Religion at Play

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Religion at Play "
Wolfgang Vondey

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1080960
Doc. No	:	LA124589
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700747-04001033‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Wolfgang Vondey
Title & Author	:	Religion at Play [Article]\ Wolfgang Vondey
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Pneuma
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	40/1-2
Page No	:	17–36
Abstract	:	Pentecostals do not fit the dominant narrative of a secular age constructed by Charles Taylor. Instead, Pentecostalism is a religion at play that engages with the secular without accepting its authority. A critical dialogue with Taylor’s foundational proposal of the central conditions of premodern life that have made room for our modern secular world demonstrates how and why these conditions are not met in Pentecostalism. The article then identifies the alternative mechanisms in place in Pentecostalism as a form of religion at play manifested in an enchanted worldview, sociospiritual attachment, the festival of Pentecost, the transformation of secular time, and a porous cosmos. A close examination of the notion of play in Taylor’s narrative illuminates in more detail the ill fit of Pentecostalism in the history of a secular age and reveals that Pentecostalism represents a condition of religion that resolves the tension between sacred and secular and that challenges the dominance of “secular” and “religious” as uncontested ideas of our modern world. Pentecostals do not fit the dominant narrative of a secular age constructed by Charles Taylor. Instead, Pentecostalism is a religion at play that engages with the secular without accepting its authority. A critical dialogue with Taylor’s foundational proposal of the central conditions of premodern life that have made room for our modern secular world demonstrates how and why these conditions are not met in Pentecostalism. The article then identifies the alternative mechanisms in place in Pentecostalism as a form of religion at play manifested in an enchanted worldview, sociospiritual attachment, the festival of Pentecost, the transformation of secular time, and a porous cosmos. A close examination of the notion of play in Taylor’s narrative illuminates in more detail the ill fit of Pentecostalism in the history of a secular age and reveals that Pentecostalism represents a condition of religion that resolves the tension between sacred and secular and that challenges the dominance of “secular” and “religious” as uncontested ideas of our modern world.
Descriptor	:	Charles Taylor
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Pentecostalism
Descriptor	:	play
Descriptor	:	religion
Descriptor	:	Romanticism
Descriptor	:	secularization
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700747-04001033‬