Religion and spirituality: Linkages to physical health.

Evidence is presented that bears on 9 hypotheses about the link between religion or spirituality and mortality, morbidity, disability, or recovery from illness. In healthy participants, there is a strong, consistent, prospective, and often graded reduction in risk of mortality in church/service attenders. This reduction is approximately 25% after adjustment for confounders. Religion or spirituality protects against cardiovascular disease, largely mediated by the healthy lifestyle it encourages. Evidence fails to support a link between depth of religiousness and physical health. In patients, there are consistent failures to support the hypotheses that religion or spirituality slows the progression of cancer or improves recovery from acute illness but some evidence that religion or spirituality impedes recovery from acute illness. The authors conclude that church/service attendance protects healthy people against death. More methodologically sound studies are needed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

宗教意识下的艺术形式

艺术的创造性为人类留下的无数艺术珍品,使人能领略到人性的充实和伟大的智慧,也领略到了人类文明的伟大,增强了人类的尊严与荣耀。每件艺术品都反映和保存各个相关时期的地区、政治、文化、宗教、习俗等内容。受到这些因素的影响,使得艺术形式多种多样丰富多彩。我认为,最有魅力的是在宗教意识下的艺术形式。     

浅析建筑色彩的影响因素

建筑色彩不但具有装饰作用,更具有表达设计师理念、弥补造型缺陷,强化形体等作用,越来越受到建筑设计师的重视。而建筑色彩是经过了漫长的时间才发展成为一门独立的科学,在发展过程中影响建筑色彩的因素有很多种。了解和认识这些影响因素,才能在建筑设计才能更好的利用色彩为建筑加分。     

中国筷箸的文化阐释

我国筷箸历史悠久,与礼仪、婚姻、信仰、艺术等中国传统文化产生了紧密的联系,它不仅集中展现了中国的传统礼仪,在各民族传统婚姻习俗中占有重要地位,而且也是各种信仰活动不可缺少的用具,成为中国传统艺术的重要物质载体。     

闪耀在西方哲学里的神光

在西方,一直存在着一种普遍现象,即:哲学的宗教化和宗教的哲学化。作为人类精神活动的两种形式,哲学与宗教总是相生相随的。作者以历代西方哲学家的理论内涵作为依据,探讨哲学里的神光及其于不同阶段的不同表现和特质,试图说明宗教对西方哲学的深远影响和潜在魅力。     

宗教饮食文化三论

斋,对于佛教、道教、伊斯兰教、基督教等宗教来说都是一种重要的礼仪,所不同的是,它们又都具有各自特定的含义;宗教食物禁忌缘于原始时代,系统宗教几乎无不将食物禁忌当作它们诸多禁制中的主要内容。因此,一些食品在宗教饮食中也就具备了特殊的意义。     

Does devoutness delay death? Psychological investment in religion and its association with longevity in the Terman sample.

Religious people tend to live slightly longer lives (M. E. McCullough, W. T. Hoyt, D. B. Larson, H. G. Koenig, & C. E. Thoresen, 2000). On the basis of the principle of social investment (J. Lodi-Smith & B. W. Roberts, 2007), the authors sought to clarify this phenomenon with a study of religion and longevity that (a) incorporated measures of psychological religious commitment; (b) considered religious change over the life course; and (c) examined 19 measures of personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health that might help to explain the religion–longevity association. Discrete-time survival growth mixture models revealed that women (but not men) with the lowest degrees of religiousness through adulthood had shorter lives than did women who were more religious. Survival differences were largely attributable to cross-sectional and prospective between-class differences in personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Generativity and spiritual disclosure in close relationships.

This exploratory study examines the link between generativity and an interpersonal aspect of religion and spirituality, spiritual disclosure, in close relationships. Three hundred seventy-eight adults aged 18 to 85 years were asked about their use of spiritual disclosure with close friends, views on their own generativity, questions related to personality characteristics, and level of general self-disclosure. This community sample’s reports on higher levels of spiritual disclosure were tied to higher levels of generativity and general self-disclosure. Spiritual disclosure also predicted unique variance in generativity beyond general self-disclosure, personality, and intrapersonal aspects of religion and spirituality. These findings suggest spiritual disclosure in close relationships is an important part of the religious/spiritual landscape, which merits further study in relation to generativity and other prosocial indices. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

luther's thesenportal: a case study of a “ritual-architectural event”

ABSTRACT

This article is part of a larger field-based study of contemporary festivity and religious tourism in Lutherland, a geographic and symbolic place associated with the life and work of Martin Luther. My aim, with reference to the work of Lindsay Jones and Victor Turner, is to develop an approach for studying the intersection of material culture and ritual. Material culture does not simply signify into empty space, shining meanings into its surrounding environment as a street lamp does light. Rather, material culture is produced, handled, used in a variety of ways. An exemplary case for studying how built space and ritual performance intersect is the Thesenportal of Wittenberg's Schlosskirche, an object and performative space commemorating the origin of the German Reformation.     

泉州南安桃源宫陀罗尼经幢的建筑特征及其宗教作用

回顾我国石经幢的起源,进而探究南安桃源宫陀罗尼经幢的建筑特征以及雕刻艺术的文化内涵,并把它与泉州及江南和中原地区的石经幢进行对比,探索其建筑样式演变的历程,分析其宗教作用。