Exorcism Untangled: investigating Deliverance ceremonies among middle-class Pentecostal Congregation in Johannesburg, South Africa.

解开驱魔：调查南非约翰内斯堡中产阶级五旬节教会的释放仪式。

• 批准号: 2446620
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2446620
• 关键词: Exorcism; Untangled; investigating; Deliverance; ceremonies

The overarching goal of this ethnographic study is the investigation of the contemporary practice of deliverance in Pentecostal churches in South Africa, in relation to the broader socio-political climate of the country. The aim of this project is to contribute to the comparative concern of the growing subfield of the Anthropology of Christianity and more specifically, the Anthropology of Pentecostalism, while also addressing the lack of in-depth studies surrounding deliverance ceremonies in South Africa. This research will be built upon influential studies that identify within Pentecostalism a dichotomy between the concepts of "modernity" and "tradition", investigating the different socio-cultural and socio-economic patterns that exists within the Pentecostal parishioners, examining the shift that has occurred within the practice and significance of the rituals, given the socio-cultural changes the post-apartheid period has brough to the surface. Through this ethnographic research, I aim to study the lived experience of middle-class, multi-racial South African Pentecostals, creating links between the long and intricate colonial history of the country and the religious identity of Pentecostal believers. These goals will be achieved by investigating and conducting extensive fieldwork in two Pentecostal churches in the Roodepoort province in Johannesburg, South Africa. "Liberty Church" and the "Pentecostal Holiness Church Davidsonville" are a mega-church and a community church, accordingly, with a multi-generational and multi-racial profile that belong in an environment consisting of a middle-class of people coming from different backgrounds, including parishioners of European, African and Asian heritage and many interracial families. My research objectives will be met by engaging in a phenomenological methodology that will allow me to create an analytical model, free of pre-existing literature biases, approaching deliverance through the individual perspective that is influenced by the local "cosmological repertoire". This methodological perspective will be accompanied by multiple in-depth interviews with key informants that will provide my work with a detailed understanding of the believers' lives. With this project, I hope to diminish any pre-assumptions and misconceptions surrounding deliverance, both in the academic corpus, as well as in the minds of non-Pentecostals, by showcasing the ways through which these ceremonies provide believers with the necessary tools needed to position themselves within the turbulent past, their present and unpredictable future.

这项民族志研究的首要目标是调查南非五旬节派教会当代的拯救实践，并与该国更广泛的社会政治气候相联系。该项目的目的是促进基督教人类学日益增长的子领域的比较关注，更具体地说，五旬节人类学，同时也解决了缺乏深入研究周围的拯救仪式在南非。这项研究将建立在有影响力的研究，确定在五旬节派的“现代性”和“传统”的概念之间的二分法，调查不同的社会文化和社会经济模式，存在于五旬节派教区居民，研究已经发生的变化的做法和意义的仪式，鉴于社会文化的变化后种族隔离时期已经浮出水面。通过这种民族志研究，我的目标是研究中产阶级，多种族南非五旬节派的生活经验，建立该国漫长而复杂的殖民历史和五旬节派信徒的宗教身份之间的联系。这些目标将通过在南非约翰内斯堡的鲁德波特省的两个五旬节派教堂进行调查和广泛的实地考察来实现。“自由教会”和“五旬节圣洁教会达维森维尔”是一个大型教会和社区教会，因此具有多代和多种族的特征，属于由来自不同背景的中产阶级组成的环境，包括欧洲、非洲和亚洲血统的教区居民和许多跨种族家庭。我的研究目标将通过从事现象学的方法来实现，这将使我能够创建一个分析模型，不受先前存在的文献偏见的影响，通过受当地“宇宙学剧目”影响的个人视角来接近解脱。这种方法论的观点将伴随着对关键线人的多次深入采访，这将使我的工作对信徒的生活有一个详细的了解。有了这个项目，我希望减少任何预先假设和误解周围的解脱，无论是在学术语料库，以及在非五旬节派的头脑，通过展示这些仪式提供信徒的方式与必要的工具，需要定位自己在动荡的过去，他们的现在和不可预测的未来。