祖师语录

俭于听可以养虚,俭于视可以养神,俭于言可以养气,俭于私可以获富,俭于公可以保贵,俭于门闼可以无盗贼,俭于环卫可以无叛乱,俭于职官可以无     

宗教慈善事业的公信度从哪里来

宗教慈善事业的公信度,来自于它的内在信仰,来自于它的悲悯情怀,来自于它的道德持守,来自于它的民间性质。这就决定了宗教慈善事业的公信度,有着其他慈善事业难以比拟的内在性、普遍性和长久性。     

五台山净土宗探源

五台山净土宗源于慧远,创于昙鸾,盛于善导,集成于法照,流行于后世。     

“做有忠心、有见识、有良善的仆人……”——曹圣洁牧师一行赴广东、浙江、宁夏、北京教会探访

中国基督教协会会长曹圣洁牧师,于2005年11月29日参加上海市两教牧人员退修会;于11月30日参加广东协和神学院神学思想建设研讨会;于12月6日参加浙江省两会委员扩大会议暨神学思想建设研讨会,于12月15日参加宁夏基督教第二次代表会议,于2005年12月16日参加北京市基督教朝阳堂典礼。     

藏传佛教绘画中的拉姆央金玛与其手持乐器之演变

佛教诞生于距今2500多年前的印度,后流传到世界其他地区。其中,流传于斯里兰卡、缅甸、泰国、柬埔寨、老挝和中国傣族地区的巴利语系经典,称南传佛教;流传于中国、朝鲜半岛、日本、越南的汉语系经典,称北传佛教;流传于中国西藏等藏族地区、蒙古族地区,以及不丹、蒙古、印度北部     

齐灭莒说辨疑

莒国灭亡于哪一年,学术界意见有分歧,被谁所灭也有分歧。有《史记·楚世家》所记楚简王灭莒说,此说不见于先秦资料,是孤证;有《墨子》和《战国策》莒亡于齐说。参考青铜器铭文解读,认为莒亡于齐说,不仅不是孤证,而且还有一些旁证。通过辨疑,作者确定相信莒国亡于齐说。     

三教同源——在武夷山"道、儒、释三教论坛"上的讲话

各位朋友:中华民族道、儒、释三大文化体系,对人类社会发展进步都起到了一定的作用,但唯独道文化早,迄今已有五千多年的历史。道文化胚胎于黄帝,集成于老子。老子降生于春秋时代,也就     

宋元明清时期的新安理学

新安理学是历史上以新安(今安徽黄山市,原徽州地区)籍理学家为主干组成的一支地方理学流派。该学派崛起于南宋,发展于元代,寥落于明代,终结于清代,对十二世纪以后中国学术思想的发展演变产生了重大影响。在它近七百年的盛衰过程中,始终有一以贯之的学术宗旨、一脉相传的理学家群和鲜明的学派特色。     

色彩的魅力——读董洲教授的油画

董洲,1980年毕业于山东泰山学院美术系,1990年结业于天津美术学院油画研究生班,1996年结业于山东艺术学院菲利宾科教授油画高研班,2002年结业于教育部国家新美术课程国家级培训班。自1975年起油画作品多次参加山东省美术作品展。中国首届油画双年展、第二届中国油画静物展并获三等     

为雅安祷告,为灾区奉献

1.甘肃岷县基督教会于201 3年4月21日上午,举行为雅安芦山地震灾区祈祷礼拜。2.广西壮族自治区基督教两会于2013年4月22日晚上,举行为雅安芦山地震灾区捐款祈祷会。3.上海基督教清心堂于201 3年4月21日,为雅安芦山地震灾区捐款。4.贵州省大方县基督教会于2013年4月21日,在中心堂为雅安芦山地震灾区祈祷。5.河北省唐山市基督教堂于201 3年4月21日,为雅安芦山地震灾区奉献。6.湖北省武汉市各教堂于2013年4月21日举行祈祷会,为在雅安芦山地震中受灾的同胞祈祷。7.金陵协和神学院于2013年4月22日晚,为雅安灾区人民举行烛光祷告会。     

Extremes of self-esteem and narcissism and the experience and expression of anger and aggression

This study examined the level of self-esteem and narcissism as personality variables involved in the disposition to experience and express anger. Three hundred thirty-eight subjects were sampled across two higher education centres and one student teaching programme in the United Kingdom. It was reasoned that individuals with both high self-esteem and narcissism would report especially high tendencies to experience and express anger and aggression and that those with high self-esteem and low narcissism would report the lowest. These predictions were influenced by theories that emphasise the role of threats to high self-esteem in the production of aggression and violence. Results indicate that groups defined by their extreme scores on self-esteem and narcissism scales produced levels of anger expression in the predicted direction. The importance of considering extreme levels of self-esteem and narcissism (in conjunction with other factors) in an analysis of anger is discussed with reference to currently influential theories in the field. Aggr. Behav. 24:421–438, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Social and Personal Determinants of Adolescent Use and Abuse of Alcohol and Marijuana

This article summarizes research on social and personal determinants of adolescent use and abuse of alcohol and marijuana to aid practitioners when designing interventions.     

Cognitive and Personality Characteristics of Masculinity and Femininity Predict Wayfinding Competence and Strategies of Men and Women

Bem (1974) reconceptualized masculinity and femininity as independent and orthogonal constructs that both men and women possess to varying degrees. This perspective was used as a starting point to investigate whether the contributions of gender-typed characteristics can help to account for commonly observed gender differences in wayfinding (the ability to identify one’s current location and successfully navigate to an unseen location in the environment) favoring men. We further divided gender-typed characteristics into cognitive and personality characteristics to assess their separate influence on wayfinding and explored whether gender-typed characteristics predicted self-reported use of masculine wayfinding strategies (i.e., orientation strategies) and self-reported wayfinding competence. Participants were 452 college women and men in a southern U.S. public university. They completed the Gender-Stereotypic Characteristics questionnaire (Diekman and Eagly 2000), a social comparison questionnaire (created by the authors), a wayfinding strategy questionnaire (Lawton 1994), and a wayfinding competence questionnaire (Hegarty et al. 2002). For both men and women, higher masculine cognitive characteristics significantly correlated with greater use of orientation wayfinding strategies typical of men. For men, both higher masculine and feminine cognitive characteristics predicted better overall wayfinding competence whereas for women, only higher masculine cognitive characteristics predicted better overall wayfinding competence. For both men and women, higher feminine personality characteristics predicted poorer wayfinding competence. These results demonstrated the importance of considering cognitive and personality characteristics of masculinity and femininity in explaining individual differences in wayfinding.     

Self-ratings of positive and negative affect and retrieval of positive and negative affect memories

Abstract

Based on analysis of self-ratings of mood, positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) have been proposed as basic, orthogonal mood dimensions (Watson & Tellegen, 1985). The present study asked subjects (N = 61) to not only provide self-ratings of PA and NA terms but also to retrieve personal memories associated with those terms. Self-rated PA was associated with latency to retrieve PA- but not NA-related memories; self-rated NA was associated with latency to retrieve NA- but not PA-related memories. Self-ratings of PA and NA were not significantly correlated, nor were retrieval latencies for PA and NA memories. Individual item correlations also revealed a strong direct relationship between self-ratings and retrieval latency. The dissociations involving a non-self report measure strengthen the distinction between PA and NA, and the individual item correlations are interpreted as showing that self-ratings of affect are based upon the ease of retrieval of personal memories.