Religious Critique Discourses as Community Quarrels

Friction of Values as Expressed byTanzanian Adventists

Bibliographic Data

ID20487561
AuthorsStefan Höschele (0000-0003-2421-1462, Friedensau Adventist University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume14
Issue3-4
Pages244-264
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion and Theology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1023-0807 • E-ISSN: 1574-3012
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/102308012x13397496507504
OpenAlexW2066039620
LanguageEN
References cited7

Th is article takes as a point of departure the ‘religious economy’ model and suggests that it may not be able to explain some dynamics in the construction of composite identities in religious movements. By analysing the critique discourses between Tanzanian Adventists, other religious communities, and society, an anatomy of the values underlying these critique discourses is established. Criticisms originating from Tanzanian Adventists as well as those directed at them may be understood as serving several divergent ends and producing contradictory results, including preserving central Christian values, safeguarding aspects of African identities, cementing separation from or in society, and attempting to change the environment. Th us, a community model of religion is suggested as a supplement to the ‘religious economy’ model to explain the necessity of critique and many of its dynamics

Environmental ethics · Ethnology · History of religions · Religious community · Safeguarding · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies

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