澳大利亚的地方政府祈祷

IF 0.5 0 RELIGION Journal for the Academic Study of Religion Pub Date : 2023-03-03 DOI:10.1558/jasr.21309
Luke Beck
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澳大利亚的许多地方政府以祈祷开始议会会议,这种做法已经有一段时间了。然而,这一现象在很大程度上被研究澳大利亚宗教与政府互动的文献所忽视。在概述了地方政府祈祷的起源之后,这篇文章继续表明,大约三分之一的澳大利亚地方政府有祈祷活动(在新南威尔士州和维多利亚州,超过一半的地方政府有祈祷活动),几乎所有这些祈祷活动都是基督教的,在一些州,基督徒人口最少的社区比基督徒人口最多的社区更有可能有一个祈祷仪式的委员会。这一现象与澳大利亚现存的后世俗主义说法并不相符。文章认为,澳大利亚的地方政府祈祷也对现有的关于澳大利亚宗教与政府互动性质的后世俗解释提出了挑战,并提出了在发展澳大利亚宗教与政府关系的描述时,需要发展更细致入微的描述,以区分政策领域和制度问题。
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Local Government Prayers in Australia
Many local governments in Australia open their council meetings with prayer and have done so for some time. Yet this phenomenon has been largely ignored by the literature examining religion-government interactions in Australia. After outlining the origins of local government prayers, this article goes on to show that approximately one-third of Australian local governments have a prayer practice (rising to more than half of local governments in New South Wales and Victoria), that almost all of those prayer practices are exclusively Christian, and that in some states communities with the smallest Christian populations are more likely to have a council with a prayer practice than communities with the largest Christian populations. This phenomenon does not sit neatly with existing accounts of post-secularism in Australia. The article suggests that local government prayers in Australia also pose a challenge to existing post-secular explanatory accounts of the nature of religion-government interactions in Australia and speak to the need to develop more nuanced accounts that distinguish between the policy realm and institutional issues in developing accounts of the relationship between religion and government in Australia.
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期刊介绍: The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion is a fully refereed interdisciplinary academic journal. The journal reflects the wide variety of research dealing with all aspects of the academic study of religion. The journal is committed to presenting cutting edge research from both established and new scholars. As well as articles, it publishes book and film reviews, conference reports, and the annual lectures delivered to members of its partner organisation, the Australian Association for the Study of Religion. The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion is published three times a year and issues alternate between thematic and regular issues. Regular issues include articles on any topic that bears upon the academic study of religion.
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