Traditional and Nontraditional Forms of Popular Religion in Sicily

西西里岛民间宗教的传统和非传统形式

• 批准号: 9005857
• 负责人: George Saunders
• 金额: $ 13.22万
• 依托单位: LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-08-01 至 1993-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9005857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Traditional; Nontraditional; Forms; Popular; Religion

This project supports two cultural anthropologists studying ways in which Protestant Pentecostalism and more traditional or Catholic forms of popular religion are involved in the creation of new cultural models of gender, family, and definitions of personhood in southern Italy. Popular religionists and Pentecostals are found in close interaction within the same families, kin networks, and neighborhoods. The project will examine similarities and differences in these cultural models by studying domestic relations, healing performances, conversion accounts and life histories, and in the house shrines. Two principal investigators will conduct the research in two major urban centers of Sicily -- Palermo and Catania. In each field site participant-observation will be supplemented by survey analysis and oral historical methods, comparing Pentecostal church members, non-Pentecostal kin of church members, former members (dropouts) of the Pentecostal churches, and in a group of popular religionists without connections to Pentecostalism. This research is important because popular religion is an important force in most of the world's cultures, and understanding the dynamics of the relation between newer and older forms of popular religion will help us understand how religions wax and wane in importance.

该项目支持两位文化人类学家研究新教五旬节派和更传统的或天主教形式的大众宗教如何参与意大利南部性别、家庭和人格定义的新文化模式的创造。大众宗教信徒和五旬节派信徒在同一个家庭、亲属网络和社区中有着密切的互动。该项目将通过研究家庭关系、治愈表演、皈依记录和生活史以及家庭神殿来研究这些文化模式的异同。两名主要研究人员将在西西里岛的两个主要城市中心——巴勒莫和卡塔尼亚进行研究。在每个现场，参与者观察将辅以调查分析和口述历史方法，比较五旬节派教会成员、非五旬节派教会成员的亲属、五旬节派教会的前成员（辍学者）、以及一群与五旬节派无关的大众宗教人士。这项研究很重要，因为民间宗教在世界上大多数文化中都是一股重要的力量，了解新旧形式的民间宗教之间关系的动态将有助于我们理解宗教的重要性是如何起起落落的。