“你知道，教会从来没有在所有事情上达成一致”：牧师布道中的预言和务实声音分析

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION

Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srad003

Laura M. Krull, C. Gilliland

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摘要

神职人员经常有机会在每周的布道中对社会问题采取预言性的立场，但他们也有责任维护组织的稳定。他们如何回应有争议的教派决定？我们收集了联合卫理公会（UMC）神职人员在2019年UMC决定维持对同性婚姻和女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、变性人和酷儿（LGBTQ）圣职的禁令后的布道。我们对447个布道样本的定性分析揭示了神职人员对UMC决定的三种回应策略：先知参与、统一讨论和超然承认。此外，我们还表明，不同的策略可能与牧师对与会者态度的看法有关。一些神职人员愿意用一种克制的预言性声音来支持LGBTQ人群，但大多数神职人员在他们的评论与尽量减少冲突的务实努力之间取得了平衡。因此，一种更具包容性的宗教声音出现了，但可能会因会众的担忧而减弱。

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“You Know, the Church Has Never Agreed on Everything”: Analyzing the Prophetic and Pragmatic Voice in Clergy Sermons

Clergy have regular opportunities to take a prophetic stance on social issues in their weekly sermons, but they are also responsible for maintaining organizational stability. How do they respond to controversial denominational decisions? We collected sermons from United Methodist Church (UMC) clergy following the 2019 UMC decision to maintain their prohibition against same sex marriage and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) ordination. Our qualitative analysis of a sample of 447 sermons reveals three strategies clergy use to respond to the UMC decision: prophetic engagement, unifying discussion, and detached acknowledgment. Further, we show that different strategies are likely tied to the pastor’s perception of the attitudes of their attendees. Some clergy are willing to use a constrained prophetic voice in support of LGBTQ people, but most balance their comments with pragmatic efforts to minimize conflict. As a result, a more inclusive religious voice is present, but it may be muted by congregational concerns.

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期刊介绍： Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.