右派的热情 宗教原教旨主义与民主危机

右派的热情：宗教原教旨主义与民主危机

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532708604274305?journalCode=csca#tab-contributors

亨利·A·吉鲁

https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708604274305

本文认为，在乔治·布什总统任期内，共和党日益成为宗教权利的延伸。其后果之一是反智主义猖獗，再加上类似塔利班的道德主义，现在大胆地转化为日常文化实践和政治政策，右翼福音派人士践行着他们的救世主世界观。民主政治和世俗人文主义正在被“狂喜”政治所取代，在这种政治中，确定性、道德主义和绝对主义以信仰的名义对科学发起攻击，支持神创论而非进化论，对同性恋权利和妇女权利发动无情的战争。生殖权利，并利用“生命文化”来支持以宗教为由拒绝开避孕药处方的药剂师。对宗教自由和世俗思想的攻击在整个文化中再现了一种令人衰弱的反智主义，也威胁到政教分离、宗教自由、社会正义和民主。宗教原教旨主义的兴起已成为21世纪美国面临的重大问题之一。文章呼吁捍卫宗教自由和世俗人文主义价值观的文化政治，作为捍卫包容性民主的一部分。文章最后呼吁教育工作者、家长、艺术家和其他人拒绝宗教被高度政治化和宗派化的用途，恢复那些民主价值观，其中宗教自由拒绝将宗教用作极右派的政治宗派工具 。

The Passion of the Right: Religious Fundamentalism and the Crisis of Democracy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1532708604274305?journalCode=csca#tab-contributors

Henry A. Giroux 

https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708604274305

Abstract

This article argues that under the presidency of George Bush, the Republican Party has increasingly become an extension of the religious right. One consequence is a rampant anti-intellectualism coupled with Taliban-like moralism now boldly translates into everyday cultural practices and political policies as right-wing evangelicals live out their messianic view of the world. Democratic politics and secular humanism are being replaced by a “Rapture” politics in which certainty, moralism, and absolutism drive an attack on science in the name of faith by endorsing Creationism over the teaching of evolution, wage an unrelenting war against gay rights and women’s reproductive rights, and use an appeal to the “culture of life” to support pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for contraception on religious grounds. The attack on religious freedom and secular thought reproduces a debilitating anti-intellectualism throughout the culture and also threatens the separation of church and state, religious freedom, social justice, and democracy. The rise of religious fundamentalism has become one of the great problems facing the United States in the 21st century. The article calls for a cultural politics that defends religious freedom and the values of secular humanism as part of a defense of an inclusive democracy. The article concludes by calling for educators, parents, artists, and others reject the highly political and sectarian uses to which religion is being put by reclaiming those democratic values in which religious freedom rejects the use of religion as a political sectarian tool of the extreme right.