广东基督教文化与岭南文化之整合研究

文化整合是文化冲突与融合交错的过程.鸦片战争之后,基督教在广东获得了较大的发展.但作为一种外来宗教文化,它与岭南文化的冲突在所难免,教案正是这种冲突的直接表现.由于广东不同民族、不同民系地域文化的差异,这些地区教案的规模和激烈程度不一.在文化冲突过程中,教会也进行了一系列本土化实践工作,同时广东各民系地区文化也深深烙上了基督教的印记.1920年之后,基督教与岭南文化的整合基本得以完成.     

从《苔丝》看哈代的创作思想

通过小说《苔丝》文本分析了哈代创作思想的复杂性:他当过狂热的宗教信徒,但对基督教的信仰、怀疑和反叛是交织在一起的;他接受达尔文主义的进化论思想,但又受到叔本华悲观哲学的影响,对人生见解悲观宿命;他怀念农村宗法制田园生活,但又肯定和赞美自由资产阶级文明进步的一面。     

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGIES AND THEIR RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

Contemporary Protestant Christians hold differing views of the future that affect their attitudes toward the environment. Dispensationalism tends to use ecological deterioration as a gauge to predict Christ's return and the end of the present age. Postmillennialism teaches that the natural and human world will improve up to Christ's return and puts responsibility on Christians for that improvement. Amillennialism and Historic Premillennialism teach that the possibility of ecological and social improvement is limited in the present age though Christians are to attempt to heal the earth's wounds to show evidence of a future renewed earth.     

本土化与全球化在村落演化中的响应——深圳老福音村的死与生

福音村是指基督教传入后在中国乡村地区出现的一种过半村民为基督徒的特殊聚落。深圳的老福音村具有百年基督教会发展史,它们和珠江三角洲其他农村一样,在改革开放后被推进了全球化的浪潮,经历了快速的工业化、城镇化和现代化,生产方式、聚落景观和村民的生活观念等都发生了很大变化。伴随着这些变化,在老福音村中,基督教对本地村民的影响已日渐式微,但在不断进入村内的外来人员中却出现"枯木逢春"的繁荣景象。在本土化与全球化的相互作用中,福音村落发生了诸多变化。研究以深圳市三祝里福音村为个案,通过分析20世纪初以来该村落基督教的动态发展过程,关注全球化在福音村基督教的兴衰浮沉中所扮演的角色,尝试从文化地理学角度剖析全球化背景下福音村如何"老死",又如何获得"重生"的进程,以寻求本土化与全球化在村落演化中的响应。研究的开展是对国内相对薄弱之宗教地理和乡村地理之研究的有益补充和拓展。同时,也对当前形势下我国乡村生活方式的调适和和谐社会组织形式的构建,以及对全球化背景下中国居民开展自由、健康的宗教信仰活动产生积极意义。     

Neither friends nor foes: Thoughts on ethnographic distance

As a critical ethnographer of proselytizing missions led by conservative Korean/American evangelicals, I discuss the difficulties arising from conducting research in a hostile group setting, negotiating the dynamics of empathetic proximity and critical distance.     

Encountering God: personal reflections on 'geographer as pilgrim'

The geography of religion can be explored from a number of different perspectives. This paper takes an autobiographical approach to explore the numinous experience of God from the point of view of a practising Christian geographer. Such geographical aspects of faith experience remain an under-researched area. The context for the exploration is an academic conference in the city of Bologna, which became, in turn, an experience of religious tourism, a pilgrimage and an unexpected encounter with God. It is contextualized in terms of debates on identity, the nature of pilgrimage, memorials of death, and time–space continuums and fractures.