新疆地区穆斯林社会心理的实证分析报告

新疆是穆斯林人口较多的边疆地区,研究和分析这个区域穆斯林的社会心理问题,对包括新疆在内的穆斯林居住区的宗教工作有着重要的理论和现实意义。问卷调查结果显示,目前,新疆地区穆斯林的宗教心理具有明显的索求性特征,宗教行为动机在向世俗化、非宗教方面变化。信奉伊斯兰教,既是他们宗教归属的需要,也是他们民族归属的需要。在伊斯兰教和现实问题之间,他们更关注和重视现实问题。怎样在非宗教的基础上满足公民全面发展的需求,使他们不必为了寻求安慰而去求助于宗教的方法和手段,应该成为当前新疆宗教工作认真思考并加以解决的问题。     

Anxiety Sensitivity Differentially Predicts Factors of Interpersonal–Psychological Suicide Risk: A Consideration of Specificity

Recent studies have identified anxiety sensitivity (AS) as a risk factor for suicidality; however, limited work has been performed to understand this risk within the context of the interpersonal–psychological theory of suicide (IPTS; Joiner, 2005). The current study examined the relationship between overall AS, each AS subfactor (cognitive, social, and physical), and the three IPTS domains (perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and acquired capability). While each AS subfactor uniquely predicted one IPTS domain, greater overall AS only predicted greater acquired capability, suggesting that assessment of AS at the subfactor level may offer us more information about an individual's interpersonal suicide risk.     

Tradition and Experimentation: the Development of the Samatha Trust

ABSTRACT

Theravāda Buddhism has travelled. This article gives some history of the practice of samatha breathing mindfulness, in the Theravāda tradition, in the UK. It first gives some background in Britain to the arrival of the meditation in the 1960s, then summarises the life of Nai Boonman Poonyathiro, who introduced this method into the UK, a story that is not generally known. The paper describes some aspects of the development of the Samatha Trust in the UK, attempting to show ways a system that was popular in Thailand when it arrived in a new region has prospered, even while becoming markedly less prominent in its own regions. As I am a practitioner in this tradition, before the conclusion I make some personal comment. To conclude, I speculate about features which appear to characterise Buddhist groups in general in the UK, before considering ways that this specialised tradition has adapted in a new setting.