楚纹饰的审美透视

本文从美学、艺术学、文化人类学的角度对楚纹饰的表现对象、发生机制、深层内蕴进行了探讨。就表现内容而言 ,楚纹饰有自然形纹样和几何形纹样 ,其中又以龙纹、凤纹、鹿纹、圆涡纹、神灵鬼怪图案最富特色 ;从发生机制上而言 ,它乃是楚民族传统审美心理积淀的结果 ,与巫官文化有着极大的相关性 ,同时 ,它又是楚人对自身艺术经验的总结 ,对前人艺术经验的继承和创变的结果 ;从深层内蕴而言 ,楚纹饰“艺术———巫术一体化”现象是楚人生命意识的符码化形态 ,它复现了楚人的宇宙意识、生命意识、审美追求和浪漫情调     

邪教国际化社会根源的思考

邪教国际化是社会矛盾的一种特殊反映。科学技术发达的国家也可能邪教泛滥。同邪教做斗争将是长期的任务。     

古老而常新的模式化叙述--论"发迹变泰"故事的叙事艺术

"模式化"是发迹变泰故事在叙事上表现出的一个重要特征.具体可以归纳为两种:一是"贫贱-困顿-机遇-富贵"四部曲的情节总体结构,二是故事中反复出现的"预兆"、"磨难"等功能性情节.这些模式的形成有着深远的文化和心理背景,它们既是原始时期的文化遗留物,也是经人类审美和接受心理反复检验淘汰之后的文学形式.在这些"陈腐"的模式中,蕴涵着也许永远不会过时的文学财富,值得我们去探索和发掘.     

宣誓的历史及其现代遗存--宣誓形式化了吗?

宣誓在古代西方的诉讼中普遍存在.现代西方国家的诉讼程序虽然淡化了其宗教色彩,却保留了对伪誓者的惩罚,强化了对宣誓者证词的甄别.所以,现代西方的宣誓制度并非仅是古代宣誓制度的形式上的遗存,而是有了重大改进和发展,更具有合理性和实用性.从现实需要出发,我国应积极借鉴该项制度,剥离它的神学外衣,引入它的实质内容,以弥补我国诉讼程序和执行程序中证明手段的不足.     

农民工培训：走城乡教育统筹发展之路

开展农民工培训是现代化发展的必然要求,然而,培训工作是应在农村富余劳动力转移之前展开,还是在转移之后展开,是把重点放在农村,还是放在城市?实际上,要使农民工培训取得现实成效,还应本着城乡一体的原则,充分利用城乡两种教育资源,走城乡教育统筹发展之路。     

Discursive opportunities and the transnational diffusion of ideas: ‘brainwashing’ and ‘mind control’ in Japan after the Aum Affair

A case study in the sociology of ideas, this article refines the theory of ‘discursive opportunities’ to examine how intellectual claims cross national and linguistic boundaries to achieve public prominence despite lacking academic credibility. Theories of ‘brainwashing’ and ‘mind control’ originally began in the United States in the 1960s as a response to the growth of new religious movements. Decades later in Japan, claims that so‐called ‘cults’ ‘brainwashed’ or ‘mind controlled’ their followers became prominent after March 1995, when new religion Aum Shinrikyō gassed the Tokyo subway using sarin, killing thirteen. Since then, brainwashing/mind control have both remained central in public discourse surrounding the ‘Aum Affair’ despite their disputed status within academic discourse. This article advances two arguments. Firstly, the transnational diffusion of brainwashing/mind control from the US to Japan occurred as a direct result of the 1995 Tokyo sarin attack, which acted as a ‘discursive opportunity’ for activists to successfully disseminate the theories in public debate. Secondly, brainwashing/mind control became successful in Japanese public discourse primarily for their normative content, as the theories identified ‘brainwashing/mind controlling cults’ as evil, violent and profane threats to civil society.     

云南少数民族服饰资源的开发

云南有丰富的少数民族服饰资源 ,对这一资源的开发呈现出多种模式 :非本土的企业开发模式、本土化的民族企业和个体经营模式、原貌服饰的“文物”性开发 ,各有利弊。由于少数民族传统服饰包含有丰富的文化内涵及精湛的工艺 ,有关方面应对这一资源的开发引起重视。     

Towards a New Paradigm of Religious Organizations

Abstract  In contemporary Japan, religion is an important issue. Various types of religions such as new religions, occultism, the new age movement, traditional religions etc., attract supporters and exerts a favorable influence on certain aspects of their lives. But, such circumstances are not restricted to Japan. All over the world today, religions have the power to sway national policy and are indispensable in influencing human consciousness and behavior.
Religion is alive and influential even in the secularized world. As such, a cross-cultural study of religions is increasingly needed. Furthermore, the typology of religious organizations provides a means with which to make a comparative study of religion throughout the world.
However, we cannot help but conclude that the theoretical framework developed so far cannot sufficiently deal with the subject in question. This is primarily due to its strong bias towards Christianity, which renders it invalid for analyzing religions in non-Christian regions. This paper will focus on the "cult". The term cult, unlike church-sect-denomination, seems to be applicable to any religious tradition and culture. It is not confined to a specific one such as the Christian tradition and culture.
It should be noted that the cult as previously treated is problematic, too, because it is not free from a bias towards Christianity, and has too negative a connotation for a scientific concept. In this paper, utilizing the merits of the concept of cult, I would like to elaborate a new paradigm of religious organizations. This should allow for a cross-cultural comparison between religious phenomena.     

关于潮汕史前文化的年代问题

本文采用比较方法,从十个方面论证潮汕史前文化的源头──南澳象山遗址的年代,距今约1．2万年左右;潮州石尾山遗址的年代在距今9000）至一万年之间。这表明,潮汕地区,既存在旧石器时代,也存在新石器时代早期文化。     

Nationalising civilisational resources: sacred mountains and cosmopolitical ritual in Mongolia

This paper is concerned with the historical process by which elements drawn from a religious ‘civilisation’ have been reinvented as specifically national phenomena. It examines the Mongolian state ceremonies for sacred mountains conducted by the President as an example of the reinvention of an institution originally produced by the wider culture or civilisation of the Buddhist ecumene encompassing both Mongolia and Tibet. Such ritual, I argue, can be thought of as ‘cosmopolitical’ in that sense that they engaged with non-humans as actors in the political arena. Furthermore, the contemporary reinvention of these practices has generated a space for a very different, but also cosmopolitical, register for conceiving of relations between human persons and the landscape.