构建和谐社会与重新审视宗教

在举国上下构建和谐社会的环境下,宗教值得重新审视。本文以作者亲历事件为例,论证了3个观点:第一,宗教的根本是长期性,应该用自由公民的世俗追求说明他们的宗教追求;第二,宗教的关键是群众性,应当努力引导宗教为祖国统一、民族团结、经济发展、社会稳定服务;第三,宗教有特殊的复杂性,新中国的宗教应当是积极、和谐的因素,为世界的和平发展、人类幸福吹来一股和风、带来一团和气。     

基督教发展问题的典型调查与思考

本文在对河北省藁城市基督教进行典型调查的基础上,就其基本情况、主要特点和发展原因进行了分析,并提出了怎样做好宗教工作的几点意见。     

'I'm Proud of the British Empire': Why Tony Blair Backs George W. Bush

This article considers the three main reasons behind Tony Blair's support for the post-9/11 foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration, especially the war on Iraq: first, Blair is on a neo-imperial mission, with deep roots in his personal development, to re-order the world to better suit British interests; secondly, Bush and Blair independently agree that the post-1989 period represents wasted time, years of drift that could have been used to press home Anglo-American dominance; and thirdly, an agreement that 9/11 opened the space for a radical restructuring of international relations and the setting of a more interventionist global agenda.     

“耶道对话”的新尝试--以傅圣泽《据古经传考天象不均齐》一文为参照

梵蒂冈图书馆藏有傅圣泽中文著作《据古经传考天象不均齐》一文，至今学界仍未对其进行解读。他合《易经》与道家经典，将“道”作为连接中西方文化的核心概念，不仅首创了以《易经》为载体的“耶道对话”模式，而且也为天主教在华传教事业开拓了新的理论方式。     

论儒家伦理的宗教功能及其文化作用——兼与基督教文化比较

如果说,西方伦理是从属于基督教、是基督教派生的,上帝之死会导致伦理价值的崩溃;那么,儒家伦理则是由现实的血缘关系出发的一种准宗教文化建构.虽然“儒教”并非宗教而是一种伦理教化,然而,这种伦理教化却具有宗教的功能.它既能够慰藉个体的孤独情怀,又能以伦理架构的整体性超越死亡.儒家的伦理本位与基督教的上帝本位导致中西文化很多方面的不同,无论是将个体生命融入家国族类的整体、追求现世的自我还善,还是五四反传统的传统动因,都打上了儒家伦理的深刻印记.     

Death and the erotic woman: the European gendering of mortality in times of major religious change

This paper explores the use of European erotic death imagery produced in the Death and the Maiden (D&M) genre in two time periods. It compares and contrasts D&M imagery produced by the Germanic-speaking proto/early-Reformation artists, Hans Baldung (alias Grien) (c1484–1545), Niklaus Manuel (known as Deutsch) (c1484–1530) and Sebald Beham (known as Hans Sebald Beham) (1500–1550) which highlighted the folly, futility and transience of earthly vanities during the transition from Roman Catholic to Protestant Christianity, with contemporary calendar art produced by Cofani Funebri (from 2003) and Lindner (from 2010) which advertise coffins manufactured in the increasingly secular countries of Italy and Poland. Drawing on Biblical narrative, Augustinian theology and European socio-cultural perceptions of gender, this paper argues that these D&M images are highly eroticised and place woman as signifiers of transcient life (vanitas) and earthly pleasure (voluptas), juxtaposing her with a masculine/male representation of death; Death being imaged as an individual in the sixteenth century, and as a coffin in the contemporary works. The paper also contextualises the imagery in terms of traditional European Christian notions of life and death, as informed by the Biblical Fall narrative, with its elucidations of sin, concupiscence and punishment. It thus asserts that both socio-cultural and religious attitudes towards gender are highly significant in D&M imagery and indeed in terms of the artworks, argues that the masculine signifier of Death can be placed as Adam, whilst the Maiden, as fecund life, represents Eve. However, the overt eroticism of both sets of artworks also allows for a reading that draws on Messaris' [(1997). Visual persuasion; the role of images in advertising. London: Sage] notion that visual images ‘make a persuasive communication due to iconicity; the emotional response to the visual image presented’. Thus, this paper contrasts D&M imagery produced over 400 years apart to examine consciously erotic gendered thanantological allegories of women as vanitas and voluptas, and the male/masculine as representations of Death.     

试析拉美左翼政治与拉美宗教社会主义思潮

拉丁美洲从来都是一个思潮多元的地区,哥伦布发现美洲大地后又带来了基督教的思想,基督教从此生根发芽壮大,从维护统治阶级的工具到帮助穷人谋利益的利器。从拉美的解放神学再到现今拉美左翼领导人的宗教思想,这期间的进化过程意味着革命向广度和深度发展。马克思在19世纪认为宗教是反动势力、愚昧主义和保守主义的堡垒。这一论断在很大程度上是一个完全正确的命题,然而拉美的左翼思潮在新时代背景下又略有不同。对于我国目前宗教发展现状与趋势而言,如何科学而合理管理宗教,做到与时俱进是我国社会主义建设过程中必须面对的一个重要命题。     

为法律赢得神圣——中西法律观念的信仰基础反思

法律的存在离不开信仰的支持。西方法律的信仰基础成功地完成了从基督教到理性主义的转型 ,当代中国法律的信仰基础应该是建立在理性主义之上的公平与正义等信念 ,经过扬弃的儒家信仰可以作为合理的思想资源 ,被纳入当代中国的法治文化。     

Religious Innovation and Competition in Contemporary African Christianity

ABSTRACT

This introductory essay lays out the main themes of a special issue of Journal of Contemporary African Studies which brings together six empirically grounded papers by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. These works touch on various aspects of the social impact of religious innovation and competition in present day African Christianity. They represent the first fruits on the social science side of an interdisciplinary initiative that made 23 research grants for theologians and social scientists to study Christianity and social change in contemporary Africa. These articles focus on a variety of dynamics in contemporary African religion (mostly Christianity), including gender, health and healing, social media, entrepreneurship, and inter-religious borrowing and accommodation. The editors conclude that the research and learning reflected in this volume will enhance understanding of religion’s vital entanglement in contemporary African society. The articles reveal problematic ethical and psychological dynamics in some of these new movements, particularly among some of the neo-Pentecostal groups. Yet the authors are determined to go beyond perspectives that are overly fixated with African problems and victimisation. They are keen to explore opportunities for understanding African agency and African wellsprings of hope. The editors conclude that scholars of religion and religiosity in Africa need to invest new conceptual and methodological energy in researching what it means to be actively religious in Africa today.     

1999年以来印尼马鲁古地区民族分离运动探析

作为一个多元民族与多元宗教的岛屿国家，印度尼西亚民族分离运动问题十分突出。本文阐述1999年以来印尼马鲁古地区民族分离运动产生和发展的过程，并试图探究其产生的原因。随着印尼地区自治的逐步实施以及全国地方直接选举的逐步实行，在民主化改革的背景之下，印度尼西亚的民族分离运动问题将面临一个新的前景。