张金涛副会长赴港出席第五届道教文化及管理暑期研修班结业典礼

<正>7月23日,香港蓬瀛仙馆与香港中文大学共同举办的"第五届道教文化及管理暑期研修班"在香港中文大学举行了结业典礼。中国道教协会副会长、江西省道教协会会长张金涛专程赴港出席并致辞。张金涛副会长说,这次培训邀请的全部都是江西省道教弟子,可见香港蓬瀛仙馆对江西省道教的支持,更是对内地道教发展的重视。研修班培训共20天,主要针对内地学员道教业务知识的提高。通过学习,大家受益匪浅,不仅了解了香港道教的先进理念及其管理模式,更对新时期如何弘扬道教有了新的认识。     

第四次“道教思想与中国社会发展进步”研讨会暨第八届道教音乐汇演在南昌举办

11月15日至16日,第四次"道教思想与中国社会发展进步"研讨会暨"天籁仙韵颂和谐"第八届道教音乐汇演在江西南昌隆重举行.此次活动由中国道教协会主办,江西省道教协会协办,南昌万寿宫和西山万寿宫承办.     

云南剑川白族道教朝北斗科仪研究

道教祭祀北斗的斋醮仪礼,随着道教传入云南,在云南许多有道教信仰的地方均有传承,除汉族之外,在大理白族等少数民族中至今保留了较为完整的祭祀北斗的仪式。本文以云南剑川白族"正一灵宝符箓派"的朝北斗为例,记录、探讨至今在云南传承的古朴、虔诚而具民族特色的北斗信仰。     

台湾道教界组团赴福建东山岛参加关帝文化活动

6月15日,由台湾23个道教团体和300多家宫、庙共540多名代表组成的道教参访团,在台湾中华道教总会理事长张柽等的率领下,经金门乘船抵达厦门和平码头后,转赴东山岛,参加"第二届漳州旅游节、第十七届海峡两岸(福建东山)关帝文化旅游节暨闽台水产品博览会"。     

简讯

福清市石竹山道院举办海峡两岸道教圆梦之旅暨第二届石竹山梦文化节活动2010年1月2日至9日,福建福清市石竹山道院举办了海峡两岸道教圆梦之旅暨第二届石竹山梦文化节系列活动。来自台湾无极三清总道院、台湾净明忠孝道教会等台湾宫观和道教团     

关于撰述当代《台湾道教史》的诠释建构试探——兼论台湾本土世业道坛与道法传承谱系的相关研究突破问题

本文以台湾本土世业道坛与道法的传承谱系为中心,来讨论当代《台湾道教史》诠释建构的体系架构概念,以及检视前人研究的主要贡献与可补充之处,藉以凸显从道坛道法的根源性及其发展性的相关考察,所累积的一些新的研究个案与突破的意义,并尝试提供对当代《台湾道教史》体系性诠释建构的具体参考例证.     

平阳东岳观道乐 传承久远 流韵四方

道教音乐是道教文化的重要组成部分,它传承久远、旋律古雅,体现了宗教与艺术的有机结合,是中华优秀传统文化的重要载体。在新的时期,积极开展道教音乐的"活态传承",让道教音乐走上创造性转化和创新性发展路径,值得深入研究和探讨。     

中国道教协会组团赴台湾高雄镇南宫参加活动

应台湾高雄镇南宫仙公庙的邀请,5月7日至16日,中国道教协会会长任法融、秘书长王哲一一行五人,参加了台湾高雄市凤山镇南宫仙公庙"辛卯年吕祖文化季"相关活动,并访问了台湾部分道教宫观。5月8日上午,镇南宫仙公庙"辛卯年吕祖文化季开幕典礼"在镇南宫前广场隆重举行。中国道教协会会长任法融、秘书长王哲一,台     

武夷山道教印象

道教尊奉武夷山为三十六洞天之第十六洞天"武夷山洞"。道教在武夷山有深厚的传承基础,秦汉以来,武夷山是历代方士羽客隐遁之所,山中各个峰、岩、景点,都融入了道教文化不同程度的印记,至今山中仍存武夷宫、止止庵等道教活动场所。     

海峡两岸三地道教界为台湾“8．8”风灾水灾举行祈福解厄追荐法会

8月8日,罕见的台风暴雨给台湾中南部地区同胞的生命和财产造成重大损失.风雨无情,人间有爱.海峡两岸同根同祖,血脉相连,两岸道教更是人同宗、神同源.连日来,大陆和港澳道教界,与全国人民一样,关注着台湾的灾情,心系同胞的安危.     

