Contextual identity experiencing facilitates resilience in Native American academics

This article discusses the socio-cultural dynamics that interact with ethno-racial identity experiencing in a previously under-researched group. A qualitative interdisciplinary study with 40 Native American academics from 28 mainstream universities across the U.S. served as a case example with findings that contrasted with historically influential theoretical frameworks postulating identity confusion and conflicts at the intersection of one’s mainstream education and profession versus one’s ethno-racial community grounding. Instead of feeling pressure to identify with only one worldview, the contextual, dynamic identities associated with the inclusive and flexible self-concept of tribal participants allowed them to in turn take advantage of two divergent cultural meaning systems pertaining to their distinct socio-cultural contexts. These shifts were experienced as not endogenous but rather exogenous variables, which did not cause the historically theorized issues. Participants felt their tribal identities instead facilitated meaningful integration of the existing incongruences, which resulted in unexpectedly resilient subjective experiencing.     

Religious Nongovernmental Organizations: An Exploratory Analysis

This paper represents the first systematic attempt at an analysis of religious nongovernmental organizations (RNGOs). Largely ignored as an organizational field, RNGOs constitute a new breed of religious actors shaping global policy–an organizational hybrid of religious beliefs and social activism at local, national, and international levels. This paper proposes a definition of RNGOs, traces the emergence of RNGOs from an historical perspective, and situates them in their current religious and sociopolitical contexts. Drawing on interviews and documentary data from a sample of 263 United Nations-affiliated RNGOs, the author proposes an analytical framework to examine the religious, organizational, strategic, and service dimensions of these organizations. Religious nongovernmental organizations' unique contributions to the redefinition of a just society as well as the sociopolitical challenges arising from their religious identity are discussed.     

批判与高扬——析席勒在宗教观上的矛盾及其原因

席勒的思想中,存在着对宗教的批判和赞扬的矛盾。席勒相信人的自由和美德及神的存在,世俗的宗教压抑人的自由,所以受到席勒的批判,而作为审美假象的游戏的宗教,对人性的和谐起着导向作用,因而受到席勒的赞美。在席勒看来,人性的和谐并不是审美教育的完成,真正自由的人必须具有道德修养,这需要借助于崇高。而代表人类神性的宗教,作为一种典型的崇高,实现了人类的自由、美德及神性的统一,对人类的精神起着提升作用,因而得到席勒的充分肯定。以人性的完善为准绳,席勒批判否定人性完善的世俗宗教,赞扬肯定人性完善的神性宗教,这就是他在宗教观上产生矛盾的原因。     

South African Indian migration in the twenty-first century: towards a theory of ‘triple identity’

This paper is inspired by three issues, namely ongoing research on South Africans of Indian origin, the anecdotal evidence that accumulates through ongoing discussions on a casual level with such people and the increasing interest among researchers about how globalization and transnational movements are impacting upon identity formation among minorities who are seeking employment or a new life in the developed economies of the ‘big five’ English-speaking countries, i.e. the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It is in countries such as these that a third identity emerges and develops to instill a sense of triple identity. The information here suggests that, when people of Indian origin migrate to one of these countries, they continue to cling to South Africa because it is their country of birth, as well as to India, more for sentimental rather than practical reasons. The topic of this paper reflects a contemporary phenomenon not just among the Indians in South Africa, but also among other diasporas such as Chinese in Latin America, whose new and final emigration destination always seems to be the US. In addition, people of Chinese origin in the countries of Indochina, such as Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, experienced similar patterns of becoming diasporas in Europe, North America and Oceania in the 1970s. However, migration implores them to renegotiate their identities in order to adapt and settle in accordance with their newly adopted host territories. This gives rise to an identity that straddles three countries, which induces the need to examine new ways of identity building in a global transnational economy.     

道教文化与世界和平

不同的民族和不同的国家,往往都有自己不同的宗教信仰和传统文化,从而构成一个丰富多彩的人类世界。承认人类文化的多样性,才是人类发展的正确走向。道教是中华传统文化的主要支柱之一,在新的世纪里,它将和整个中华传统文化一道产生其强大的吸引力。道教文化蕴涵的许多合理思想,对现代社会生活有着十分重要的意义。     

“方块布依字”及其在布依族宗教典籍传承过程中的作用

“方块布依字”是布依族民间流传的一种仿汉字的记音符号 ,主要通行于宗教职业者群体。布依族宗教经文手抄本中的用字和造字方法主要有四种 ,或用与布依语相同或相近的音来记录该语音 ,或根据布依语词义、用汉语方块字的字符重新造字 ,或用与布依语同义的词来记录 ,或直接用汉字本身来记录。“方块布依字”在布依族宗教典籍及传统文化的传承过程中具有重要的作用。     

试论汉英谚语之民族特色

文章从历史文化、地理环境、宗教信仰及民俗风情的角度出发,分析了汉、英两个民族的谚语特色.     

从《诗经》看中原文化

《诗经》时代中原各诸侯国的地理位置及诗中所咏风物多数在目前尚存遗迹。《诗经》中作于中原之诗的文化内容,主要是:对祖先神灵崇拜的宗教文化;重视婚爱的民俗文化;追求人体美的文化心理。研究《诗经》时代中原文化具有重要意义:有助于重新认识文化的延续性;有助于明确认识地理环境与文化产生、发展的关系;有助于加深对中原文化乃至我国民族文化特点的认识。     

浅析宗教和巫术的差异

宗教和巫术有高级和低级之别、理性和感性之异 ;宗教和巫术对现实的超越方式不同 ;宗教比巫术具有更高的文化性 ,更大的影响力     

试论中国古代宗教崇拜对象及天人关系之演变

中国古代宗教的崇拜对象是在特定的自然环境和人文环境下 ,从原始宗教发展而来 ,主要是“人”对抽象的“天”进行崇拜。后来 ,在儒道两家的批评和改造下 ,其崇拜对象逐渐由“神灵之天”向“义理之天”、“命运之天”以及“自然之天”演变。与之相应的天人关系 ,也由“天人相分”到“天人相通”,直至最后发展到“天人合一”的最高精神境界。