ABSTRACT

This essay argues that modalities of interreligious conflict and coexistence in Gondar, Ethiopia entail shifting sites of discernibility and concealment. In religiously mixed interactions, both parties tend to see concealment as a key facet of a self-conscious ethical project of harmonious, interreligious relations. Hence, many reserve interreligious evaluations for homogenous settings of religious insiders, where the expressions cannot frame real-time mixed interactions in antagonistic terms. On occasion, though, the concealment is unsustainable, and interreligious evaluations leak into shared spaces, becoming discernible in a mutually recognisable way, thus creating open conflict. Adhering to norms of concealment marks one as a respectful other, however, these norms can conflict with religious ethical imperatives. The way they conflict differs for Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Pentecostals. Moreover, the significance attributed to concealment/revelation within religious and interreligious value frameworks often shapes patterns of relations across religious boundaries, including routine mutuality, ambivalence, and escalating tensions.

摘要

本文认为，埃塞俄比亚贡德尔的宗教间冲突和共存模式需要转移可识别性和隐蔽性的场所。在宗教混合的互动中，双方倾向于将隐藏视为和谐、宗教间关系的自觉伦理计划的一个关键方面。因此，许多人对宗教内部人士的同质环境保留了宗教间评估，在这种环境中，表达方式无法以对立的方式构建实时混合互动。但有时，这种隐瞒是不可持续的，宗教间的评价会渗入共享空间，以相互识别的方式变得可辨，从而产生公开冲突。遵守隐瞒规范标志着一个人是一个尊重他人的人，然而，这些规范可能与宗教伦理要求相冲突。东正教基督徒、穆斯林和五旬节派的冲突方式各不相同。此外，归因于宗教和宗教间价值框架内的隐藏/揭示的重要性通常会塑造跨宗教边界的关系模式，包括常规的相互关系、矛盾心理和不断升级的紧张局势。