爱国爱教 弘道利人 开创道教事业的新局面——中国道教协会第六届理事会工作报告

各位领导、各位代表:现在,我受中国道教协会第六届理事会委托,向第七次全国代表会议作工作报告,请予审议。一、六年来工作的回顾中国道教协会第六次全国代表会议于1998年8月召开,距今已经六年多了。过去的六年,对我们国家来讲是具有重大历史意义的六年,也是极不平凡的六年。在此期间,召开了具有历史意义的中国共产党十六大和十六届三中、四中全会。全党、全国各族人民高举邓小平理论、“三个代表”重要思想伟大旗帜,在党中央领导下,团结一致,奋力拼搏,战胜种种困难,在改革开放和经济发展诸方面都取得了举世瞩目的伟大成就。党中央、国务院高…     

和谐社会：道教的人生祈愿

实现社会和谐,建设美好家园,始终是人类孜孜以求的一个社会理想。温家宝总理在今年的政府工作报告中提出要着力构建“民主法治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处”的社会主义和谐社会。这是当前我们国家抓住和用好重要战略机遇期、落实科学发展观、实现全面建设小康社会宏伟目标的必然要求。社会主义和谐社会,应是人与自然和谐发展的社会,应当是物质文明、精神文明、政治文明和谐发展的社会,应当是各方面利益不断得到有效协调的社会,应当是稳定有序、公平公正的社会。构建社会主义和谐社会,体现了我们这个时代和…     

祖天师立教要义述略——读《老子想尔注》随笔

太上老子,历世化生,宣说道要,教化万方。迨及汉代,祖天师得太上亲授正一之道,立教度人,佐时理化,修行正身,禁罢巫觋淫祀,传扬真道,教治国之君务修道德,忠臣辅佐务在行道,民人内修慈孝、外行敬让。祖天师及嗣师、系师,宗承太上道德之旨,以《老子五千文》为道民奉习的要典,著作《     

崇尚科学拒绝伪科学

伪科学(Pseudoscience)一词出现于1844年。我们今天称之为伪科学的许多东西在历史上与科学曾有着千丝万缕的联系,如占星术之于天文学,炼金术之于化学。但是历史上的占星术和炼金术都不是伪科学,只有在科学值得冒充之后,它们有意识地冒充科学才可算是伪科学。面对社会上的日渐泛滥的伪科学,我们不得不提高警惕,利用科学的方法揭露伪科学的真面目。我们迫在眉睫的任务是提高全民族的科学文化素质,提倡科学精神,拒绝伪科学。     

Puerto Rican Gangs: A Historical Overview

This article presents the problem of gangs on the island of Puerto Rico from a historical, economical, and political perspective. Some Puerto Rican historians are convinced that the gang problem in Puerto Rico is due to the political ambiguity and human rights violations of prison inmates (F. Picò, 1998).     

State faith‐based education in Israel: a messianic‐nationalist model of interpretation

This article analyzes the traces and configuration of three syntagmatic interpretation models in the educational text produced by Israel’s state religious educational system: the modus, the hermetic and the gnostic models, which together add up to a fourth, and unique one: the messianic nationalist model of interpretation. This interpretive model has a concrete configuration which, as opposed to similar but secular educational models, uses transcendental motifs in order to pragmatically organize the explanation of ‘reality’. From this point of view the messianic nationalist model presents a case study in religious education, which integrates between modern (i.e., nationalist) and traditional (religious) motifs in a relatively flexible way, situating itself between a fundamentalist religious idiosyncrasy and a secular one. Theoretically and methodologically the article develops the textual analysis of educational texts. The specific analysis presented here assumes that an educational ideological text interprets, and is interpreted constantly by, its producers and its users as well.     

Religious education in state schools in German‐speaking Switzerland

There are today a variety of patterns in the different cantons of Switzerland for regulating the teaching of RE. The Swiss system is based on a cooperation between Church and state which varies in relation to the history and character of the differing cantons. This allows for diversity in modes of delivering RE. In two cantons there is complete separation between church and state whereas in the majority there is some form of cooperation. State recognized religious communities (normally the Swiss Reformed and Roman Catholic Churches, but in Basel the Old Catholic Church and Jewish community also) are in charge of the RE in schools where it is taught by their representatives visiting the schools. Where state related RE is taught this is done by teachers in the school employed by the state. The presence of Turkish immigrants is raising problems for the teaching of RE in certain areas since Islam has not been traditionally state recognized. However, the inherent diversity of patterns within the 26 cantons allows considerable room for innovation feasible because there is generally an openness between the churches and from the state which facilitates this.     

The Repeated Evaluation Technique (RET). A method to capture dynamic effects of innovativeness and attractiveness

Innovativeness is defined as ‘originality by virtue of introducing new ideas’. Thus, innovative designs often break common visual habits and are evaluated as relatively unattractive at first sight (Leder & Carbon, 2005 ). In most empirical studies, attractiveness is measured only once. These measures do not capture the dynamic aspects of innovation. This paper presents a dynamic procedure, the Repeated Evaluation Technique (RET), that improves the validity of attractiveness evaluations. RET simulates time and exposure effects of everyday life. Using RET, we investigated the appreciation of different car designs varying in innovativeness and curvature. While the mere exposure theory (Zajonc, 1968 ) would predict a general increase of liking in increasing exposure, RET revealed dissociate effects depending on innovativeness. Only innovative designs showed an increase in attractiveness. Low innovative designs were rated as being relatively attractive in the beginning, but did not profit from elaboration due to RET. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

道教斋醮史上的青词

道教的祭祀仪式习称为斋醮,有关斋醮的一系列法事内容称为科仪。青词是斋醮仪式中献给天神的奏告文书,是道教科仪常用的祭祀词文。青词是表达斋主心意的祭祀文书,有用青纸朱书敬献神灵的仪格,其颜色蕴涵着宗教象征意义。道教关于青词的撰写及投送,有青词式、青词关等科法规定,青词是道教神仙信仰的文学化表达,它蕴涵着道教的济度之“道”。     

An artificial intelligent counter

This article, using a counter as an example, explores a novel approach in constructing a cognitive system. The system is a paired memory system of “left and right brain” consisting of a number of memory units. The “left brain” is dedicated to the cognitive process of symbols, and the “right brain” to the representation of the symbols. The left and right subsystems are connected by bundles of internal communication signals. The paired memory system can learn facts and generalize concepts. Its cognitive capability is realized through the communication among these memory units at different cognitive levels within the system. The key claims in this paper are supported by empirical findings and theoretical principles. An AI counter is built and demonstrated in terms of concept learning and responding.