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Questioning religio/secular temporalities: mediaeval formations of nation, Europe and race
Patterns of Prejudice ( IF 1.434 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-14 , DOI: 10.1080/0031322x.2019.1696050
Matthea Westerduin

ABSTRACT Though the flexibility of race is often acknowledged, race is still very often considered as not, or not primarily, related to religion. Such a notion of race is not only embedded in a distinction between religion and the secular (race as secular, disconnected from religion) but is also tied to a religio/secular temporalization: it excludes mediaeval (supposedly religious) discrimination from the analysis of modern (supposedly secular) race-making. This separation leaves unanswered the question of what role Christian vocabularies and religion have played in European racial formations. In this article, Westerduin aims to think together formations that are separated by the religio/secular: religion and race, and mediaeval and modern race. In doing so, she argues that a focus on ‘modernity’ and a disengagement with ‘pre-modern’ times hides from view intimate connections between Christian theology and supposedly areligious categories such as ‘race’, ‘nation’ and ‘Europe’. In the late Middle Ages, theology was not only fundamental with regard to the minoritization and racialization of non-Christians or non-proper Christians; Christian imageries were also intimately tied to the construction of ‘nation’ and ‘Europe’, thereby inserting religious/racial hierarchies in their very formation.

中文翻译:

质疑宗教/世俗的时间性:民族、欧洲和种族的中世纪形态

摘要 虽然种族的灵活性经常被承认,但种族仍然经常被认为与宗教无关,或者不主要与宗教有关。这种种族概念不仅植根于宗教与世俗之间的区别(作为世俗的种族,与宗教脱节),而且还与宗教/世俗的时间化有关:它从现代分析中排除了中世纪(据称是宗教)的歧视。 (据说是世俗的)种族制造。这种分离使基督教词汇和宗教在欧洲种族形成中扮演什么角色的问题没有得到解答。在本文中,Westerduin 旨在将被宗教/世俗分开的形式一起思考:宗教和种族,以及中世纪和现代种族。在这样做,她认为,对“现代性”的关注以及与“前现代”时代的脱节,掩盖了基督教神学与“种族”、“民族”和“欧洲”等所谓宗教类别之间的密切联系。在中世纪晚期,神学不仅是关于非基督徒或非正统基督徒的少数化和种族化的基础;基督教意象也与“民族”和“欧洲”的构建密切相关,从而在它们的形成过程中插入了宗教/种族等级制度。
更新日期:2020-03-14
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