美国中西部华人基督教会调查——以科罗拉多州丹佛都会区为例

论文以美国科罗拉多州丹佛都会区的几家华人基督教会为样本,分析了丹佛华人基督教会的历史与现状,教会的人员构成、参加教会活动的原因、教会运作模式及社会功能,反映了科州乃至美国中西部地区华人基督教会的基本情况。研究结果显示,以丹佛为代表的科罗拉多州华人基督教会历史不长,规模普遍较小,组织结构较为简单。教会信众来源广泛,目前以中国大陆为主体,涵盖了两岸三地及东亚、东南亚等地华人。华人基督徒多从事医学、网络信息、矿业、会计和厨师等专业技术工作。尽管参加教会活动的华人出于各种不同的目的,教会发展过程中也遇到了诸多问题,但作为丹佛华人社会的重要组成部分,华人基督教会仍是一个功能强大的社会组织,在团结华人,救助华人弱势群体,特别是在提供精神支持方面,具有无可替代的作用。     

论拉美结构主义兴起的历史根源

拉美结构主义发展理论产生于20世纪中叶,对拉美和整个第三世界的现代化进程产生了很大的影响。阿根廷经济学家劳尔.普雷维什在这种理论形成的过程中发挥了关键作用。本文①从三个方面论述拉美结构主义产生的历史根源:第一,拉美结构主义是阿根廷历史文化传统的一种延续,洛佩斯-佩列格里尼学派的影响尤为显著;第二,这种理论的兴起与20世纪前期盛行于拉美的经济民族主义思潮密切相关;第三,拉美结构主义是普雷维什个人职业经历与当时的客观历史条件相结合的产物。     

Early Domestic Dogs in North America and Their Origins

Abstract

Archaeologists have contributed much new information relating to types of domestic dogs that were present in pre-Columbian North America. Questions yet to be answered are: Where did the basal stock for these early Western Hemisphere dogs originate? What were they like morphologically? Some reported early canids, particularly those from late Pleistocene deposits, are subject to question as to their domestic role. These and related problems are discussed.     

美国华人教会的社会功能初探

近年来,美国华人基督教教会组织发展迅速,其在帮助华人新移民群体,整合华人社会资源等方面的作用已经超越了传统华人社团。本文依据实地考察并结合文献研究,探索美国华人教会组织的多方面社会功能。作者认为,华人教会在华人社会中的作用及其影响值得关注。     

From Babylon to Christianity: William Foxwell Albright on Myth,Folklore, and Christian Origins

The American Orientalist William F. Albright (1891–1971) is remembered as a leading voice of twentieth‐century “biblical archaeology,” a field that aimed to demonstrate empirically the Hebrew Bible's substantial historicity. Less well known is Albright's research on Christian backgrounds, which by contrast reflected modernist theology's scepticism about the gospel narratives' literal truth. Drawing ideas from the “Pan‐Babylonian” school of biblical criticism, Albright invoked the influence of ancient Near Eastern myth and folklore on the Christ story, this being the culminating theme of his magnum opus From the Stone Age to Christianity (1940). Originally Albright believed that this mythological interpretation would reestablish Christianity's intellectual credibility in the twentieth century and thus help revive New Testament theology. Yet in the latter part of his career he omitted the mythological thesis from his writings, apparently having concluded that it was harmful to orthodox Christian faith.     

The Ambiguities of Christian Sexual Discourse in Post‐War Britain: The British Council of Churches and Its Early Moral Welfare Work

This article extends and develops recent historical discussion on the relationship between British Christianity, sexuality, and modernity, proposing some ways forward for future scholarship. Recent accounts have concentrated on liberal Anglican positions on issues of sexuality, but here the focus is on the British Council of Churches, its early moral welfare work, and interdenominational efforts to reconsider Christian sex teaching in the immediate post‐war years. While examining broader trends towards positive statements about sex and attempts to assemble self‐regulating sexual citizens in Christian moral welfare thinking, the article suggests that, far from a narrative of relatively untroubled and gradual acceptance of progressive Christian views on sex, this was a halting and uncertain process. The article reflects closely on the complexities of post‐war Christian attempts to work with new ideas about sexuality and to formulate their own version of them, the difficulties and ambiguities involved in developing a cogent position in a debate where Christian opinion was so fiercely divided, as well as the complicated nature of institutional decision‐making. As a case study, the British Council of Churches reflects earlier, problematic attempts to alter Christian sex teaching, as well as the unfolding of later difficulties for the British churches.     

民间资源保护队的缘起和历史地位

民间资源保护队是罗斯福新政期间从事资源保护工作的重要“组织”。它的成立是由一种保护自然资源的愿望和为城市失业青年提供有报酬的工作的需要所决定的;同时它也是罗斯福具有进步主义内涵和特征的社会改革和资源保护思想与实践发展的逻辑结果。民间资源保护队在美国现代历史上占有非常重要的地位,它不仅一定程度上缓解了美国当时所面临的“环境”危机和社会危机,而且扩展了资源保护运动的范围和群众基础,为战后美国的环境运动埋下了伏笔。