李克强:促进宗教关系和谐 维护宗教界合法权益

<正>本届全国人大会议,中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理李克强在政府工作报告中指出:我们要全面贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针,促进宗教关系和谐,维护宗教界合法权益,发挥宗教界人士和信教群众在促进经济社会发展中的积极作用。     

对伊斯兰教传统慈善与现代社会公益相结合的一些思考

习近平总书记在第二次中央新疆工作座谈会上发表重要讲话时指出,要精心做好宗教工作,积极引导宗教与社会主义社会相适应,发挥好宗教界人士和信教群众在促进经济社会发展中的积极作用。国务院总理李克强在十二届全国人大三次会议上作政府工作报告时强调,我们要全面贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针,促进宗教关系和谐,维护宗教界合法权益,发挥宗教界人士和信教群众在促进经济社会发展中的积极作用。“十二五”期间,     

宗教关系理论新发展:以“健康”促“和谐”

今年的政府工作报告中关于促进宗教关系健康和谐的论述,呼应和落实了2016年习近平总书记在全国宗教工作会议上强调的“构建积极健康的宗教关系”的要求,是习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想中宗教观的新阐释、新发展,内涵丰富,意义重大。     

贯彻新精神 开拓新境界北大核心CSSCISSCI

党的十六届六中全会通过的《中共中央关于构建社会主义和谐社会若干重大问题的决定》(以下简称《决定》),对构建社会主义和谐社会作出了深刻理论阐述和重大战略部署。《决定》明确提出"社会和谐是中国特色社会主义的本质属性",强调"社会主义和谐社会既是充满活力的社会,也是团结和睦的社会。必须最大限度地激发社会活力,促进政党关系、民族关系、宗教关系、阶层关系、海内外同胞关系的和谐,巩固全国各族人民的大团结,巩固海内外中华儿女的大团结"。要求"全面贯彻党的宗教信仰自由政策,依法管理宗教事务,坚持独立自主自办原则,积极引导宗教与社会主义社会相适应,加强信教群众同不信教群众、信仰不同宗教群众的团结,发挥宗教在促进社会和谐方面的积极作用。"《决定》的这些新论述,为宗教工作指明了新方向,提出了新要求。国家宗教局党组高度重视对十六届六中全会精神及《决定》的学习贯彻,及时召开党组会进行专题学习,并对全局的学习贯彻工作做出部署。本期,我们约请国家宗教局部分司室负责人,围绕"和谐社会与宗教工作"进行笔谈,以进一步推动宗教工作领域学习贯彻六中全会精神的深入。     

中國基督教新闻

<正>今年《政府工作报告》中提到要做好宗教工作(本刊讯新华社报道)国务院总理李克强2018年3月5日在作政府工作报告时表示,要全面贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针,坚持我国宗教的中国化方向,促进宗教关系健康和谐,发挥宗教界人士和信教群众在促进经济社会发展中的积极作用。     

也谈宗教与构建和谐社会

党的十六届六中全会提出要“充分发挥宗教在促进社会和谐方面的积极作用”的命题以来．关于宗教在构建和谐社会中的作用问题成了学术理论界热议的话题,分歧在于对这一命题的解读。笔者认为．提出这一命题主要是一个目标和要求,对构建和谐社会,宗教教义只能提供一个理论上的可能性．还没有成为现实的力量;发挥宗教在促进社会和谐方面的积极作用不等于我们的社会需要宗教热：我们今天越是强调构建和谐社会,就越要规范宗教活动,革除宗教与现代文明、与社会主义不相适应的陋习。     

让宗教关系更加和谐——十年来我国宗教工作取得显著成就

党的十六大以来,党中央、国务院高度重视宗教工作,提出并全面贯彻宗教工作基本方针,颁布实施《宗教事务条例》,着力促进宗教关系和谐,维护宗教领域的团结稳定,发挥宗教界人士和信教群众在促进经济社会发展中的积极作用,宗教工作在推动科学发展、促进社会和谐中发挥了重要作用。一、全面贯彻宗教信仰自由政策,切实维护宗教界的合法权益。10年来,在中央的坚强领导下,各级政府宗教工作部门认真贯彻落实宗教信仰自由政策,公民信仰或者不信仰宗教的自由权利得到有力保障,信教公民的宗教信仰得到     

