When ‘Perverts’ were Religious

ABSTRACT

Anti-Catholic polemics from the mid-nineteenth century made frequent comparisons between religious practices in Britain, Ireland and India. The supposed atrocities taking place at locations such as Lough Dearg in County Donegal and ‘Juggernaut’ (Jagganath) at Puri were denounced in terms which hinted strongly at a striking combination of extreme asceticism and perverse sexual enjoyment. In the same period the word ‘perversion’, which had hitherto referred to apostasy, started to develop connotations of sexual deviance. Protestant sexualized readings of Catholic and Hindu asceticism appear to have been an important site for the development of conceptions of deviant sexuality in general and masochism in particular.     

宗教背景下的中西体育文化

现代体育是西方文明的产物,西方文明有着深厚的宗教基础。中国既然已经融会到现代体育的主流,就不能只图形似而不讲宗教述求。比较中西方体育与宗教的形成与发展,探求在人类文明发展的过程中二者相互作用关联互动的内在机理,将为我国体育的发展觅得一条崭新的思路。     

民俗体育文化对城镇居民体育休闲观念的影响

民俗体育活动是依托节气、节日、民间生活和受一定宗教影响开展的,具有特定的历史文化或民族风情文化。民俗体育文化讲究“天人合一”、“和谐统一”,从精神修养入手,追求内外兼修、神形统一、心身并向、动静结合、刚柔相济,对城镇居民的体育休闲观念将产生长期影响。因此应求新、求变可持续发展,将民俗体育文化与世界体育文化相融合,开展多元化、个性化的体育休闲活动,满足城镇居民休闲娱乐的需求。     

浅谈宗教与少数民族传统体育的发展

少数民族传统体育自产生后,依附于生产方式、传统文化、传统习俗、庆典节日、舞蹈、军事等,还同祭祀、供奉、敬神等宗教活动相结合,既是心理的满足,又是社交的手段,宗教活动对少数民族传统体育的形成和发展起到了积极的促进作用。     

不同语境下的宗教公共性及其对当代中国宗教之意义

宗教不是一个空名,而是一个实在,是一个以信仰为纽带把社会成员联系起来的组织。任何宗教都不可能是私人或个人的。强调宗教的公共性,就是强调宗教团体对社会公共事务的关注。强调宗教、哲学、神学的公共性是西方社会思想的一种发展趋势。中外学者对公共性的理解存在的差异,是他们各自所处的不同文化背景和处境引起的。历史和现状决定了中国不可能再走政教合一的"公"的宗教道路,而就政府与宗教团体的关系来说,其最佳状态应当是相互调适,共存共荣,和睦相处。在当代中国,合法的中国宗教可以发挥作用的领域很多。     

Assimilation, Faith and Identity: Educational Implications of Change and Continuity

In England, the presence of an established church places its adherents within the social mainstream. Other religious groups have been tolerated though suffering social and educational disadvantages. With the passage of time through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, minority religious groups such as Irish Catholics have been assimilated into the host culture, and allowed to have their own schools.
However, it would appear that contemporary movements of people to the United Kingdom have retained loyalties not only to their own religion, but, in some instances to their own language, which they perceive as a vital element of their own culture and identity. Demands for schools, within the state-funded system, for minority religious groups have not lessened. As faith schools in England increase in number, their role in a multicultural society becomes increasingly problematic. Lessons about changing models of assimilation and identity can be learnt from a brief review of the historic Irish Catholic experience that, in turn, can illuminate the current experience of a Greek Orthodox school in south London.     

身体的狂欢与心灵的追索--郭良蕙《心锁》中女性悲剧的探究

郭良蕙的《心锁》是20世纪60年代台湾文坛上争议极大的一部小说。作者从女性婚恋题材出发,大胆书写女性的情感欲望,直面特殊时代下女性的婚恋困境。大写的性是郭良蕙的独特之处,也是她颇受攻击之处。但透过性的描写,我们看到的是时代的风云变幻、社会风气的急剧变化,以及女性的真实心理和情感困境。在接近通俗的题材中,作家表达了身为女性的控诉和追问,有着严肃而深挚的精神内核。     

艾米莉·狄金森诗歌世界探微

作为美国诗歌史上唯一可同华尔特·惠特曼相媲美的伟大诗人,狄金森的诗歌以想象丰富,意象奇特、艺术表现形式多种多样著称。从狄金森诗歌意象涉及最多的自然、情感、宗教入手,寻找其诗歌灵魂的吉光片羽,探寻这个敏感与敏锐的女诗人之魂。     

基于高校安全保卫和学生管理视野下的宗教工作研究——以东部地区为例

当前高校校园宗教工作出现的新形势和新情况给高校安全保卫和学生管理工作带来了很多新挑战和新压力,同时也引起了社会的高度关注。深入研究大学生宗教信仰情况,切实加强高校宗教教育管理工作,对防范和抵御敌对宗教势力渗透具有重要的现实意义。     

东方建筑艺术的象征性研究

东方建筑艺术源远流长。东方建筑最突出的美学特征就是象征性。东方建筑的"居中布局"象征了民族——家庭的凝聚意识。东方建筑的大台阶、高台和尖塔等样式,象征着专制社会的强权政治和严格的社会等级秩序。可以说,东方建筑无论从样式形体设计到整体的布局,从色彩的运用到装饰的部件形象,都充满了象征性的意蕴。只有把握了东方建筑的象征性,才有可能揭示东方建筑艺术的文化奥秘。