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Desire for Deliverance 渴望解脱

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Pub Date : 2020-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0011

J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly

In this chapter, we identify how megachurches meet attendees’ desire for deliverance. The preaching and music produce high levels of emotional energy that need to be released. In particular, altar calls and healing services are the emotional peaks of the church service, following the worship singing and sermons. These moments allow attendees to release the emotional energy that has built up from the service and in their lives. These are collective experiences in which individuals transform and watch others do the same. In response to the experience of deliverance, individuals are asked to serve their church and communities as an expression of their faith.

在这一章中，我们将探讨大型教会如何满足与会者对拯救的渴望。讲道和音乐产生了需要释放的高水平的情感能量。特别是，在敬拜唱诗和讲道之后，祭坛呼召和医治服务是教会服务的情感高峰。这些时刻让与会者释放从服务和他们的生活中建立起来的情感能量。这是一种集体体验，在这种体验中，个人会改变，并看着其他人也这样做。作为对救赎经历的回应，个人被要求为他们的教会和社区服务，以此来表达他们的信仰。

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Dissecting Megachurch Scandals 剖析教会丑闻

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Pub Date : 2020-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0014

J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly

This chapter examines the dark side of megachurches by quantifying and theorizing megachurch scandals. We collected data on megachurch scandals and identified fifty-six such scandals discussed in forty-eight online newspaper articles for the years 2006 to 2017. Most of the scandals that we studied came from the malfeasance of megachurch senior pastors, and the vast majority were sexual in nature. The charismatic bond that megachurch pastors form with their attendees and the power that stems from it can be used for their own personal gain. We theorize a form of soft patriarchalism as a way to name this power differential. We contend that the model of soft patriarchalism gives power to men and creates opportunities for them to manipulate and ruin the lives of women under their care. These scandals often lead to the implosion of megachurches, where the charismatic bond between the pastor and congregation is irrevocably broken.

本章通过量化和理论化大型教会的丑闻来审视大型教会的阴暗面。我们收集了有关大型教会丑闻的数据，并在2006年至2017年的48篇在线报纸文章中确定了56起此类丑闻。我们研究的大多数丑闻都来自于大型教会高级牧师的渎职行为，而且绝大多数都与性有关。大型教会的牧师与他们的信徒之间建立的有魅力的纽带，以及由此产生的力量，可以用来为他们自己的个人利益服务。我们将软父权主义的一种形式理论化，以此来命名这种权力差异。我们认为，软父权主义的模式赋予了男性权力，并为他们创造了操纵和破坏他们所照顾的女性生活的机会。这些丑闻往往会导致大型教会的内部崩溃，在那里，牧师和会众之间的魅力纽带被不可挽回地打破了。

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The Problem of Cooperation and Homo Duplex 合作与双工问题

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Pub Date : 2020-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0002

J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly

Humans are homo duplex—they are both individual and social—and they struggle with the coexistence and/or integration of these two sides to their human nature. Given this, what encourages cooperation among strangers? Our claim is that religion is the most effective method of facilitating human cooperation and that megachurches are particularly successful at doing so. Megachurches provide attendees with rituals and opportunities to discipline and increase self-control, selfless behavior, and cooperation. At the same time, they focus on the other side of homo duplex—the need to exert the ego—which is evident in how they lift the individual and nurture each person’s gifts and talents.

人类是双重人格——他们既是个体的又是社会的——他们在人性的这两个方面的共存和/或融合中挣扎。既然如此，是什么鼓励陌生人之间的合作呢?我们的观点是，宗教是促进人类合作最有效的方法，而大型教会在这方面尤其成功。大型教会为参加者提供仪式和机会，以纪律和提高自我控制，无私的行为和合作。与此同时，他们关注双重人格的另一面——发挥自我的需要——这在他们如何提升个人和培养每个人的天赋和才能上是显而易见的。

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Desire to Re-member 回忆的欲望

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Pub Date : 2020-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0013

J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly

In this chapter, we show how megachurches satisfy attendees’ desire to belong in a community of like-minded others. We describe the process by which attendees go from being spectators to being active members, and the key role that small groups play in this process. Small groups connect attendees to others, allow them to feel accepted, make a large church feel small, and provide them with emotional energy in between weekend services. Megachurches offer a wide variety of small group options in an effort to meet their attendees’ every need, which include small groups focusing on marriage that become a critical factor in creating what we call megachurch marriage culture.

在这一章中，我们展示了大型教会如何满足与会者的愿望，即加入一个志同道合的社区。我们描述了参与者从旁观到积极参与的过程，以及小组在这一过程中发挥的关键作用。小团体将参加者与其他人联系起来，让他们感到被接受，使一个大教堂感觉很小，并在周末服务之间为他们提供情感能量。大型教会提供各种各样的小组选择，努力满足他们的信徒的每一个需求，其中包括以婚姻为重点的小组，这成为创造我们所谓的大型教会婚姻文化的关键因素。

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The Micro-sociology of Interaction Rituals within Megachurches 大型教会内互动仪式的微观社会学

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Pub Date : 2020-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199827718.003.0007

J. Wellman, Katie E. Corcoran, Kate Stockly

We describe the paradigm of micro-sociology using Randall Collins’s work on interaction ritual chains to understand how emotional energy is produced in megachurches. We argue that individuals are motivated to participate in megachurches through a process of interaction ritual chains that produce and evoke deep desires satisfied through emotional energy, which attracts and keeps so many coming to megachurches. We describe Collins’s ingredients for successful rituals (co-presence, a shared mood, a mutual focus of attention, and barriers to outsiders) and how megachurches meet or transform these ingredients for their purposes. As we narrate Collins’s interactive ritual structure, we briefly outline the ways in which the six desires, described in Chapter 3, are met in a cyclical manner within megachurches. We show how they are evoked and addressed in overlapping and synchronic ways, which reinforces the power of the collective effervescence of these churches.

我们使用兰德尔·柯林斯关于互动仪式链的工作来描述微观社会学的范式，以理解情感能量是如何在大型教堂中产生的。我们认为，个人参与大型教会的动机是通过互动仪式链的过程，这些仪式链产生并唤起了通过情感能量满足的深层欲望，这吸引并保持了如此多的人来到大型教会。我们描述了柯林斯成功仪式的要素(共同出席，共同的情绪，共同关注的焦点，以及对局外人的障碍)，以及大型教堂如何满足或改变这些要素以达到其目的。当我们叙述柯林斯的互动仪式结构时，我们简要地概述了在第三章中描述的六种欲望在大型教堂中以周期性的方式得到满足的方式。我们展示了它们是如何以重叠和共时的方式被唤起和处理的，这加强了这些教堂集体沸腾的力量。

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