成功福音:辩论非洲的现代性和散居的非洲人

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Journal of Africana Religions Pub Date : 2021-02-03 DOI:10.5325/JAFRIRELI.9.1.0042

James Kwateng-Yeboah

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摘要:关于五旬节派通过其广泛传播的“成功福音”影响现代性的作用的争论仍然没有定论。尽管韦伯的《新教伦理》一直被引用，但社会学分析表明，成功福音挑战了韦伯对现代性的主导概念。一方面，这一学说以其普遍存在的“魅力”驳斥了韦伯关于现代社会的核心主张。另一方面，成功福音具有人类自主和企业家精神的现代特征。成功神学是否同时展示了现代和反现代的主题?本文以非洲和散居海外的非洲为例，批判性地回顾了现代性是如何作为一个复杂的类别来分析成功福音和五旬节派的。这篇文章表明现代性不可避免地受到它所遇到的社会的历史和文化背景的影响，并论证了“多重现代性”范式作为一种分析框架的潜力，它更好地捕捉了非洲背景的现实，尤其是五旬节派和成功福音。

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The Prosperity Gospel: Debating Modernity in Africa and the African Diaspora

Abstract:Debates over the role of Pentecostalism in effecting modernity through its widespread "prosperity gospel" remain inconclusive. Though Weber's Protestant Ethic has been persistently invoked, sociological analyses reveal that the prosperity gospel challenges dominant Weberian conceptualizations of modernity. On one hand, the doctrine refutes Weber's central claim of modern societies by its pervasive "enchantment." On the other hand, the prosperity gospel shares modern traits of human autonomy and entrepreneurship. Does the prosperity gospel demonstrate simultaneously modern and antimodern themes? Using cases from Africa and the African diaspora, this essay critically reviews how modernity has functioned as a complicated category for analyses of the prosperity gospel and for Pentecostalism. Showing that modernity is mediated irreducibly by the historical and cultural backgrounds of the society it encounters, the essay argues for the potency of the "multiple modernities" paradigm as an analytical framework that better captures realities of Africana contexts, notably Pentecostalism and the prosperity gospel.

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Africana Religions publishes critical scholarship on Africana religions, including the religious traditions of African and African Diasporic peoples as well as religious traditions influenced by the diverse cultural heritage of Africa. An interdisciplinary journal encompassing history, anthropology, Africana studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, and other allied disciplines, the Journal of Africana Religions embraces a variety of humanistic and social scientific methodologies in understanding the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of Africana religions.