“文化借壳”：伊斯兰文化与中国传统文化有机结合的手段——关于嘎德忍耶门宦九彩坪道堂的田野考察

文化的多样性导致人类社会的矛盾与冲突,但是文化的相互交融与渗透也是人类社会发展规律性标志。中国伊斯兰教嘎德忍耶门宦九彩坪道堂的“文化借壳”现象引入注目,外来的伊斯兰文化在这里与中国传统文化的接轨,成为文明对话在中国的成功范例之一。而“文化借壳”,体现出嘎德忍耶门宦九彩坪道堂及其穆斯林教下在恪守伊斯兰教信仰根本的前提下对“主流文化”“国家文化”的认同,这种认同,促进了西北地区多民族杂居中的文化交流,减少了文化冲突,有利于文化理解与民族团结。     

主体、多样、仁和、共通——中国宗教文化生态重建的未来思考

在全球化、现代化的背景下,中国宗教文化生态的重建将是一个多文化碰撞交流的过程。从文明发展的趋势看,生态文明将会作为一种崭新的文明而崛起。未来中国宗教文化生态的样态,当是传统宗教文化生态基础上的断续重接。总结经验,以古鉴今,充分发挥传统文化优秀因子,吸收各种文化的长处,坚持主体、多样、仁和、共通的中国宗教文化生态发展方向,对提高民族文化软实力,促进宗教间、宗教与社会、宗教与世界间的良性互动沟通有着重要的意义。     

平等视野下中小学性别教育问题研究

性别教育是一种平等教育,要求老师要正视差异、接受多元、尊重存在差异的个体,要摒弃男权文化下传统性别教育的条条框框,从平等教育、建立平等师生关系、性教育等方面实践性别教育。通过建构性别友善的校园环境,打破传统性别角色的束缚,引导学生正确认识性及情感问题,开创一个认可差异、肯定差异、接纳多元、尊重多元的校园环境,让青少年不受性别因素的不良影响,健康成长。     

多元文化共存的边塞古城:右卫镇

边塞古城右卫镇,军事文化影响随处可见,堡子、长城、古城等军事设施至今犹在;右卫镇是走西口必经之地,边地商贸文化值得研究;有满汉回等民族,民族信仰复杂,但和谐共存。不管是商业文化、宗教文化还是戏曲文化都有着浓厚的军事历史背景。     

“Once in a Blue Moon … Anything is Possible”

Each of the articles in this volume highlights concerns and issues related to cultural diversity and community development. Together they provide significant guidance for further work in theory construction and curriculum development, and offer direction for effective practice and research. Leadership development, self-help, and empowerment practice approaches are presented for work in communities of color and neo-gemeinschaft communities. Effective methods and strategies for working with diverse populations in changing social and economic times are provided for community practitioners and faculty.     

Reducing Prejudice Within Community-Based Organizations

ABSTRACT

Efforts to help community-based organizations (CBOs) develop interventions that reduce prejudice within the workplace and during service provision can be informed by social psychological prejudice reduction techniques, which tend to be successful in controlled laboratory settings but have limitations that inhibit utility in applied settings. Alternatively, the use of diversity training to reduce prejudice has increased within the for-profit sector, but is rarely applied to CBOs. This article discusses the overlap between the basic and applied literatures, and how community practitioners can use the information gained from both to support CBOs who encounter challenges with diversity.     

Stopping Child Bullying: Educators' Diverse Approaches for School Improvement

This original case-study research investigates educational professionals' answers to survey questions regarding how to eradicate child bullying. Twenty school professionals from two different schools—one school at the elementary level and the other school at the high school level—detailed their own particular bullying problems they see while serving in their own unique leadership capacity role and learning organization and what proactive initiatives they have modeled or participated in either individually or collectively to stop school bullying. Educational professionals were asked to detail any school-based policies already set in place or any procedural guidelines that will soon become implemented regarding stopping child bullying. Of the study results from participants, findings demonstrate that more critically intensive focus should be placed on school bullying by district wide anti-bully programs and being more frequently assessed. The survey is included at the end of this article (see Appendix).     

Diversity in Canada: Predictors of the perceptions of social interactions

ABSTRACT

Language is an important characteristic of culture. Importantly, with the ever-present migration of persons across countries and cultures, physical boundaries of language have been blurred creating a robust area of study: language brokering in the context of globalization. Migration and immigration often necessitate the learning of a new language and in immigrant families, open an opportunity for language skill differences and language brokering. Language brokering is a process by which a bilingual individual, often the children of immigrants, assists in communication between two parties speaking distinct languages. This common practice has generated an increased focus and body of research on the current and aftereffects of language brokering on individuals who broker. The present article provides a brief review of the literature on language brokering including identified antecedents and select outcomes such as family, academic, and psychological outcomes. Overall, the literature shows the associations among language brokering, the contexts in which it may occur, and the outcomes (family, academic, and psychological) for language brokers remain less than clearly understood, although inroads are being made as researchers delve more deeply into specific areas such as parentification, age, child development, and family dynamics.     

Depression and Religiosity in African American and White Community-Dwelling Older Adults

SUMMARY

This research examined the extent to which religiosity was predictive of level of depression, even after controlling for race, gender, social support, income sufficiency, and physical health. Data were collected using in-home interviews conducted from 1999 to 2001 with 1,000 adults age 65 to 106. Subjects were recruited from a stratified, random sample of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older in five central Alabama counties (three rural and two urban). The sample was stratified by county, race, and sex and included balanced numbers of African American males and females and White males and females. Highly religious persons had lower levels of depression, even when controlling for other known covariates, β = -.16, t(972) p < .001. Females reported higher levels of depression, β = .07, t(972) p < .05. Although race was unrelated to depression in the model including gender and religiosity only, African Americans reported fewer symptoms of depression than did Whites when social support, income sufficiency, and physical health were added to the model, β= -.08, t(972) p < .01. Results suggest the importance of health and social service professionals' drawing upon older adults' positive spirituality in professional interventions to prevent and treat depression.     

首届海峡两岸人类学论坛综述

首届海峡两岸人类学论坛着重探讨地方社会在今天全球化冲击与影响下所呈现出的多元文化特质,以及少数民族之当代人类生态问题,同时前往台湾邵族与赛德克族村落进行实地田野调查,旨在从相关议题的讨论与实地田野中,达成海峡两岸一次自由且极具针对性的交流与对话,并在对共同关注的议题的深入探讨中,推动中国人类学持续性发展.