澳大利亚上帝王国普世教会:一个非巴西移民的教会

IF 1 3区哲学 0 RELIGION

Social Compass Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI:10.1177/00377686211001028

K. Openshaw

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摘要

上帝王国普世教会（UCKG）是一个巴西新五旬节大教会。过去40年多年来，它在100多个经济和社会边缘化国家建立了分支机构。这在澳大利亚也是如此，那里的会众是来自不同种族背景的被剥夺权利的移民和（前）难民。2上的图纸这篇文章在UCKG澳大利亚总部进行了多年的民族志研究，探讨了为什么一座看似令人讨厌的巴西教堂会吸引澳大利亚的多元文化移民会众。我认为，UCKG对这些会众有吸引力，因为它提供了一个接受其追随者种族的空间；它的宇宙观很容易转化为其会众多样化的精神情感；它为那些处于澳大利亚社会边缘的人提供了克服生活障碍的“开拓性技术”。这项工作为有关巴西境外的巴西宗教信仰以及宗教在移民安置中所起作用的学术文献做出了贡献。

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The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Australia: A church of non-Brazilian migrants

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) is a Brazilian neo-Pentecostal megachurch. Over the past 40 years, it has established branches in over 100 countries among the economically and socially marginalised. This holds true in Australia, where congregants are disenfranchised migrants from diverse ethnic backgrounds and (former) refugees. Drawing on 2 years of ethnographic research in the UCKG’s Australian headquarters, this article explores why a Brazilian church, with a seemingly disagreeable character, attracts a multicultural migrant congregation in Australia. I argue that the UCKG is attractive to these congregants because it provides a space where its followers’ ethnicity is accepted; its cosmovision is easily translated to its congregation’s diverse spiritual sensibilities; and it offers ‘pioneering techniques’ to overcome life obstacles for those on the margins of Australian society. This work contributes to scholarly literature concerning Brazilian religiosity outside of Brazil, and the role religion plays in migrant settlement.

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Social Compass Multiple-

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： Social Compass is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on the sociology of religion. It aims to reflect the wide variety of research being carried out by sociologists of religion in all countries. Part of each issue consists of invited articles on a particular theme; for the unthemed part of the journal, articles will be considered on any topic that bears upon religion in contemporary societies. Issue 2 each year contains selected papers from the biennial conferences of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR). Readers are also invited to contribute to the Forum section.