道教的财神崇拜与拜金主义的本质差异

顾名思义,财神崇拜,自然是对财富的祈求。社会在不断地发展,人类的物质生活,本来就应该越来越富足,人们对它的追求与祈愿,当也无可厚非。但我们却发现,同样以物质利益的追求为指向,我国本土宗教道教的财神崇拜,与西方传入的拜金主义,其实却存在着本质上的巨大差异。     

关公崇拜在越南

从笔者在国外所作的田野调查、笔者自己抄录的关公庙碑铭、华人会馆碑铭、越南社会科学院图书馆所藏的田野调查材料、越南汉喃研究院所藏古籍文献及前人研究成果来看,历史上关公崇拜在越南非常盛行,其主要原因是华侨华人的积极传播和中越文化的共性,从总体来看,今后关公崇拜在越南的发展呈衰微之势,但仍将长期存在。     

Omniscience and worthiness of worship

At first glance, the properties being omniscient and being worthy of worship might appear to be perfectly co-instantiable. (To say that some properties are co-instantiable is just to say that it is possible that some object instantiate all of them simultaneously. Being entirely red and being a ball are co-instantiable; being entirely red and being entirely blue are not). But there are reasons to be worried about this co-instantiability, as it turns out that, depending on our commitments with respect to certain kinds of knowledge and notions of personhood, it might be the case that no being—God included—could instantiate both. In this paper, I lay out and motivate this claim before going on to consider a variety of responses—some more plausible than others—that may be offered by the theist.     

Digit ratio and celebrity worship

The current study tested the hypothesis that digit ratios would be associated with celebrity worship, especially among adolescents. Our sample consisted of 45 male and 61 female participants aged 12-14 years (M = 13.20, SD = 0.71). We measured the digit ratios on the participants’ right hands and used the 23 items of the revised Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) to explore the degree to which participants engaged in celebrity worship. The average digit ratio was 0.95 (SD = 0.04) among male participants and 0.97 (SD = 0.05) among female participants. The mean CAS scores were 50.06 (SD = 20.63) for male participants and 64.49 (SD = 18.04) for female participants. The digit ratios for the entire sample were positively correlated with CAS scores (r = 0.29, p < 0.005). However, the digit ratios were positively correlated with CAS scores among female (r = 0.51, p < 0.001) but not male (r = −0.13, p = .394) participants. Our research found evidence of a significant positive correlation between 2D:4D ratios and celebrity worship in females but not in males, which indicated that females with lower digit ratios were less likely to worship celebrities.     

水神萧公信仰的形成与地域扩展

萧公信仰肇迹于江西新淦大洋洲,明清时期盛极一时。历史上萧公信仰的形成与新淦的自然环境、萧氏宗族密切相关。明代萧公神在与国家、地方社会之间的互动中获得两次国家加封赐号,使自身演变为国家正统神灵。伴随着萧公神地位的不断提高,其影响力与日俱增,萧公信仰开始对外传播,地域扩展的范围越来越广,最终萧公神成为民众广泛奉祀于江河湖泊的一位水神。     

The homosexual subculture at worship: A participant observation study

The author worked for ten months as Director of Christian Education at a church serving the homophile community of a large metropolitan area. Using the method of participant observation, he concluded that the group is attempting to solve two problems centering on their sexual orientation and their religious needs. Past social conditioning has told the group that they cannot be bothChristian andhomosexual. The group resolves this cognitive dissonance by emphasizing the message that God loves all men, including homosexuals. This religious message is, contrary to expectations, expressed in theologically conservative language.     

听名人则藐之

<正>《孟子.尽心下》曰:"说大人则藐之,勿视其巍巍然。"《孟子注疏》对此解释为:"说大人之法,心当有以轻藐之……而不畏之,则心舒意展,言语得尽而已。"意思是说,因为普通人爱犯的毛病是见了权贵容易害怕,一害怕就会就会犯糊涂,话都说不全了,所以,面对"巍巍然"的诸公,要想说得明白,必须先得"藐之"。