The Church Sinister

IF 0.4 0 RELIGION Journal of Religion in Europe Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI:10.1163/18748929-bja10073
Marcus Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes, Barbara A. H. Harmes
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The exorcism of Michael Taylor in 1974, which led to murder, pushed Anglican exorcisms into the public gaze. This article proposes a particular trajectory of Anglicanism and the preternatural into popular culture and popular awareness of religion. The Taylor case was one of the catalysts for private anxiety among clergy about the preternatural in the Church of England. By the early 1970s, some clergy ignited public debate including open letters and television appearances to declare the Church of England should not exorcise and complete belief in the accounts of the Gospels was not necessary. Their debate moved to television, some clergy declaring on talk shows the Church should not exorcise, others consenting to be filmed exorcising. Clergy exorcising on screen gave visual cues and content to fictional drama that traversed different genres and channels. This article identifies a common element to drama showcasing the Church and the preternatural, showing the institution and its clergy as weak or absent in the face of evil. Drama brought to the fore clerical concerns that engaging publicly with the preternatural made the Church seem theologically confused and denuded of spiritual authority, a point reinforced by the tragic real-world consequences of the Anglican exorcism of Michael Taylor.
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教会的邪恶分子
1974年迈克尔·泰勒(Michael Taylor)的驱魔仪式导致了谋杀,将圣公会的驱魔仪式推向了公众的视线。本文提出了英国国教和超自然现象进入大众文化和大众宗教意识的特定轨迹。泰勒案是英格兰国教会神职人员对超自然现象私下焦虑的催化剂之一。到20世纪70年代初,一些神职人员引发了公众辩论,包括公开信和电视节目,他们宣称英格兰教会不应该驱魔,也没有必要完全相信福音书的记载。他们的辩论转移到了电视上,一些神职人员在谈话节目中宣称教会不应该驱魔,其他人同意拍摄驱魔过程。银幕上的神职人员驱魔为跨越不同类型和渠道的虚构戏剧提供了视觉线索和内容。这篇文章确定了戏剧展示教会和超自然现象的一个共同元素,显示机构及其神职人员在邪恶面前软弱或缺席。戏剧把神职人员的担忧带到了前台,即公开与超自然现象接触会使教会在神学上显得混乱,并剥夺了精神权威,圣公会驱魔迈克尔·泰勒的悲惨现实后果强化了这一点。
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期刊介绍: The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved.
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