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Enterprising Evangelicalism: Distinction and Inclusion in Contemporary American Christian Religious Periodicals

进取的福音派：当代美国基督教宗教期刊的区分与包容

基本信息

批准号：
222346370
负责人：
Professor Dr. Oliver Scheiding
金额：
--
依托单位：
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Units
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2012-12-31 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/222346370?language=en
关键词：
Enterprising Evangelicalism Distinction Inclusion Contemporary

项目摘要

This research project investigates the role played by religious periodicals in producing affiliation to Evangelicalism in the United States. Since the colonial period, the religious pluralism that evolved during the historical and constitutional development of the U.S. has affected a competition for followers in the various Christian religious communities. While believers often become life-long members of an official denomination (Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, etc.) simply by having been born into and raised in a particular denomination, the religious market in the U.S. offers a plethora of options for voluntary church affiliations with few restrictions or requirements regarding the degree of commitment or duration of membership. In addition to the official Christian church denominations, there are free associations of believers, countless religious sects, and non-denominational communities, like Evangelicalism, which fall in between traditional patterns of religious classification. This research project compares three different social types of religious formations (movement, church, and sect) by examining the Evangelical magazine Christianity Today and comparing it to the official church magazine U.S. Catholic and the Jehovah Witness magazine Awake to discover the ways in which the Christian periodical press functions in the context of different religious communities, how they are utilized to create religious affiliations and distinctions, and how they help to blur religious boundaries and forge new alliances among believers. For this purpose, the research project will analyze periodicals as religious enterprises through the study of the communicative infrastructure (print and digital formats), the staff of the magazines (publishers, editors, writers, etc.), and the target audiences to find out how periodicals are instrumental for processes of religious differentiation and identification, and how Evangelicalism can be understood as a religio-social movement.

本研究项目调查宗教期刊在美国福音派中所扮演的角色。自殖民时期以来，在美国历史和宪法发展过程中演变的宗教多元化影响了各种基督教宗教社区对追随者的竞争。虽然信徒往往成为一个官方教派（天主教，浸信会，卫理公会，路德会，长老会等）的终身成员。美国的宗教市场提供了大量自愿加入教会的选择，而对承诺的程度或成员资格的持续时间几乎没有限制或要求。除了官方的基督教教派，还有信徒的自由协会，无数的宗教教派和非宗教团体，如福音派，它们属于传统的宗教分类模式之间。这个研究项目比较了三种不同的社会类型的宗教形成（运动，教会和教派）通过检查福音派杂志《今日基督教》，并将其与官方教会杂志《乌伊多斯天主教》和《耶和华见证人》杂志《觉醒》进行比较，以发现基督教期刊出版社在不同宗教社区背景下发挥作用的方式，它们如何被用来建立宗教联系和区别，以及它们如何有助于模糊宗教界限和在信徒之间建立新的联盟。为此，该研究项目将通过研究传播基础设施（印刷和数字格式），杂志工作人员（出版商，编辑，作家等），和目标受众，以找出如何期刊是宗教分化和识别过程中的工具，以及如何福音派可以被理解为一个宗教社会运动。