恩施柳州城宗教文化的传承与消融

柳州城是全国重点文物保护单位施州城址的一部分,由于它处于清江流域重要孔道的特殊地理位置,其宗教文化独具特色,融合发展是土家原始宗教与外来宗教相互传承与消融的演变过程。     

文艺复兴时期人文主义者宗教思想的历史地位

文艺复兴时期人文主义者是在对基督教神学传统文化进行批判继承的基础上来阐发自己的宗教思想的。虽然他们没有对教会构成有力的威胁,但他们的活动使人们的思想从教会的束缚中得到了稍许的解放,导致了人们情感和想象力的自由放纵,从而为17世纪国家主义和科学主义的兴起及18世纪理性主义的全面胜利铺垫了道路,并为西方近代思想文化的发展繁荣拉开了序幕。     

西方宗教伦理与儒家政治伦理的价值观比较

西方宗教伦理与儒家政治伦理价值观的差异体现在:西方宗教伦理以关心人类个体生命和生命意义为目标,具有人性化的色彩;儒家政治伦理讲求“内圣外王”,突显个体应负有的道德责任和历史使命。儒家政治伦理的价值标准是政治利益,西方宗教伦理的价值标准是宗教信仰。儒家政治伦理讲求意义与自愿,西方宗教伦理讲求理性与自觉。中西传统伦理与现代经济伦理具有良好的契合点和连续性,在批判的基础上,传统伦理可以向经济伦理转化。     

班固与东汉大赋的再兴与衰败

汉大赋的创作自司马相如、扬雄后,虽赋家众多,但未有大手笔出现。至东汉班固作《两都赋》等,以其题材的开拓、手法的变化,再造汉大賦一时之盛。在理论上和创作实践上,班固以正统的思想指导、实践着自己的讽谏观,以新的认识解决了令扬雄烦恼不已的讽谏问题;他对汉赋创作中的模拟之风并不否定;他在前汉赋家着力甚少的地理、历史等方面开拓了新的题材,为汉大赋体制篇幅的增长打开了新的空间。但由于时代、社会、人文思想的发展变化与文学自身发展的需求等原因,自班固后．汉大赋的兴盛局面难以为继,开始走向衰败。     

中西戏剧宗教因素解析

本文从宗教意识对中西戏剧家的创作主体情感的深入渗透入手,剖析剧作家在宗教潜移默化的影响下形成的审美情趣、价值观念等主体性创作情感,揭示这种宗教主体性视角对戏剧的情节模式和审美机制的强大规约,证明宗教因素在很大程度上塑造了中西戏剧的艺术表现形式并内化为戏剧独特的类型化特征和隽永的审美特质。     

21世纪中华文化的走向

文章在概括地论述19世纪、20世纪世界历史与文明走向的基础上,展望了21世纪人类文明发展的方向。作者指出,中华民族与其他民族复兴和现代化目标的实现以及社会文明的伟大飞跃,将成为21世纪世界历史、人类文化与文明进步的主要标志。     

中国古代文学中死而复生故事的主题学分析

文章考察了死而复生文学母题的流变。中国古代文学中大量的死而复生故事的出现,是因为古人对生死的朴素认识、鬼神观念、乐生恶死的心态以及宗教观念等多种因素。汉魏六朝时期,人们相信鬼神,一些死而复生的故事不仅被志怪小说如《搜神记》记载,而且同时也被正史收录。六朝志怪和唐人小说中为爱情死而复生的女子,都有美好的结局,死而复生把婚恋悲剧变成喜剧。宋元时追求爱情死而复生的女子结局悲惨,最终又再次死去,表现了小说受宋明理学的浸淫又向道学化的方向转变。晚明和清代也有一些话本、小说和戏剧写死而复生的故事,大多表现爱情受到现实阻碍之后的浪漫畅想。李汝珍《镜花缘》中无继国国民死而复生延续生命,表现出漠视功名的早期道家思想,在死而复生的母题中具有创新意义。     

Is your church “liked” on Facebook? Social media use of Christian congregations in the United States

Despite the increasing interests in social media platforms among religious congregations, little is known about the patterns of these organizations' social media use. This study examines religious congregations' adoption of Facebook, using the data from the 2012 National Congregations Study. The results show that Christian congregations' involvement in nonreligious activities, both social service and political activities, predicts their Facebook adoption. Congregations' membership size and staff resources are also positively associated with their Facebook use. Other organizational characteristics, including religious tradition, clergyperson's age, and urban location, also explain congregations' Facebook use. Overall, the findings suggest that Christian congregations' adoption of social media platforms is closely related with their community outreach and social marketing activities as well as their resources. This study concludes with suggestions for narrowing the gap in social media use between resource‐rich and resource‐restricted congregations, as well as between urban and rural congregations.     

“Backstage Autonomy”: Religious-Zionist State Widows in Second Marriages Manage Competing Expectations

ABSTRACT

The article examines the coping mechanisms of state widows belonging to Israel’s Religious-Zionist sector, whose husbands died at an early age either during military service or in terrorist attacks. While the national bereaved community’s collective unconscious expects the widows to dedicate their lives to institutionalized commemoration of their dead husband, Jewish tradition expects them to remarry to rehabilitate their family and children. The widows who were studied seemed to manage the competing expectations successfully: they remarried and maintained a happy family life while entrusting commemoration to the bereaved parents, who are still part of their extended family. The findings point to successful manipulation of the patriarchy of both communities to which they belong, achieving individualization that offers freedom in the private sphere—what we call “Backstage Autonomy”—while perpetuating hegemony on the public level on the Front Stage.