《福声》月刊与福建圣公会文字出版事业

《福声》月刊是中华圣公会福建教区于1931年创办的教会期刊,它的出版发行促进了圣公会福建教区“五运”工作的蓬勃开展,发展了教会自身的文字出版事业,记录了教区传教活动的过程,成为今天研究福建圣公会史不可或缺的资料。笔者在整理、利用《福声》月刊的过程中初步探讨它的性质、特点和历史影响,从文字出版事业的视角研究中华圣公会福建教区的传教历史。     

Same mission, same methods, same results? Academic and religious outcomes from different models of Catholic schooling

A study of comprehensive schools in one English local education authority shows two Catholic schools at opposite ends of the effectiveness spectrum in helping pupils achieve examination success. Subsequent investigation of their understanding and interpretation of Catholic education finds them to represent two paradigms of Catholic school. Some possible causal relationships are explored between their values, attitudes and practices and their pupils' academic achievement.     

Catholic women educators’ discourse and educational measurement in the early twentieth century in the United States

ABSTRACT

In the early twentieth century in the United States, Roman Catholic schools grew in number and became increasingly regulated by state departments of education. This led to the increased influence of public school reform movements in Catholic schools. Some Catholic educators questioned these movements, while others embraced them. Educational measurement strategies, such as IQ and standardised testing, gained support from women religious orders and congregations, who made up the majority of the Catholic teaching force. For pragmatic reasons, they saw some value in the promises of modern educational science for teaching and learning. This practice, however, put them at odds with some of the beliefs and values of their Church. This study demonstrates how Catholic sister teachers attempted to shape the debate on the introduction and use of reform strategies like IQ and standardised testing. It also examines how Catholic sister teachers made use of Catholic beliefs and values to make arguments in favour of IQ and standardised testing in Catholic schools. Using agreed upon Catholic religious tenets and working within their gendered reality, Catholic sister teachers demonstrated how they tried to convince their colleagues, male and female, to come to an understanding around the use of educational measurement.     

论罗马帝国晚期的文化转型与女性婚姻地位变迁

罗马帝国晚期出现了从古典文化向基督教文化的转型,这对妇女生活产生了影响。本文通过比较研究表明,古典文化中的妇女有较多自由,但在婚姻生活中处于不利地位。基督教强调严格的一夫一妻制,将婚姻看作圣事,限制了男子的任意休妻与婚外性行为。因而使妇女婚姻生活得到更多的保障。     

英国1829年"天主教解放法"论析

完整意义上的1829年天主教解放法案包括两个部分的内容：其一是原则上赋予天主教徒以公民权,其二则是针对天主教徒公民权所作的若干限制性规定或“保障”条款。尽管这些“保障”条款未必实有其效,但其作为整个法案之一部分却并非可有可无。如果说,法案的前一部分内容回应了解决天主教徒公民权问题之紧迫性与必要性,那么,后一部分内容则反映出天主教解放问题之深刻的历史复杂性。事实上,天主教解放问题不只是一个与天主教徒宗教政治命运息息相关的问题,也是一个攸关英国宪法的新教性质、英国国教会的存在及其特权、英格兰民族由来已久的反天主教传统以及新教徒尤其是国教徒的宗教认同及其宗教情感归属等等的重大问题。天主教解放问题所具有的这种复杂性,使得法案设计者们必须尽量权衡各种利害关系,兼顾来自不同方面的多种诉求。惟其如此,我们只有将法案两部分内容视为相互关联的整体,方能同情性地理解法案设计者们的历史处境及其复杂心态。     

试论遗嘱自由及其限制

本文从论述罗马法的遗嘱继承制度的演变出发,阐明了古罗马法的遗嘱自由原则和特留分制度,继而借鉴各大陆法系关于遗嘱制度的演变与继承,指出我国遗嘱立法的没有特留分制度所产生的不足之处并提出了改进意见。     

文化视域中的古罗马私人图书馆

古罗马私人图书馆的兴起深受希腊文化的影响,在国家强盛后,罗马人更多地注重精神生活,也促进了私人图书馆的兴起;同时,私人图书馆的兴起也与当时罗马社会盛行的社会思潮分不开。最初的私人图书馆是通过战争掠夺而来的,此后,罗马帝王、学者、书商等社会各阶层为私人图书馆的兴盛做出了很大贡献。私人图书馆在保存和传承罗马文化方面产生过作用和影响,另一方面它也反映出图书馆这一文化载体与文化之间的错位,从而展示出罗马文化的另一底色。     

浅议君士坦丁一世对多神教实行宽容政策的原因

君士坦丁一世是罗马帝国历史上杰出的政治家,在位期间不仅保护和支持基督教,也对传统的多神教采取宽容政策。他对多神教的宽容是其宗教政策的重要组成部分,是出于实际的政治考虑,是为了达到巩固统治、统一帝国以及维持社会稳定的目的。     

英美文学文化语境“三源泉”语料库的构建研究

英美文学文化"三源泉"语料库的构建,可以为英美文学爱好者及英美文学专业的师生提供背景知识和一个学术研究平台,以便更好地欣赏和研究英美文学名家、名作,该语料库的运用对提高学生的英语水平、文学、语言修养和审美情趣也会起到极大的促进作用。     

‘Confessing to wilful disobedience’: an ethnographic study of deaf people’s experience of Catholic religious schooling in the Republic of Ireland*

This ethnographic study examines deaf people’s experience of the Roman Catholic Sacrament of Confession in two Catholic schools for deaf children in the Republic of Ireland from 1950 to 1990. The article fills a gap in Catholic deaf education literature that fails to uncover the experiences of deaf children. It provides space for their storied lives based on a total of 10 loosely structured individual interviews conducted with a purposeful sample of deaf adult participants who were past pupils of Catholic schools. Using ethnographic data, the study illuminates the views of participants concerning the learning obstacles created by a school policy dominated by oralism which prohibited use of Irish Sign Language. The article uncovers children’s experiences of the Sacrament of Penance for disobeying classroom rules against signing. Participants found their schooling experiences exemplify notions of stigma and stereotyping. As children, their response was to either subvert or submit to their school’s policy and religious practice. The findings make a useful contribution to current debates on language issues pertaining to teaching, learning and communication in deaf education. This paper concludes that, although heavily stigmatised in the past, Irish Sign Language has an important role in cultivating equitable access to Religious Education.