Religious Leaders and the Environmental Crisis

Despite the presence of forward‐looking religious leaders at higher levels, there is little recognition and understanding among local‐level leaders about climate change and the irreversible impacts of global warming. This article illustrates this lack of insight among religious leaders and provides suggestions to increase their awareness of the environmental crisis and its solutions. It uses as examples Islamic teachings that Muslim muftis can use to protect the environment, and emphasizes religious leaders’ influence, roles, and responsibility in establishing justice for the earth, for the next generations, and for all creation. Although most of the facts and examples in this article are from a Middle East and North Africa Region and Islamic perspective, its arguments can be applied generally.     

Kierkegaard's Social Theory

Despite recent attention on the social implications of his work, little has been done to articulate a substantive Kierkegaardian social theory. In this paper, I argue that Kierkegaard's A Literary Review describes four principles of social analysis. Together they reveal the social character of Kierkegaard's thought while presenting significant challenges for more traditional ‘social readings’ of his work.     

论宗教宽容

不同宗教之间 ,宗教与世俗社会之间应当相互宽容、相互容忍 ,相互承认、相互尊重 ,相互对话、相互理解 ,以切实实现和保障宗教自由与宗教信仰自由。为此 ,我们须承认人的意志自由 ,实施政教分离原则以及世俗政治权力分立与相互制衡原则。     

宗教生态论

宗教生态论是用文化生态学的眼光研究不同范围中宗教文化生命系统总体态势、层次结构、内外关系、动态运行的机制,考察世界三大宗教生态模式:亚伯拉罕系统的一元分化式、印度系统的一元多神蝉变式、中国的多元通和模式,说明宗教生态论的理论价值,重点阐述中国宗教良性生态的失衡与重建。     

The self in Kierkegaard's pseudonyms

Conclusion This is essentially what I take to be Kierkegaard's ontological foundation of human existence. It is the structure which both makes possible and unifies the different modes of existing which he so fully describes in his pseudonyms. The further task is one of demonstrating concretely the relation of these modes (stages) of existing to his ontology.This essay will appear in my book, Being and Existence in Kierkegaard's Pseudonyms, to be published by Princeton University Press in 1975. I would like to thank the Princeton University Pres for permission to publish a portion of the book in this journal. I would also like to acknowledge my colleagues' helpful criticisms of the original draft of this paper which I read in a departmental seminar at Iowa State University last fall. Some of their suggestions were incorporated in the final draft.     

The paradox in Kierkegaard's religiousness A

The attempt to utilize the methods of science to justify one ethical code as opposed to another has the advantage of avoiding the dogmatism and question‐begging techniques characteristic of many traditional ethical theories. However, such attempts are invariably involved in value reductionism, leaving normative terms bereft of their normative import. Science is related to ethics in a number of important ways, but not in the sense that inductive evidence can justify one standard of right conduct as opposed to others.     

美国9·11之后的宗教丑闻与信仰危机

宗教在美国人的社会生活中占有十分重要的地位.代表美国精神的<独立宣言>和美国宪法都与基督教传统中天赋人权的思想有深厚的联系,宗教与美国最早的移民浪潮、美国的革命以及民权运动也有千丝万缕的联系,直至20世纪末,仍有96%的美国人信仰上帝,98%的人定期祷告,人们普遍认为美国是西方国家中宗教色彩最浓厚的,甚至有人还将教会比作美国公民的道德孵化器.可是,9·11以后,这种普遍的观念却遭到了严峻的挑战,导致了美国大众媒体上所说的教会危机或信仰危机.     

论宗教信仰与宗教行为的分离——以"中国汉民族宗教体验调查"为例

本文以2005年"中国汉民族宗教体验调查"结果为基础,就当代中国宗教徒的宗教冷漠、非宗教徒的宗教倾向和无神论者的宗教兴趣展开讨论,试图揭示当代中国汉族民众宗教信仰与宗教行为分离的现实,并就其缘由进行初步探讨。