Religious, nonreligious, and faith-based activism in the rebuilding of the Garrison Church in Potsdam

IF 1.3 0 RELIGION
Agnieszka Halemba
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ABSTRACT The aim of this contribution is to further understanding of how religious materiality becomes a focus of activism. Religion is present in a variety of ways in a secularised public space, and various people focus their activism around this presence – there are those who identify themselves as believers, those for whom religion is a part of cultural heritage, as well as those for whom religious materiality is mostly about aesthetics and cultural pleasures. In order to show a range of possible argumentations and motivations, I analyse just one event in a very complex story of the reconstruction of the tower of the Garrison Church in Potsdam, looking at various activist groups that took part in it. All these groups focus their activism around the rebuilding of a church – an ostensibly religious building – which is among the most prominent, but also the most controversial projects of this kind in contemporary Germany. This contribution brings into focus those elements of this long-term and unfinished debate that shed light on our understanding of religion-centred activism and proposes a differentiation between nonreligious and faith-based activism, as forms of religious activism.
波茨坦驻军教堂重建中的宗教、非宗教和基于信仰的行动主义
这篇文章的目的是进一步理解宗教物质性如何成为行动主义的焦点。宗教以各种方式出现在世俗化的公共空间中,各种各样的人将他们的行动集中在这种存在上——有些人认为自己是信徒,有些人认为宗教是文化遗产的一部分,还有一些人认为宗教的物质性主要是关于美学和文化乐趣。为了展示一系列可能的论点和动机,我只分析了波茨坦驻军教堂塔楼重建这个非常复杂的故事中的一个事件,并考察了参与其中的各种激进组织。所有这些团体都把他们的行动集中在重建教堂上——一个表面上的宗教建筑——这是当代德国最突出的,但也是最具争议的项目之一。这篇文章聚焦了这场长期且未完成的辩论中的一些因素,这些因素揭示了我们对以宗教为中心的行动主义的理解,并提出了非宗教行动主义和基于信仰的行动主义之间的区别,作为宗教行动主义的形式。
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期刊介绍: Religion, State & Society has a long-established reputation as the leading English-language academic publication focusing on communist and formerly communist countries throughout the world, and the legacy of the encounter between religion and communism. To augment this brief Religion, State & Society has now expanded its coverage to include religious developments in countries which have not experienced communist rule, and to treat wider themes in a more systematic way. The journal encourages a comparative approach where appropriate, with the aim of revealing similarities and differences in the historical and current experience of countries, regions and religions, in stability or in transition.
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