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“A Web of Subversive Friends”: New Monasticism in the United States and South Africa

机译:“颠覆性朋友的网”:美国和南非的新修道院主义

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This article analyzes new monastic efforts to engage with systemic inequality in the United States and South Africa, arguing for the importance of the concept of friendship to new monastic social justice efforts. Growing in popularity during the 2000s, new monasticism is a term used to describe Christians who are experimenting with forms of community and subject formation that take as their inspiration earlier monastic or other Christian socialist/communitarian movements. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with two South African groups inspired by new monasticism, I show how building relationships with economic and racial others is central to new monastic visions of social change. New monastics emphasize the importance of deep, committed, authentic, relationships—friendships—as the primary means of surmounting race and class divides. Building on the insights of Michael Emerson and Christian Smith in Divided by Faith , I argue that how new monastics conceptualize friendship simultaneously draws on and subverts traditional evangelical approaches to social engagement. Although new monastics are similar to evangelicals in that they attach central importance to interpersonal relationships, new monastics are distinct in that they explicitly connect the value of relationship building to practices of self-transformation and social critique.
机译:本文分析了在美国和南非为解决系统性不平等现象而进行的新修道活动,认为友谊概念对新修道法社会正义活动的重要性。新修道院主义在2000年代日益流行,它是用来描述基督徒尝试以早期修道院或其他基督教社会主义/共产主义运动为灵感的社区形式和主体形态的基督徒。通过对两个受到新修道院主义启发的南非团体进行的定性研究,我展示了与经济和种族其他人建立关系对新的修道院社会变革观念的重要性。新僧侣强调深厚,忠诚,真诚的关系(友谊)的重要性,这是克服种族和阶级鸿沟的主要手段。基于迈克尔·爱默生和克里斯蒂安·史密斯在《信仰分开》中的见解,我认为,新的僧侣如何将友谊概念化,同时借鉴并颠覆了传统的福音派社会参与方法。尽管新修道者与福音派教士的相似之处在于它们非常重视人际关系,但新修道者却与众不同,因为它们明确地将建立关系的价值与自我转变和社会批判的实践联系起来。

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