Marriage in the New Millennium: A Decade in Review

This review focuses on broad themes characterizing marital research in the past decade. In addition to continuing themes, such as a focus on conflict, violence, and impact on physical and mental health outcomes, we also address the impact of the Healthy Marriage Initiative on marital research and recent advances in methodology. We highlight an overarching theme that characterizes much of the literature: the importance of context in understanding marital outcomes and the impact of positive marital transactions and marital strengths. Given the increasing diversity of married couples, the attention given to context over the past decade has been timely and appropriate, providing an increasingly solid foundation for future research.     

On Being Jewish at a Jesuit University: Reflections on Organizational Cultures

This article provides reflections on the intersection of religion, identity, occupation, and organizational culture as it occurred in my professional life.     

Women in Congregations and Social Service Provisions

Abstract

The role of women in American congregations is a topic that has gained attention in the past twenty years. The majority of work has focused on leadership and clergy roles and the willingness, or reluctance of, denominations to ordain women. In this article, we report on women as members, lay-leaders, and clergy in Philadelphia congregations, and we assess the factors that explain the rate of women in any of these roles. We find that regardless of the advancement in many areas of society, women are still the majority members yet are a minority among the clergy. Finally, we study how the gender composition of members, lay-leaders, and clergy explain the congregation's involvement in social service provisions. In this respect, gender composition of members, lay-leaders, and clergy made little impact on the congregational social service involvement. A variety of explanations are provided to account for women's little impact in this domain.     

超越传统"儒教"问题的模式探析

超越传统儒教问题的模式大致可分为三类:用对中国传统宗教的直接探讨替代儒教问题的替换模式;弃用儒教说法,专注中国人的信仰和传统的终结模式;通过发掘儒学的宗教性资源来重新塑造儒教观念的重塑模式。尽管这些思路各有优势和局限,但都不同程度地隐含着对于儒家思想与中国文化现实发展及其出路的关怀。     

甘洛县新市坝镇尔苏藏族的琅玕比研究

"琅歼比"又称"还山鸡节",是川西南尔苏藏族时本族一个重要传统节日名称的汉语音译.该节日定期举行于每年的农历九月初一,主题是敬奉山神以及历代先祖.本文以甘洛县新民村尔苏藏族的"琅矸比"为例.通过民族学田野实地考察与访谈并结合相关文献记载,指出该习俗系尔苏藏族远古时期万物有灵的多神崇拜的文化遗存,认为"琅玕比"反映了人与自然和谐相处理念.     

论韦伯的失范思想及其理论意义

韦伯在对宗教社会学的研究中，探讨了非西方宗教当中所隐含的失范思想。韦伯在对东方印度教的阐述中，将失范视为终极道德标准的总体缺失，并强调了失范在跨文化背景研究中的重要意义。在此基础上。对失范进行了类型学分析，建构了一种失范的理想类型。韦伯在宗教社会学中既强调了某些非西方宗教教义里失范的可能性，同时也通过东西方宗教的比较，阐明了西方失范概念的特性，即西方社会规范和文化价值的总体缺失的困难性。韦伯的失范思想是对当代失范理论范畴的拓展，打开了我们理解失范的广阔视野。     

South Africa's 'Rainbow People', National Pride and Happiness

Since the first free elections were held in April 1994, South Africans are popularly known as the 'rainbow people'. The paper inquires whether South Africans who experienced pride in their nation in the first years of democracy also perceived a greater sense of subjective well-being. It is proposed that national pride in post-apartheid South Africa might be fused with or work through self-esteem to lift levels of happiness. The paper traces the history of the new integrating civil religion of the rainbow people and the acceptance of the rainbow as a political symbol of unity among the diverse people of South Africa immediately after the 1994 elections and two years later. The proposed link between national pride and happiness was explored with data from two independent national surveys, the 1995 South African World Values Survey conducted by Markinor and a June 1996 MarkData syndicated omnibus survey. The study found that the appeal of the rainbow as political symbol was inclusive of all groups in society and that feelings of national pride and support for the rainbow ideal were positively associated with subjective well-being. As indicated by intensity and frequency measures, the majority of South Africans were proud of their country and could name a national achievement that inspired pride. Better-off South Africans tended to be happier and more satisfied with life but less proud, while the poor were less happy but fiercely proud of their country. Results suggest that belief in South Africa's 'rainbow nation' ideal may have assisted in boosting happiness during the transition to a stable democracy, thereby preventing alienation among the losers under the new political dispensation. Supporters of the ideal of the rainbow nation were more optimistic than others about the future of their country.     

反思欧洲科学的三个维度及其现代意义

反思欧洲科学有三个不同维度的含义 :第一维度是纯粹知识的维度 ;第二是亚文化共同体的维度 ;第三是文化理性的维度。这三个维度不仅含义不同 ,而且对文化的实际意义差别也很大。在科学发展的过程中 ,科学的角色首先是作为纯粹的知识而出现的 ;当着科学发展成为一种专家的事业时 ,科学的实际存在就演变为科学家的亚文化共同体 ;当着科学成为全民族的教育和国民参与的目标时 ,科学就成为了整个民族的文化理性。我们强调第三维度的科学概念 ,这一概念经常为学术研究所忽略 ,然而正是科学作为文化理性的一种形态改变了欧洲的历史 ,使欧洲文明从一种基督教的文明 ,理性化为一种科学主义的文明。由于科学的排他性 ,科学理性即重塑了欧洲的文明的传统 ,也摧毁了世界的其它文明传统     

误入的迷宫--析厄普代克小说

约翰@厄普代克在<S.>一书中以象征主义手法揭示了美国历史中的怪圈现象,将其描绘成人们误入的各种迷宫,从历史、宗教、社会各个层面对人生的"逃亡”主题加以探讨.他所采用的书信体写作手法更适合表现人物的心理活动,而由其独特的结构所形成的迷宫似的神秘氛围也增强了小说的感染力.     

壮族原生型民间宗教结构及其特点

壮族的宗教包括原始宗教、原生型民间宗教和外来创生型宗教三个层次,其中原生型民间宗教--麽教和师公教具有代表性.它们的内部结构比较完整,基本具备了宗教的构成元素.与世界各种创生型宗教相比,仅在无地区性和全民性宗教领袖、无绝对权威主神的不同.壮族宗教的特点主要有8个方面,其中多种宗教神灵和谐共处,为国内外少见.