当代美国基督教福音派与美国人权外交

Contemporary American Evangelicals and the Human Rights Diplomacy in the U.S

二战结束后,美国乃至全世界的福音派发展迅猛,信徒人数和组织数目均大幅增长。美国是世界福音派的中心,美国福音派在世界福音派中居领导地位。近30年来,福音派对美国政治的影响持续上升,成为影响美国政治的重要力量。同时,美国福音派的跨国政治参与亦主要依赖美国这一主权国家的制度空间。宗教人权是基督教福音派跨国政治参与的首要目标,在此主导下,基督教福音派对美国人权外交产生了深刻影响,成为人权外交制度化的主要推动力量。

Since the end of the Second World War,evangelicals have been increasing rapidly both in America and all around the world.Catalyzed by the zeal passion to evangelize the world and depending on their flourishing and effective work on mission,relief and development on the earth,American evangelicals have a whip hand among world evangelicals.It is not an exaggeration to say that we can not understand the US foreign policy without a careful examination of this new force in the society.Actually with the dramatic expansion of Christian mission movement and the rapid rise of international faith-based NGOs,American evangelicals began to assert a significant impact on US foreign policies by promoting their ideas on world affairs as well as by nurturing and mobilizing a wide-spread transnational network of fellow believers.