“Still Looking for My Jonathan”: Gay Black Men's Management of Religious and Sexual Identity Conflicts

This article looks at homosexual Black men who are heavily involved in fundamentalist African-American churches. These men describe themselves as “out as same-sex loving individuals” even though the messages preached by their church leaders and the doctrines of their churches are, at the very least, heterosexist, but more likely to be stridently anti-homosexuality. Not only do these men attend the churches they are parts of, but they are viewed as leaders in these churches in positions ranging from associate pastor to director of facilities management. The study uses structured interviews to understand how these men manage the conflict between a committed gay identity and a strong religious identity that says the two cannot coexist.     

荣格精神分析心理学中的道家思想

对心灵的关注与救赎,使荣格超越了西方文化的偏见,与道家思想相遇。道家思想关注人的存在问题,最终目的是让人成为真正的自己。这为荣格提供了灵感的来源,成为他学术人生的转折点,并帮助荣格实现了精神分析心理学别开生面的建构。由此,荣格理论中的一系列范畴、概念都被打上东方文化的烙印。荣格对于东方文化与西方世界的关系有着辩证的思考,他欣赏东方文化心灵修行的方法和智慧,认为西方人要重新找回被遗忘和丢失的精神家园,就必须向东方文化敞开胸怀。     

移情：文化交流的一种审美路径——从罗蒂新实用主义的视角分析

当今世界的文化多元的现实使我们一方面要避免囿于一己文化的框架而突出独立冲突,另一方面又要在防止文化霸权和殖民的情况下尽可能地实现文化间的平等沟通交流。面对复杂的形势,新实用主义代表人物罗蒂关于移情的论述给我们提示了一种新的文化交流机制。移情发生作用的心理机制以及它与道德的紧密关联不仅能帮助人们处理个体之间的关系,而且能够帮助人们从个体走向群体的团结。罗蒂认为文学作品及审美移情对此贡献良多。个体之上的审美移情及其作用同样适用于文化自身的发展及之间的交流,尽管具有一定的乌托邦色彩,但不失为一种极有理论和实践价值的选择。     

客观性还是一致性--谈罗蒂的真理观

罗蒂把客观性说成一致性,企图根本否认真理的客观性.针对这种观点,本文从客观性与语言、客观性与历史性、客观性与发展三个方面对罗蒂进行了反驳.本文指出,首先,世界存在是一个基本事实,并不属于语言哲学的范畴.其次,人诚然具有社会历史性,但人对世界的正确认识却不局限于自己的时代.第三,强调客观性不仅不会妨碍真理的发展,相反恰恰是真理发展的保证.     

教会防范教案:甲午战后新教传教士集体上疏清廷考

以往的晚清中外关系研究往往强调了甲午战后民教冲突的一面,而从未提到过传教士迫切希望减少这种冲突并为此作的努力。虽然清廷两派在基督教问题上的分歧导致1895年新教传教士集体上疏清廷的成效甚微,但清廷高层的改良派官员与李提摩太等传教士的交往和了解成为基层民教冲突影响高层政治决策的中间环节,预示了日后清廷修正基督教政策的可能性。     

李提摩太对大乘佛教的回应:从后殖民对东方学的批判着眼

虽然李提摩太对大乘佛教的诠释受到他自己的基督教信仰影响,甚至是受到传教使命驱使,但他的进路迥然不同于具殖民色彩的东方学,并且在动机和态度上颇为符合大乘佛教的精神。他在翻译佛典的过程中,没有强调东西方宗教观念之间的差异,反而突出它们的相通之处,希望以此作为基督教与佛教建立合作或友谊的共同基础,而不是使佛教徒皈依基督教。基于他的著述,可以发现他实际上实践了一种后殖民的批评,与殖民势力是对抗的。他的终极目的是全人类的解放,但进路与心态截然不同于那种解救东方人的殖民主义式思维,因为他从来不曾假设西方文明更为高等。就萨义德对东方学或东方主义的批判来说,李提摩太对大乘佛教的响应可以说是一个例外,甚至是反例。     

“有感觉的男性身体”——论霍加特的文化批评

“身体”是英国文化研究的扛鼎之作《识字的用途》中的重要隐喻。理查德·霍加特通过这一隐喻描述了二战后英国社会的文化生活,尤其是大众文化对工人阶级传统文化的腐蚀以及通过奖学金男孩“有感觉的男性身体”所实现的文化反抗。“有感觉的男性身体”,复合了更为古老的“身体”:它扬弃了利维斯文学批评中的“感觉”话语,整合了奥威尔登左派批评传统对“身体”的再现。作为三种身体形态之一,“有感觉的男性身体”囊括并超越了大众文化被性化、支离破碎的女性身体和永恒的母性身体,体现了变化—拒绝变化的二律背反;它既是社会瘀伤的症候,又通过特有的感觉能力为治愈社会提供了药方。     

Systems engineering: A problem-solving approach to improving program performance

Evaluation methodologies have generally emphasized the measurement and assessment of program merit, as reflected by the achievement of program objectives. Less attention has been devoted to analyzing and explaining the reasons for deficient performance and, more importantly, what needs to be modified to improve performance. While evaluators do identify performance problems, the identified problems are not always analyzed. Consequently, the information reported to decision makers may be incomplete, inconclusive, and of limited utility in the decision-making process. This article describes an evaluation methodology based on problem solving techniques which can be effective and efficient in defining and analyzing problems which impair program performance. The model can be applied in evaluations where the purpose is to provide decision makers with information and recommendations to improve program performance and provide an alternative to those evaluation models which emphasize the assessment of program merit. The model also provides a potentially unique cost/benefit methodology for estimating the potential worth of improving program performance (i.e., solving the problem).