Questions of discipline are, today, no less ubiquitous than when under Foucault’s renowned scrutiny, but what does ‘discipline’ in diverse religious systems actually entail? In this article, we take ‘lenience’ rather than discipline as a starting point and compare its potential, both structural and ideological, in religious contexts where disciplinary flexibility shores up greater encompassing projects of moral perfectionism as opposed to those contexts in which disciplinary flexibility is a defining feature in its own right. We argue that lenience provides religious systems with a vital flexibility that is necessary to their reproduction and adaptation to the world. By taking a ‘systems’ perspective on ethnographic discussions of religious worlds, we proffer fresh observations on recent debates within the anthropology of religion on ‘ethics’, ‘failure’, and the nature of religious subjects.

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介绍

今天，纪律问题与福柯著名的审查时一样普遍，但不同宗教体系中的“纪律”究竟意味着什么？在本文中，我们将“宽大”而不是纪律作为起点，并在宗教环境中比较其在结构和意识形态方面的潜力，在这些环境中，纪律灵活性支持更大范围的道德完美主义项目，而不是那些纪律灵活性受到限制的环境。本身就是一个决定性的特征。我们认为，宽大为宗教体系提供了至关重要的灵活性，这是它们复制和适应世界所必需的。通过对宗教世界的民族志讨论采取“系统”的观点，我们对宗教人类学中最近关于“伦理”的辩论提出了新的观察，