Pentecostals do not fit the dominant narrative of a secular age constructed by Charles Taylor. Instead, Pentecostalism is a religion at play that engages with the secular without accepting its authority. A critical dialogue with Taylor’s foundational proposal of the central conditions of premodern life that have made room for our modern secular world demonstrates how and why these conditions are not met in Pentecostalism. The article then identifies the alternative mechanisms in place in Pentecostalism as a form of religion at play manifested in an enchanted worldview, sociospiritual attachment, the festival of Pentecost, the transformation of secular time, and a porous cosmos. A close examination of the notion of play in Taylor’s narrative illuminates in more detail the ill fit of Pentecostalism in the history of a secular age and reveals that Pentecostalism represents a condition of religion that resolves the tension between sacred and secular and that challenges the dominance of “secular” and “religious” as uncontested ideas of our modern world.

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宗教游戏

五旬节派不适合查尔斯·泰勒（Charles Taylor）建构的世俗时代的主流叙述。相反，五旬节主义是一种正在发挥作用的宗教，在不接受其权威的情况下与世俗交往。与泰勒关于前现代生活的中心条件的基本建议的批判性对话为我们的现代世俗世界腾出了空间，表明了五旬节教派如何以及为什么不满足这些条件。然后，本文确定了五旬节主义中存在的替代机制，作为一种宗教形式发挥了作用，体现在一种迷人的世界观，社会精神依恋，五旬节的节日，世俗时间的转变和多孔的宇宙中。