《格林童话》中的宗教世界

作为西方儿童文学的经典作品,《格林童话》中部分作品的令人惊异、超越性的宗教世界,显示了神圣的超自然的力量;一些童话超越了有限的狭隘的视角,为人类在神性的高度对人的精神和人性进行审视提供了可能;《格林童话》中的宗教童话在彼岸世界和此岸世界的明确的界限中,为儿童提供了终极价值的关怀。《格林童话》中的宗教世界植根于西方特殊的文化。宗教价值观的认同,使《格林童话》超越了德意志民族,走向西方,走向世界。     

The place of religion in public education

There is a legitimate place for genuine religious education within publicly supported schools in western pluralist democracies. The idea of the single common school is dead or dying in the densely populated parts of the western, English-speaking democracies. Once choice of school is conceded, then the religious school should be a central offering.Religion has a traditional place in most western democracies, eitherde jure orde facto. Further, there is evidence that religious adolescents make at least as good, and probably better, citizens than do those without religion.Finally, the idea of a consensually acceptable secular alternative based on high moral values is no longer tenable. Anything approaching a common school must be bound by minimal values not a high-level set, because there is simply no large set that is universally acceptable and agreed upon. In practice, urban, public schools serving heterogeneous clients rely heavily on exactly such a minimal set.     

科学与宗教错综复杂的关系

西方的科学与宗教的关系并不仅仅是冲突对立,而是错中复杂的。宗教为科学提供驱动力,同时亦给科学铺设障碍。冲突虽有,可是渐渐地宗教会妥协和接近科学的新思想。要区分好科学与宗教的不同,我们要用积极、发展、宽容的态度去看待两者的矛盾冲突。     

Connecting religion and teacher identity: The unexplored relationship between teachers and religion in public schools

It is increasingly acknowledged that for individuals to participate in a pluralistic and democratic society, they must understand religious conviction and difference. In educational literature, the discussion surrounding education and religion focuses on the implications for students. It is important to consider what this may mean to the teachers, as teachers directly influence student learning. This article uses literature on religion, multiculturalism, teacher identity, and popular culture to connect teachers' private religious identifications to their professional identities in public school classrooms. It supports future research in this area and provides a theoretical framework for subsequent studies.     

A place for informal learning in teaching about religion: The story of an experienced non-Muslim teacher and her learning about Islam

Teacher learning about religion has remained an under-researched topic in spite of the professional accountability placed on teachers to teach about religion in a constitutionally permissible and pedagogically sound way. Using data collected from interviews, the purpose of this study is to describe and examine how and what an experienced Non-Muslim teacher of the world’s religions learned about Islam in today’s climate of accountability and negative imagery of Islam. The findings of this study suggest that informal learning through independent reading and interaction with a local Muslim community can be a means to enculturate teachers of world religions into ways of learning about Islam.     

功能宗教学发微

文章将宗教归结为一种与世俗秩序并列又与其发生千丝万缕关联的信仰体系。文章在以下几个方面展开:在信众心理层面考察了宗教的源起;解析了宗教对社会结构和信众所具有的多重功能;揭示了宗教在思想和行动两个方面的发展逻辑。     

湘西宗教研究述评

学术界对湘西宗教的关注较早,在20世纪40-50年代,石启贵、凌纯声等苗族学者系统地整理了湘西宗教的相关资料。经过"文革"时期的沉寂,20世纪80年代涌现出一大批研究成果,主要集中在对宗教仪式环节中的符号分析、对宗教仪式变迁及其功能的考察、对宗教现象的艺术学研究等方面。尽管成果颇丰,还存在不足,在研究对象上多局限于宗教仪式、宗教现象等方面,忽略了宗教文化外化的物质实体——坛庙宫观寺院等宗教建筑;在研究方法上以田野调查、符号分析、历史考证等抽象描述为主,很少使用科学的量化分析研究。因此,有待加强运用量化分析的方法对坛庙宫观寺院等宗教建筑进行研究。