ABSTRACT Kenya and South Africa are two settings in which the upwardly-aspiring ‘new middle class’ has been particularly noted: its members desire to transcend the hierarchies and inequalities that once kept some from achieving prosperity. Based on research in South Africa, this article goes beyond a focus on narrowly economic aspects of this class to explore the role of the Pentecostal or neo-charismatic churches in articulating and (re)shaping its subjective values and orientations. Alongside expectations of abundant wealth, these churches affirm the positive qualities that work can endow, a capitalist-style interest in property investment, an inculcation of rational subdivision and allocation of one’s income to diverse ends, and a redistributive approach to economic arrangements. At the same time, church membership allows for self-reflection and critical citizenship: congregants have a nuanced self-awareness of the way in which their new status separates them from those with fewer privileges and less access to the benefits of modernity, and are able to deliberate reflexively about the character of these privileges.

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新主体性：抱负、繁荣和新中产阶级

摘要 肯尼亚和南非是有抱负的“新中产阶级”特别引人注目的两个环境：其成员渴望超越曾经阻碍一些人实现繁荣的等级制度和不平等。基于在南非的研究，本文超越了对这一类狭隘经济方面的关注，探讨了五旬节派或新魅力教会在阐明和（重新）塑造其主观价值观和取向方面的作用。除了对丰富财富的期望之外，这些教会还肯定工作可以赋予的积极品质，对房地产投资的资本主义式兴趣，灌输理性细分和将收入分配到不同目的，以及对经济安排的再分配方法。同时，