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| Orthodox Hybridities: Anti-Syncretism and Localization in the Evangelical Christianity of Thailand | ||
| 作者 | Zehner, Edwin |
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| 出處題名 | Anthropological Quarterly |
| 卷期 | v.78 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2005 |
| 頁次 | 585 - 617 |
| 出版者 | George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research |
| 出版者網址 | https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/institute-ethnographic-research |
| 出版地 | Washington, DC, US [華盛頓, 哥倫比亞特區, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | christianity; religion; religions; syncretism; hybridity |
| 摘要 | At the turn of the twenty-first century, evangelicals employ a brand of anti-syncretism that incorporates a substantial amount of hybridity. This creativity inside a framework of seeming inflexibility is one of the things that helps evangelical Christianity localize while "holding its shape." It also enables conversions to be grounded in idiosyncratic experience while enabling those conversions to present as orthodox. Employing interviews with ethnic Thai and Sino-Thai who have converted from Buddhism to Christianity, the article explores two mechanisms of hybridity that can be observed among Thai evangelicals. Hybridities of extension fit locally specific material into frames that are transculturally shared, while hybridities of transition exploit cognitive and terminological overlaps that facilitate a person's movement across otherwise discrete religious boundaries. Together, these orthodox hybridities give evangelical Christianity a feel of the local while preserving converts' sense of being loyal to a transculturally shared set of teachings. [Christianity, conversion, Thailand, evangelicals, hybridity] To be human is to be a syncretist…Even a prophet…needs the speech and the situation of his audience in order to be comprehensible…(Kamstra 1970:23, translated and quoted in Pye 1971:84) |
| 目次 | Syncretism and Orthodoxy in the Evangelical Cont 591 The Rise of Thai Evangelicalism 594 Two Kinds of Hybridit 595 Hybridities of Extension in Conversion Story Themes 596 The Theme of Love 597 The Theme of Divine Power 692 Transitional Hybridities and Story Repair 604 Conclusion 610 |
| ISSN | 00035491 (P); 15341518 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 508 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.11.25 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.11.18 |
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