期刊名称：Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
印刷版ISSN：1583-0039
出版年度：2012
卷号：11
期号：32
页码：132-154
语种：English
出版社：SACRI
摘要：In this article I am applying the anthropological term of "cosmology" to the study of Christianity in order to place plural Christian settings under a wider methodological perspective. I am drawing on the findings of my fieldwork in Southwestern Ghana, where I met twelve different Christian denominations and five traditional healers operating in one village. I am sketching a concise image of the local Nzema cosmology and then I am launching an attempt to present its Christian equivalent. Informed by the situation in the field, by general history of Christianity, as well as by my personal understanding of it, my cosmological investigation yields three different Christian cosmologies, which all coincide side by side in African contexts. I see, thus, pluralism as inherent to Christianity itself, rather than as an outcome of cultural encounter between Christianity and local pre-Christian religion.
关键词：Anthropology; Study of Religion; Cosmology; African Traditional Religion; Christianity; Christian cosmologies.
