都市青年基督徒的信仰世界

通过对上海基督教两堂的调查发现：当代中国都市青年基督徒这一信仰群体,在身份上表现出“移民”、“高知”和“白领”的特点;他们对基督教教义的理解比较正统,在信仰倾向上,体现出保守性和“福音派”的特点。当代都市青年基督徒的基本精神状况比较健康,并对基督教的发展前景表现乐观,这体现了他们对宗教信仰自由政策的认可,以及对基督教能与社会主义社会相适应的积极态度。     

关爱的失落与寻求——农村留守儿童基督教信仰状况调查

近年来，对于留守儿童的研究已有不少，但关于留守儿童的基督教信仰状况及基督教信仰对留守儿童的影响的研究十分阙如。本文根据作者参与留守儿童服务期间的调查和观察，对留守儿童基督教信仰的动因及基督教信仰给他们的影响做了初步的描述和探讨，希望引起更多的人关心和研究影响留守儿童成长的信仰因素。     

摩西的选择与美国人的信仰

当今世界,宗教的影响力在其发源地欧洲已经逐渐没落,而在美国却历久弥新,影响力日益扩大。其中,基督教是美国的主流教派,要了解美国文化和美国人,首先得了解基督教文化。它是一种对上帝无限崇拜的文化,有其完整的道德标准和价值观念体系。正因为大部分美国人信仰基督教,信奉上帝,作为文化传播的一种重要形式,美国的电影也就承担了宣扬基督教和上帝的任务。本文通过对电影《埃及王子》中摩西的种种选择探究美国人的信仰和上帝观。     

青年大学生马克思主义信仰问题研究

信仰是人类社会中最基本最深刻的精神现象,其表现为人们对某种思想、主义的信奉和遵循。马克思主义信仰是学习马克思主义理论内化于心的更高层次。青年大学生是国家的未来,民族的希望,其马克思主义信仰是否坚定直接影响着中国梦能否顺利实现。因此,青年大学生对马克思主义信仰存在的问题应引起社会及教育工作者的高度重视,如何加强大学生的信仰教育,引导大学生坚定理想信念,促进其全面发展,是摆在我们面前最为迫切的问题。     

试论信仰教育在青年学生德育工作中的作用

思想政治教育的主要目的在于提高人们的思想道德素质,促进人的全面发展,信仰教育则是思想政治教育理论的核心内容。对于青年学生来讲,信仰教育是以引导受教育者树立正确、合理的价值观并要求始终坚守积极、合理价值观为出发点和落脚点的。本文主要对青年学生信仰认识的现状、影响、产生原因以及解决途径等方面进行阐述。     

新时代高校青年学生马克思主义信仰培育探析

青年兴则国家兴,青年强则国家强,新时代马克思主义信仰的培育不仅影响学生的发展,更影响我国社会主义现代化建设的方向和未来.新时代高校重视青年学生马克思主义信仰的培育,有利于增强学生对社会主义事业的认同感,培养合格的社会主义建设者和接班人.     

关于坚定高校青年马克思主义者信仰的思考

青年马克思主义者的培养旨在为我国社会主义建设培养优秀的接班人,这一群体是否拥有坚定的马克思主义信仰,其重要性不言而喻。随着社会的进步与发展,传统的马克思主义信仰教育不仅面临教育环境的新变化,同时也面临教学方式更迭带来的新挑战。各培养单位除了要紧密把握青马工程的主旨,创新高校青年马克思主义信仰教育方式之外,青年马克思主义者与社会各界亦应承担各自的社会责任,为培养出具有坚定马克思主义信仰的社会主义接班人而努力。     

农民工基督徒随迁子女的家庭教育

当前,对农民工基督徒随迁子女的家庭教育研究鲜见.基督教信仰教育作为"属灵的生命",对农民工基督徒随迁子女的教育认知和价值取向产生深刻影响.农民工基督徒注重基督教教育的双重影响:一方面,它强调信仰意义,注重培育"爱"与"感恩",这有利于下一代的城市融入;另一方面,将"信"与"不信"划分为"正路"和"邪路",这种简单的二分法夸大基督教育价值,必然对后代的社会认知产生负面效应,容易使其对外在的现实社会产生认知失调,甚至造成身份认同的混乱,无助于下一代的城市融入.     

马克思主义信仰概述

信仰是人类最基本、最深刻的精神活动和精神现象,它决定、支配人的世界观、价值观、人生观,从而在根本上影响人的精神生活和社会活动,并由此作用于社会的发展和历史的进程。历史实践证明,马克思主义信仰是迄今人类历史上最为科学和崇高的信仰。它建立在科学世界观基础上、以遵循科学揭示的客观规律为使命,是人们追求真理、追求进步的巨大动力,是凝聚人心、团结奋斗的精神支柱,是战胜困难、夺取胜利的力量源泉。     

The Black Family in the 21st Century and the Church as an Action System: A Macro Perspective

Abstract

The Black church has played a leadership function for African Americans during times of crisis such as slavery and the civil rights movement. This article suggests that the current crisis in the African American community is the disintegration of the African American family because of economic, social and value shifts, as well as misguided social policy. The Black church must again mount a spiritual and political campaign to save African American families, thereby ensuring their prosperity.     

