The Heresy of African-Centered Psychology

This paper contends that African-centered models of psychopathology represent a heretical challenge to orthodox North American Mental Health. Heresy is the defiant rejection of ideology from a smaller community within the orthodoxy. African-centered models of psychopathology use much of the same language and ideas about the diagnostic process as Western psychiatry and clinical psychology but explicitly reject the ideological foundations of illness definition. The nature of the heretical critique is discussed, and implications for the future of this school of thought are offered.     

从《百论》中佛教对“外道”的批驳看中观派的理论特色

本文对佛教中观派的主要论著之一《百论》进行了深入研究。对中观派与印度思想史上的其他一些影响较大的派别之间在一系列重要理论上的对立进行了较全面的对比分析,并就大乘佛教中观派的理论特点作了论述。     

异端两千年--大事记

笔者对于异端学的兴趣源自对于"大师"爱克哈特的生平和著作的多年研究.因此,笔者是在提出应该对异端现象具有某种宽容或者说是同情的爱克哈特派观点的框架内,试图对自"异端之父"西门·马古斯"行传"到第二个千年末的"基督教的反面"做一个评述,特别是要比较深入地阐释中世纪时代.[1]     

Heresy and Monastic Malpractice in the Buddhist Court Cases (Vinicchaya) of Modern Burma (Myanmar)

Over the past four decades, Buddhists in Burma, mainly monks, have been brought before Sangha courts charged with heresy, adhamma, and malpractice, avinaya, under the jurisdiction of the State Sanghamahanayaka Committee. This body, established under General Ne Win in 1980, oversees the regulation and conduct of the Sangha. The religious courts that try these cases have the backing of state law enforcement agencies: failure to comply with their judgements is punishable by imprisonment. A guilty verdict has been passed in all seventeen cases to date. There is no opportunity of appeal. The system not only protects Burmese Buddhism against corruption, but also stifles innovation and dissent. These cases, not previously discussed in scholarship outside of Burma, are significant for understanding the power of the State over the Sangha as well as the conservatism and antisecularism of Burmese Buddhism, which have set it at odds with the relativist approaches of modern, global Buddhism.