Orthodox Identity as Traditionalism: Construction of Political Meaning in the Current Public Discourse of the Russian Orthodox Church

This article reviews the articulation of traditional political values in the contemporary discourse of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). As an empirical basis, the article takes the ROC’s official documents reflecting its position on social and political issues, the statements of various Synodal departments and Church hierarchs, as well as the statements of those representatives of the Orthodox intelligentsia, who promote an alternative agenda for Church-state dialogue. The author analyses the discursive forms deployed for the use of two key concepts, related to two markers of traditionalist worldview (opinions about liberalism, and positions taken with regard to the rights of sexual minorities), and studies the context in which these confessional ethical norms are politicized. This allows the author to move from interpreting Orthodox identity as merely a confessional/religious affiliation, expressing itself in a range of practices (attending services, etc), to an interpretation of Orthodox identity as traditionalist in the political sense of that word, involving the formation of a distinctive political theology and the politicization of confessional ideas of morality.     

简析俄国东正教传教士团在早期中俄文化交流中的作用

中俄两国的文化交流是两国关系史上的重要组成部分,在一定程度上影响、制约着两国政治经济关系的发展和变化。在早期中俄文化交流中,俄国东正教和传教士团扮演了文化使者的角色,是中俄文化交流最重要的桥梁。尽管他们的活动带有一定的政治目的,但在客观上却为促进中俄两国的文化交流和人民之间的了解发挥了促进作用。     

On Marx's theory of agricultural rent: A reply to Ben Fine

This article criticizes both the 'Marxist' and 'sociological' conceptualizations of money to be found in the recent debate between Fine, Lapavitsas and Zelizer in Economy and Society . They neglect important contributions to the theory of money, especially the 'credit' and 'state' theories of money in the social sciences. These emphasize, as did Keynes, the central theoretical importance of money of account . These approaches were banished from orthodox economics and lost to sociology in the post- Methodenstreit division of intellectual labour in the social sciences. Marxist economics has never properly addressed this monetary analysis. Although neglected, it is not obscure and informs the more widely known post-Keynesian theory of money. This article argues that these heterodox theories of money are essentially sociological in that they involve the conceptualization of money as abstract value constituted by the social relation of the 'promise to pay'.     

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.     

索隐派与《儒家实义》的“以耶合儒”路线

马若瑟《儒教实义》是一本以儒家经典作为研究对象的书,内容涉及天学、鬼神、灵魂、伦理、丧葬、祭祀等诸多方面。本文通过对索隐派背景知识及马若瑟在中国传教事业的大体介绍、对《儒教实义》基本内容的概括,研究作者是以何方式杂糅儒耶、传达天主教天主上帝之理的,从而能够帮助读者更深入地了解那个时代入华传教士的传教策略及其对中国儒家思想的诠释路线。     

Conceptualizing lived religious citizenship: a case-study of Christian and Muslim women in Norway and the United Kingdom

The concept of ‘religious citizenship’ is increasingly being used by scholars, but there are few attempts at defining it. This article argues that rights-based definitions giving primacy to status and rights are too narrow, and that feminist approaches to citizenship foregrounding identity, belonging and participation, as well as an ethic of care, provide a more comprehensive understanding of how religious women understand and experience their own ‘religious citizenship’. Findings from interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Oslo and Leicester suggest a close relationship between religious women's faith and practice (‘lived religion’) and their ‘lived citizenship’. However, gender inequalities and status differences between majority and minority religions produce challenges to rights-based approaches to religious citizenship.     

“恢复性”的背后——恢复性司法的法理学批判

恢复性司法研究始于1970年代,目前已经在很多国家和地区展开了试点。它的起源带有基督教的宗教因素,其正义观带有自然法的色彩;并且,恢复性司法受1970年代西方被害人运动的推动,具有后现代主义法学的"解构"特征。本质上说,恢复性司法是"非法治"的,它是西方市民运动的产物,是对传统刑事司法的颠覆。对于中国这样一个市民社会还不发达,而且复仇主义和暴力文化具有悠久历史的国家而言,引入恢复性司法的可行性是值得商榷的。     

女性神学思想述评

女性神学是在两次女性主义浪潮和解放神学兴起的双重助力的推动下,于20世纪60年代蓬勃兴起于西方社会的新兴神学理论思潮。它以批判基督教神学思想中的父权制传统为理论前提,重新释读基督教经典文本,并运用女性经验重构基督教神学。它的诞生和发展为女性的解放事业作出了不可磨灭的贡献,对基督教神学理论的发展也具有推动作用,同时又促进了研究者对两性关系进行深层次思考。只有在神学理论和实践的探索中破除两性对立,承认两性差异,发挥两性各自的优势,促成两性之间的真诚对话,才能最终构建一个回归两性和谐本位的基督信仰。     

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。