共建和谐宗教 促进社会和谐

党的十六届六中全会决定强调,要“发挥宗教在促进社会和谐方面的积极作用”。这反映了党和政府对宗教社会作用的认识进一步深化,对宗教发挥促进社会和谐的积极作用寄予厚望。     

从美国、加拿大和古巴宗教状况看我国宗教如何促进社会和谐

美国、加拿大和古巴社会的宗教氛围极其浓厚,宗教在美国、加拿大、古巴社会和谐中发挥着十分重要的作用。考察美国、加拿大和古巴宗教状况尤其是宗教在促进社会和谐中重要作用,对于结合我国的具体国情做好宗教为构建和谐社会服务的工作,发挥宗教在促进社会和谐方面的积极作用,有着十分有益的启迪意义。     

倡导“保护、管理、引导、服务”的宗教工作理念

党的十八大报告强调,要全面贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针,促进宗教关系和谐,发挥宗教界人士和信教群众在促进经济社会发展中的积极作用。党的十八大通过的《中国共产党章程(修正案)》     

论新中国宗教制度的民主改革

新中国建立初期,具有半殖民地半封建性质的中国宗教,与新生的国家政权不相适应,必须进行改革,而新生的国家政权的巩固,党对宗教问题认识的加深和宗教界对宗教制度民主改革的迫切要求,是宗教制度民主改革的重要条件。在党和政府的推动下,中国宗教界进行了宗教制度的民主改革。经过改革,中国宗教在新中国获得了应有的地位,爱国宗教界成了统一战线的重要组成部分,并开始了与社会主义社会相适应的历程。     

论伊斯兰文化中和谐自然观的宗教特质——基于宗教信仰视域下的认识

在伊斯兰文化中,关于自然界的认识和理解有其独特的宗教含义,这也必然决定了伊斯兰文化中和谐自然观所存在的宗教特质,要科学地认识伊斯兰文化中的和谐自然观,就必须要坚持“伊斯兰教与社会主义社会相适应”的原则,一方面要积极肯定其和谐自然观中的和谐理念和价值,另一方面也要充分地认识其宗教特质,这也同样是伊斯兰教在中国特色社会主义...     

Four frames for the study of creativity

Abstract

In Jean Genet's play The Balcony, the plot revolves around role reversal. Characters who were on the peripherii of society, the pimps, whores, and thieves, all of a sudden find it necessary to assume roles as pillars of society. The basic point of the play is that roles are powerful determinants of behavior, and whoever occupies the role of, say, Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, will behave more or less as anyone else would behave in the same role. People who have watched from the balcony change their behavior when asked to move to center stage.     

《格萨尔》史诗中的生态文化及其现代转换

《格萨尔》史诗蕴藏的丰富的生态文化起源于原始崇拜与宗教信仰,其哲理基础是二元的,藏传佛教“众生平等”的宗教理念是史诗中生态文化的主要哲理基础。古代藏族人民以宗教信仰与宗教惩罚、部落法规及习俗禁忌等社会机制为手段对藏区的自然生态进行了有效的保护,在藏区建立了和谐的生态环境。在生态问题叠出的今天,探讨史诗中的传统生态文化向现代生态文化的转换则具有极为重要的现实意义。建立正确的生态伦理观与自然观,转变生态理念,完善生态保护的制度化、规范化则是进行现代转换的三条主要途径。唯此,《格萨尔》史诗才能在生态的21世纪更加凸显其传统生态文化的现代意义。     

More Things in Heaven and Earth: Sharing the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Religion

Links between current religious status and both childhood play style and adult personality (Five-Factor Model) were explored in a Canadian undergraduate sample. The lifelong religious reported being less open to experience, but more agreeable and conscientious, relative to apostates (who left their childhood faith for no faith), switchers (who migrated to a different faith), converts (who adopted faith since childhood), and the lifelong nonreligious. Relative to the two lifelong groups, apostates and switchers—and, to a lesser extent, converts—reported stronger interest and engrossment in pretend play involving props, peer collaborators, and/or imaginary characters, as well as less interest in organized sports. A childhood predilection for pretend play may function as a marker of greater ability and willingness to consider the implications of experiencing the self in different roles in an “as if” world. In turn, this predisposition may eventuate in a significant ideological shift in response to unmet cognitive and/or emotional needs, consistent with current understandings of religious change.     

