ABSTRACT

Our case study is the Federation of Damanhur, one of the most long-lived spiritual communities in Europe, located in Catholic Italy. Every year, Damanhur hosts thousands of visitors who experience the community thanks to daily tours, weekly stays and seminars. These visitors can be simply curious, sympathizers or spiritual seekers. In this paper we present the ‘ten days Amine experience’, a participant observation performed by one of the authors during the summer of 2016 in a group mainly composed of spiritual seekers. This experience is here analyzed through a performative approach that is particularly suited to analyzing the Damanhur site and which presents itself as a hierarchy of spaces designed for one or more performance modalities. The research highlights the existence of a dialectic between the motivational characteristics of Aminè spiritual seekers, on the one hand, and the communitarian and esoteric characteristics of Damanhur, on the other, which determine a gap between the expectations and the degree of satisfaction of these spiritual seekers.

摘要

我们的案例研究是达曼胡尔联合会，它是欧洲最长寿的精神社区之一，位于天主教意大利。每年，达曼胡尔都会接待数以千计的游客，他们通过每日旅游、每周住宿和研讨会来体验社区。这些访客可能只是好奇、同情者或精神追求者。在本文中，我们介绍了“十天胺体验”，这是作者之一在 2016 年夏天在一个主要由精神寻求者组成的团体中进行的参与观察。这种体验在这里通过一种特别适合分析达曼胡尔遗址的表演方法进行分析，该方法将自己呈现为为一种或多种表演方式设计的空间层次结构。