Reconnecting Religion with Social and Cultural History: Secularization's Failure as a Master Narrative

This article argues that the religious history written within the last thirty years has been unduly constrained by the impact of the secularization thesis. Through evaluating the original historiography and sociology that gave birth to it, and aspects of its cultural presence in Western (predominantly British) society and finally through an examination of the most recent scholarship, secularization emerges as a belief in itself. Focusing upon religion as a means of organizing responses to the world the article concludes with some suggestions about the directions the construction of religious history reunited with social and cultural concerns might wish to follow away from a now less than useful theory.     

女书装饰艺术的文化色彩

女书是字，也是艺术。女书字符号本身的装饰性、女书作品中插图图案的装饰性、女书装帧上的装饰性以及其他带有女书符号纹样的女红用品上的装饰性，共同构成了女书特有的装饰艺术。(图1)本拟从民间艺术角度探讨女书装饰艺术中透露出来的化倾向，以进一步认识女书产生和发展的化背景。