Effects of Parental Divorce on God Image Among Young Adults at a Christian University

We used path analysis to investigate the impact of parental divorce on God image, mediated by father–child and mother–child attachments, among 178 college students at a Christian university. Findings revealed that parental divorce negatively impacts father–child attachment; however, father–child attachment does not impact God image. Instead, the quality of mother–child attachment, which does not seem to be influenced by parental divorce, best predicts the development of a healthy God image. Thus, preliminary findings elucidated that parental divorce undermines the quality of attachment between father and child but not mother and child, and mother–child attachment ultimately influences God image. Further research is needed to replicate and generalize these preliminary findings.     

Gender Equality as Institutional Work: The Case of the Church of Sweden

Institutional theory predicts that organizations respond to external changes in their environment to be able to safeguard their long‐term viability. One of the most significant institutional changes in the last century has been the entry of women into both labour markets and professions; however, an extensive literature reports that gender inequality and various forms of sexism still structure and influence the everyday work of organizations. Drawing on the recent literature on institutional work, the article reports on a study of how the Church of Sweden has managed to relatively successfully institutionalize female ministers as legitimate and widely respected members of the professional category of ministers ordained by the Church. Female ministers believe they are, by and large, respected in the Church, but suggest that gender remains an issue as women are at times expected to embody certain interests and have to answer some questions that their male colleagues may have been spared. The findings describe institutional work as an ongoing process with no fixed end‐point, stressing agency as the distributed and collective capacity to question established beliefs and norms.     

The Role of Companion Animals Throughout the Family Life Cycle

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the roles that companion animals play in the lives of American families, and discusses how those roles change as families progress through the stages of the family life cycle. It highlights the importance of pets in the lives of children and the benefits they receive from such relationships. It also presents information regarding the role of a child that animals often assume within families that do not have children. This paper also discusses the impact that the death of a pet has on the family, and provides suggestions for social workers who assist families that have strong attachment to companion animals.     

The Scrutinized Priest: Women in the Church of England Negotiating Professional and Sacred Clothing Regimes

This article examines the integration of women priests in the Church of England through the lens of dress. Clothing is a salient dynamic in occupational cultures, particularly in relation to the regulation of gendered bodies. Women's ordination to the priesthood was only sanctioned in 1992. Complex clothing regimes are negotiated, for ordination bestows upon the priest certain clothing rights and responsibilities. However, such attire has traditionally been associated only with the male body, creating tension in relation to women's appropriation of this sacred and professional dress. Based on in‐depth interviews with 17 Anglican clergy women, this article will focus both on the scrutiny the women experienced in relation to their clothing choices, as well as the relationship the women themselves negotiated with their clothes. It will be argued that as representatives of both a sacred and professional domain, clothing had to be carefully managed by clergy. Dress functioned as a key test in women's integration into the organization, often operating as a constraining and exclusionary mechanism.     

The Politics of Migration,Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland

This article investigates the ways in which a shift from post‐colonial nation building to neoliberal state restructuring has shaped church and Irish state relations regarding migrant welfare. It develops the extensive work of Bäckström and Davie (2010) and Bäckström et al. (2011) on how majority churches in European countries are reclaiming a social welfare role as the state relinquishes this responsibility: first, by examining the domain of migrant welfare which is not developed in their work; and second, by arguing that majority church pro‐migrant service provision, as it has evolved in recent decades, can be understood in relation to an emergent neoliberal mode of collective responsibility for migrant welfare. It suggests that in spite of other factors and forces that undermine Irish Catholic Church authority, the marketization of more domains of life in the first decades of the twenty‐first century has given new significance to Catholic Social Teaching and pro‐migrant church initiatives.     

The Impact of Mothers' Incarceration on the Family System:

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Using Family Attachment Narrative Therapy to Heal the Wounds of Twinship: A Case Study of an 11-Year-Old Boy

This paper describes the utilization of Family Attachment Narrative Therapy with an 11-year-old boy experiencing significant behavioral and developmental problems emerging from his experience of identical twinship and associated parental failure. This innovative treatment model is demonstrated to be a useful tool for changing the child’s faulty self narrative resulting in improved functioning. The critical element of the reworked schema is the perception of self as complete, adequate, worthy and cherished. Family Attachment Narrative Therapy is also shown to facilitate increased parental attunement to the child’s inner state and parent-child bonding. This study highlights the unique developmental challenges facing young twins and the related complexity of the parental role.     

Juvenile Delinquency in Search of a Practice Model: Family Health,Differential Association,and Social Control

ABSTRACT

Historically, practice research on juvenile delinquency has often been guided by the theories of differential association and social control. However, current research indicates that no matter what theory of delinquency is pursued, it has had little effect on decreasing juvenile arrest and violent crime rates. This article will explore the dynamics of the theories of differential association and social control in relation to juvenile delinquency. These linear, normative, and deficit-based theories are then contrasted with family health practice, an alternative theory and intervention model which focuses on the multiple forms and needs of families and their strengths. Specific family health practice principles and interventions are suggested for practice with families in which juvenile delinquency occurs. Finally, a case example utilizing family health interventions is presented.     

社会转型与家庭育儿功能的转移——日本2010年《育儿理念》的经验与启示

伴随着社会转型期家庭结构和模式的改变,现代家庭的功能和需求发生了根本性变化,传统以家庭为主的育儿模式在现代社会表现出极大的局限性和缺陷性,社会有必要积极和主动地参与并为家庭提供育儿的支持和援助。日本2010年《育儿理念》中从“家庭育儿”、“家长育儿”向“社会育儿”的理念转变及其具体实施经验为转型期中国社会的育儿提供了有益的借鉴：要改变传统观念,在政府的引导和统筹协调下,建立专业的家庭社会工作体系、开拓广泛的社会资源、构建积极有效的家社一体化育儿支援体制。