constitution of an emergent transnational civil society.