杰里·H．本特利教授学术报告纪要

2004年10月19日,美国夏威夷大学教授、《世界历史杂志》主编、美国世界史协会会长 杰里·H.本特利(Jerry H.Bentley)在中国社会科学院世界历史研究所作了题为"世界历史 的昨天、今天和明天"的学术报告。本特利教授以宏观的理论视野,勾勒出在漫长的时间跨 度中世界历史研究的发展脉络及其研究范式的转变。 本特利教授认为,世界历史在最早的历史著作中即已出现。在古代世界,西方与东方的 历史学家在立足本民族历史研究的同时,开始将眼光投向更为广阔的外部世界,注重不同民 族与地区之间的联系。中世纪的编年史家则常常以《圣经》中的创世说和不同民族的起源作     

The Historian and the Church

DEREK BEALES AND GEOFFREY BEST, eds. History, Society and the Churches: Essays in Honour of Owen Chadwick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 335. $49.50 (US).     

THTEE-RIVER PROJEC:A Boon for Ecological Environment

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The Religious Crisis of the 1960s: The Experience of the Australian Churches

The decade of the 1960s in North America and Europe is generally seen by historians and sociologists as a time of sudden and unexpected religious upheaval. But was this the case in Australia? This article examines the changes in belief and behaviour within Australia’s major churches during the ‘remembered sixties’ from c. 1964 to c. 1972, in relation to the cultural and social context, and the extent to which these amounted to a religious turnaround or crisis. Areas examined include the impact of radical theology, symbolized by the book Honest to God, and the ‘new morality’; the changes in Australian Catholicism initiated by the Second Vatican Council; the debate among Catholics over birth control and the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae; the decline in weekly church attendance, Sunday school enrolments and the membership of church youth organizations; the ‘crisis’ in the ordained ministry; changing attitudes in the churches towards social issues; and the responses of the churches to the Vietnam War. The religious unsettlement that occurred in Australia during this period was very similar to North America and Europe, though there were distinctive local emphases. The central issues in debate were common to all major denominations: the relevance and authority of traditional institutions and formulations of belief.     

包拉温都——美丽迷人的杏树林

<正>包拉温都,蒙语的意思是"紫色的山岗",位于吉林省白城市通榆县境内。杏树林就在距县城西南90公里的地方,与内蒙古自治区接壤的包拉温都乡境内。     

The Task of the Historian

Book reviewed in this article:
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, The past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography     

中国生态环境与可持续发展研究

中国正面临着生态破坏与环境污染的双重挑战,承受的生存与发展的压力也日益严峻。而由于受自身能力和条件的制约,决定了中国解决生态环境问题的复杂性、艰巨性和长期性。因此,在中国要使经济得以可持续发展,应该实行保护生态环境和治理环境污染的一揽子政策。     

The Experience of Time as Crisis: On Croce's and Benjamin's Concept of History

In the early decades of the twentieth century the experience of time as crisis became the catalyst for a fundamental reorientation in the relationship between historical materialism and idealism, leading to the rejection of simplistic mechanical concepts of historical time. This reorientation represents a turning point in the history of European ideas, clearly evident in the work of two major thinkers of this period, usually associated with opposing political ideologies: the Marxist theorist Walter Benjamin and the liberal philosopher Benedetto Croce. Based on a conceptual framework borrowed partly from Reinhart Koselleck, this article explains how the experience of acute crisis led both thinkers to develop a new understanding of historical time, which shows surprising parallels. Both authors used the reorientation in the relationship between idealism and materialism to criticize positivist approaches to the analysis of historical change and to reject deterministic accounts of the future.