中文语境下的“心理”和“心理学”

“心”或“心理”等词语在汉语中有相当长的历史,对这些词语的理解反映了中国人关于“心理”的认识。中文的“心”往往不是指一种身体器官而是指人的思想、意念、情感、性情等,故“心理学”这三个汉字有极大的包容性。任何学科都摆脱不了社会文化的作用,中国心理学亦曾受到意识形态、科学主义和大众常识等方面的影响。近年中国学者对心理学自身的问题进行了反思。从某种意义上说,中国人对“心理”和“心理学”的理解或许有助于心理学的整合,并与其他国家的心理学一道发展出真正的人类心理学     

"鬼月"话"鬼"

每年阴历的七月,人们俗称“鬼月”,民间至今还流传“七月半,鬼乱窜”的迷信谚语。而七月十五的“中元节”,传言更为离奇,据说这天鬼魂全出,人们不可乱走,更忌出远门。倘若碰到鬼魂一年都将不吉利。鬼从何来?其实心理学家早就指出:一般来源于客观事物的突然出现,但却没有直接作用于人的感觉器官,而是头脑中所     

Irrelevant differences in the "same"--"different" task

This article examines the effects of irrelevant information on the multidimensional "same"--"different" task. Subjects were instructed to compare two geometric figures with respect to certain attributes but to ignore other attributes in making the "same"--"different" decision. The irrelevant attributes were chosen in such a way that they could not easily be ignored to see how the existence of irrelevant differences would affect the comparison process. As expected, the overall latencies were longer than is usually found in tasks with no irrelevant differences. However, the nature of the comparison process appeared unchanged. The usual finding of a "fast-same" phenomenon persisted even when irrelevant information was present. The similarity of the results in this task to results in the "same"--"different" task with no irrelevant features supports the idea that the same comparison mechanism is used whether or not irrelevant differences are present in the stimulus pairs. The results suggest a more general-purpose comparison mechanism than is usually included in models of this task. Two-process models of visual comparisons are thus ruled out entirely. A modified version of Krueger's noisy-operator theory does appear consistent with the results.     

"Brainwashing" Theories in European Parliamentary and Administrative Reports on "Cults" and "Sects"

This study examines the recent rash of official reports done by governmental agencies in Western Europe to guide policy development in those societies. Particular attention is given to reports in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Italy, and to the changes in such reports that have occurred, perhaps because of the influence of scholarly critiques offered for some of the earlier reports. The reports are divided into "Type I" and "Type II" reports, with the former being thorough-going in their anti-cult orientation, and the latter reports being more moderate in tone, with some attention paid to scholarship on new religions. However, the major thesis of the study is supported, as an examination of both types of reports reveals that they incorporate "brainwashing" and "mind control" imagery imported from the United States, even though such theories have been largely discounted within the United States. Use of such theories leads directly to some questionable policy recommendations, as demonstrated in the reports. Reasons for the spread of "brainwashing" ideas to Europe are discussed.     

"Near" and "far" in language and perception.

A major interest in cognitive science is the relationship between linguistic and perceptual representations of space. One approach to exploring this relationship has been to investigate aspects of the linguistic encoding of space that correspond closely to aspects of the visual system. Another approach, which does not contradict the first but rather complements it, is to investigate ways in which linguistic and visual representations of space are different. This paper pursues the second approach by arguing that the distinction between proximal and distal demonstratives (e.g. this vs. that, here vs. there) does not correspond to an independently established distinction between near and far space in the visual system but is instead based on language-internal factors. Recent neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies suggest that the brain contains separate mechanisms for representing, on the one hand, near or peripersonal space which extends roughly to the perimeter of arm's reach and, on the other hand, far or extrapersonal space which expands outward from that boundary. In addition, crosslinguistic research suggests that it is very common for languages to have two basic types of demonstrative terms - proximal and distal. This parallelism raises the possibility that the linguistic distinction may derive from the perceptual distinction. However, several arguments support the contrary view that the two distinctions are independent of one another. A substantial proportion of languages in the world have demonstrative systems that divide space into three or more egocentrically-grounded regions, thereby violating the two-way perceptual contrast. Even more importantly, empirical studies of how demonstratives are used in ongoing discourse in different languages suggest that they do not encode quantitative spatial information such as within vs. beyond arm's reach; instead, they specify abstract semantic notions that, when combined with the unique pragmatic features of communicative contexts, allow speakers to make a virtually unlimited range of spatial distance contrasts. Thus, demonstratives constitute an interesting case of divergence between linguistic and perceptual representations of space.