Towards the concerned study of religion: Exploring the double power–play disparity

Increasing numbers of students of religion, from various disciplines, address issues of public interest, going beyond documentation and analysis, taking the quality of human life in religion and society as a criterion for their recommendations. Accordingly, systematic reflection on the concerned study of religion is gaining relevance. The approach chosen in this article is to focus on one particular aspect, in this case the double – cognitive and moral – disparity in religious contexts between forms of power and play.Power is viewed as the human capacity to influence other people’s behaviour, even against their will. Play is defined here as the human capacity to deal simultaneously with different realities. Power and play represent two human capacities that in themselves are neutral but in combination may change from means, a situation of parity, into goal, a situation of disparity. A first type of disparity is cognitive in nature. It stems from the reduction of the potential open dynamic meaning-making that the power–play constellation could stimulate as well. A second disparity is of a moral nature. It stems from the fact that the power–play set may come to interfere with the quality of human life. As a set, power and play thus move between the roles of being either subservient means or self-fulfilling goal, between a soft and a hard version.Religion is one field in which the gift for play is applied, resulting in the relationship with a sacred or divine reality. Whereas religions cannot survive without some form of power, the form given to the power–play set marks out a religion’s identity. Within our time the critical study of the double disparity of hard power and play has gained urgency. Global society faces severe problems of poverty, violence, pollution and miscommunication. Religions may act as a cause, but also as problem solver.Students of religion are invited to form multidisciplinary teams to study the double disparity in its actual form, while simultaneously exploring prospects for the promotion of both open meaning-making and the quality of human life, with power and play in a relationship of parity. This turn would necessitate a reappraisal of the research agenda for Religious/World-view Studies. It demands an identity change for this study field, both in the selection of themes for research and funding, and in the explicitly applied nature of scholarly work.     

“A Part of Who I Am”: Material Objects as “Plot Devices” in the Formation of Religious Selves

What role do material objects play in the formation of religious subjects? Drawing from an ethnographic investigation of the evolving relationships between a group of Eastern Orthodox converts and their religious icons, this article develops a theoretical approach to this question that conceptualizes material artifacts as “plot devices” in the formation of religious identity narratives. Integrating insights from studies of material religious culture with narrative theories of identity, this article argues that religious artifacts become significant to religious identity construction to the extent they act as resources for the configuration of a narrative structure in which transcendent or sacred others play a part. As the empirical details of this study demonstrate, attending to how religious objects’ symbolic meanings (i.e., who or what they represent) are mediated by their unique material characteristics (how they make meanings physically present to social actors in embodied social interaction) is of vital importance for explaining the significant role material artifacts play in the religious emplotment of action and experience.     

Faith in the Research Process: Information Behavior at Claremont School of Theology

Abstract

Faith significantly affects the educational experience in graduate studies of religion and theology. This study explored the roles of graduate theological students’ religious faith and degree program affiliation in their information behaviors, particularly their degree-related research behaviors at Claremont School of Theology. The purpose was to explore problems in information action inherent to the dichotomy between academic study of theology that leads to Master of Arts (MA) degree and professional study of theology that leads to Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree. The research design incorporated interviews of MA and MDiv students regarding the roles of their religious faith, degree program affiliation and interpersonal information sources in their research processes. Data were collected, coded and analyzed as a lens into the social network of the theological research community. The study found that information behavior does relate to degree program affiliations and students’ religious faith. Degree program affiliation and religious faith background are relevant to graduate theological research processes and may be useful to consider in research consultations and bibliographic instruction in graduate theological education.     

Christian Affiliation,Christian Practice,and Attitudes to Religious Diversity: A Quantitative Analysis among 13- to 15-year-old Female Students in the UK

Within the context of the “Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity” project at the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, this study examines the association between self-assigned Christian affiliation, self-reported Christian practice, and attitudes towards religious diversity among a sample of 5,748 13- to 15-year-old female students attending schools in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The two hypotheses being tested are that, among female students, nominal Christians do not differ in their attitudes towards religious diversity from unaffiliated students and that church attendance leads to less tolerance of other religious groups. The data partly support the first hypothesis but not the second. Churchgoing Christian female students are more interested in and more tolerant of other religious groups. The data also draw attention to the perceived importance of religious education in schools for shaping views on religion and on religious diversity among unaffiliated students, nominal Christians, and practising Christians. Both the Christian churches and religious education in school seem to have an important part to play in nurturing a tolerant and inclusive religiously diverse society in the UK.