ABSTRACT

This paper explores religious perceptions of disasters and their implications for post-disaster processes of religious and cultural change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in post-tsunami Samoa, this study investigates how people in two tsunami-affected villages make sense of the tsunami, its causes and impact based on different Christian understandings: the tsunami as divine punishment or as a sign of the Second Coming. I argue that these different perceptions of the tsunami are used in bringing about or opposing religious and cultural change based on different ideals of continuity and change.

中文翻译：

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宗教在当地对灾难的认识中的作用：萨摩亚海啸后的宗教和社会变革

摘要

本文探讨了宗教对灾难的看法及其对灾难后宗教和文化变革过程的影响。基于萨摩亚海啸后的民族志田野调查，本研究调查了两个受海啸影响的村庄的人们如何理解海啸，海啸的成因和影响，这是基于不同的基督教徒的理解：海啸是神圣的惩罚还是第二次降临的标志。我认为，对海啸的这些不同理解被用于基于不同的连续性和变革理想来实现或反对宗教和文化变革。