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Charismatic Christianity's Hard Cultural Forms and the Local Patterning of the Divine Voice in Ghana
American Anthropologist ( IF 2.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 , DOI: 10.1111/aman.13523
John Dulin 1
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In Ghana, many Charismatic Christians see their spiritual lives as very different from those of “Traditionalists,” practitioners of Ghana's indigenous religion. This article argues that, while there are differences in how each group experiences spirit or divinity, their spiritual experiences share much in common due to, what Strathern calls, “partial connections.” Charismatic Christian spiritual experiences stand out in creating a rupture with the preceding context and highlighting the qualities of inner thought. By contrast, spiritual experiences of Traditionalists give less attention to inner thoughts. Also, they are less characterized by rupture and more by contextual continuity. However, there are patterns of experience these two ritual communities hold in common. Both Charismatic Christian and Traditionalists experience the divine as exerting difficult‐to‐resist pressure. Also, members of both communities tend to blur the line between mental and sensory experience of spiritual entities. I argue that overlapping elements of their shared cultural lifeworld help constitute these common experiential patterns. This article shows that, in some cases, cultural forms with distinct origins interact in a semi‐coherent way to shape the texture of experience. In doing so, it contributes to anthropological thinking on cultural change that occurs at the intersection of local and global cultural forms. [religious experience, indigenous religion, Charismatic Christianity, Ghana]

中文翻译:

魅力基督教的硬文化形式和加纳神之声音的本地模式

在加纳,许多超凡魅力的基督徒认为他们的精神生活与加纳土著宗教的实践者“传统主义者”的精神生活截然不同。本文认为,尽管每个群体在体验精神或神性的方式上存在差异,但由于斯特拉森(Strathern)所说的“部分联系”,他们的精神体验具有许多共同点。具有超凡魅力的基督教精神经历在与上述情况发生破裂并突出内在思想的品质方面脱颖而出。相比之下,传统主义者的精神经历却很少关注内在思想。而且,它们的特征较少是破裂,而更多的是上下文连续性。但是,这两个仪式社区有共同的经历模式。具有超凡魅力的基督教徒和传统主义者都对神施加了难以抵抗的压力。同样,两个社区的成员都倾向于模糊精神实体的心理和感官体验之间的界线。我认为,他们共同的文化生活世界的重叠元素有助于构成这些共同的体验模式。本文表明,在某些情况下,具有不同渊源的文化形式会以半连贯的方式相互作用,从而塑造体验的质地。这样,它有助于在地方和全球文化形式交汇处发生的关于文化变化的人类学思考。[ 我认为,他们共同的文化生活世界的重叠元素有助于构成这些共同的体验模式。本文表明,在某些情况下,具有不同渊源的文化形式会以半连贯的方式相互作用,从而塑造体验的质地。这样,它有助于在地方和全球文化形式交汇处发生的关于文化变化的人类学思考。[ 我认为,他们共同的文化生活世界的重叠元素有助于构成这些共同的体验模式。本文表明,在某些情况下,具有不同渊源的文化形式会以半连贯的方式相互作用,从而塑造体验的质地。这样,它有助于在地方和全球文化形式交汇处发生的关于文化变化的人类学思考。[宗教经验,土著宗教,魅力基督教,加纳]
更新日期:2020-12-22
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