论清教主义对美国主流文化价值观的影响

清教主义起源于英国,在北美殖民地得以实践与发展.其因信称义、天职思想、山颠之城等核心理念,虽然构成宗教行为规范要素,却在很大程度上起到了消解禁锢人们思想与行为的主流教会传统的作用,促进了社会世俗化进程,在早期的美国,推动了个性解放,促成建立现代劳动、职业和财富观,以宗教的理想勾勒出国家未来追求的目标.它们奠定了今日美国主流文化(WASP)价值观念的基础,铸就了美国民族特性.

Puritan Influences on American Mainstream Cultural Values

Puritanism originated from England and manifested itself in many ways in British North American colonies.Although they formed essential elements of religious norms for behavior,justification by grace through faith,the idea of calling,a city upon a hill,the core convictions of Puritanism,dispelled to a large extent the bondage of the tradition of mainstream church on the mind and deed of people.They quickened the process of social secularization,promoted individual emancipation and played an important role i...