浅析基督教对美国废奴和民权运动的推动作用

已往对美国的废奴运动的研究,大都是从美国北方资本主义工商业的蓬勃发展和落后的南方大量使用奴隶的种植园经济之间的矛盾展开的.当然,研究者也肯定了黑人的觉醒和斗争以及进步白人反对奴隶制的行动.     

Secularisation and the Future of Christianity

The article is not an account of a debate. Rather it summarises a position arrived at over 40 years with respect to Secularisation. It deals with master narratives, the differences between Catholic and Protestant trajectories, with European exceptionalism, and the varying consequences of ‘spirituality’ and individualism.     

Christianity and Philosophy

Continental Philosophy Review -     

Christianity and Agnosticism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion -     

Christianity and Bakhtin

Book reviewed in this article:
Ruth Coates, Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author     

Christianity and Bakhtin

Book reviewed in this article: Ruth Coates, Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author     

St. George the Indigenous Foreigner in Kerala Christianity

The cult of St. George in Kerala, South India, brought initially by Syrian merchants, bolstered by Portuguese and British colonizers, and currently called into question by the Vatican, represents a complex entanglement of cultural and colonial forces. Informed by post-colonial theories which argue for the hybridization of colonized cultures, this paper presents Kerala's St. George cult as reflecting an ambivalent stance toward foreign influences and impositions. In spite of hybrid St. George's occasional expedient association with imperial powers, however, I argue that this European-looking saint is, in the eyes of most of his devotees, uninterested in foreign affairs and, ultimately, a champion for indigenous concerns.     

Integrating Asian Christianity into History of Christianity Courses

This essay begins with diverse arguments for modifying history of Christianity courses to include the experiences of Asian Christianity. After discussing fundamental assumptions, several problems are articulated. The major portion of the essay describes three different strategies for integrating new materials into current curricular offerings. By conceptualizing the relationships between Asian Christianity and the history of Christianity in terms of (1) parallels, (2) supplements, and (3) challenges, material from theformer can be more readily incorporated into the teaching of the latter. Such strategies can be utilized in different teaching contexts, depending on the needs of students and instructors.     

Charismatic Christianity and the Dilemmas of Globalization

Unlike his other books, Walter Burkert's Homo Necans and Creation of the Sacred both explicitly utilise evidence from Roman religion to reach their interpretive goals. But Burkert's use of that evidence is at variance with the meticulousness which has characterised his use of Hellenic evidence throughout his academic career. This article demonstrates how his use of Roman materials is at best impressionistic and incomplete; important evidence is too often missing, and too often a Hellenist's orientation apparently compromises what does appear. More detailed attention to Roman materials could sometimes improve and sometimes undercut the interpretation. Consequently, Burkert's large-scale conclusions are less inevitable than he, and his admirers, might like. Finally, explanations for these circumstances appear in the larger context of the traditional tension between Greek and Roman in the field of classical studies even today. A tacit assumption of those who specialise in Greek religion is that expertise there automatically becomes expertise in Roman religion.