第13届中美欧暑期宗教学高级研讨班 招生简章

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第13届中美欧暑期宗教学高级研讨班将于2016年7月8日至12日在中国人民大学举办。本届暑期班的主题是“宗教与公共生活”。

一、主讲教授简介

    柯文·斯密特，加尔文学院荣休教授，科学研究宗教学会主席

    Corwin E. Smidt，Professor Emeritus of Calvin College,

    President of Society for the Social Scientific Studies of Religion

二、教学

    本班采用“教授讲课、学者讲座、学员讨论与论文辅导”相结合的学习方法。上午为外籍教授讲课，授课语言为英文。下午为国内学者讲座，内容为宗教研究的基本方法与最新成果。暑期班持续5天，共40学时。

7月13-14日，“第13届宗教社会科学年会”将在人民大学召开，欢迎学员参加（参见附录“征文函”）。

三、学员

    本班主要招收宗教学、政治学和社会学相关专业的学生，也欢迎青年学者报名。本期研讨班拟录取学员30名。

四、结业与奖励

    本班将依据学员的出勤、课堂参与及研究报告等情况，综合评定，颁发结业证书。

本班将推荐优秀学员到海外深造、攻读中国人民大学相关专业研究生。

五、费用

   本班免收学费。交通费和食宿费自理。本班可协助联系校内住宿。

六、报名

    申请者须填写报名表，学生请老师推荐，在职人员请单位负责人推荐。报名表请以电子版寄至：zjshkx@ruc.edu.cn，牙伟鹏。

    报名截至时间：2016年6月1日。

    报名表可在网上自行复制，网址是：http://zjshkx.ruc.edu.cn

 七、录取

     本班将根据报名者基础、报名顺序等情况录取学员，“录取通知书”将于2016年6月10日前以电子邮件发出。

八、报到

   请于7月7日持“录取通知书”到中国人民大学报到，地址是北京中关村大街59号。具体教室将在录取通知书中说明。

九、联系方式

    联系人：牙伟鹏    电话：18911165341

    邮箱：zjshkx@ruc.edu.cn

欢迎您就有关情况随时与我们联系。

中国人民大学国际佛学研究中心、佛教与宗教学理论研究所

哲学院、宗教高等研究院

2016年3月4日

第13届中美欧暑期宗教学高级研讨班

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主讲教师及教学大纲

一、 教授简介

    斯密特教授为宗教政治学研究的著名学者，在爱荷华大学政治学系获得博士学位，曾任著名政教关系研究所保罗·亨利研究所（Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics）所长。在牛津大学出版社、乔治城大学出版社、Rowman & Littlefield、Baker Books等著名出版社出版与主编专著17部；在Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion， Sociology of Religion， American Journal of Political Science， Journal of Political Science Politics and Religion， Review of Religious Research, The Review of Faith and International Affairs等核心期刊发表论文近百篇；担任American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Journal of Church and State;  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion等20几个核心期刊的编委。研究主题包括：社会资本与宗教慈善，宗教与公共参与，宗教与总统选举，美国福音派的变迁与政治动员。

二、 课程目标

    帮助学者了解美国政教关系与宗教景观的基本状况；

    帮助学者了解政教关系研究的基本方法与理论；

    帮助学者了解宗教对社会参与和公共参与的影响；

    帮助学者了解宗教在美国选举中的影响与变迁。

三、课程大纲与阅读材料：

Day #1

Session #1    Introduction: History of the Study of Religion and Public Life 

            Theoretical Perspectives

          导论：宗教与公共生活的学术史和理论视角

Readings:

——Nancy Ammerman, Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), Introduction,pp. 3-18.

——Corwin E. Smidt, et al.Pews, Prayers, and Participation (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008), Introduction, pp. 1-18 (primarily pp. 5-11).

——Ronald Thiemann，Religion in Public Life. Washington, D.C.:Georgetown University Press, 1996), the section “Redefining the Public” found in Ch. 7, “Beyond the Wall of Separation,” pp.151-154.

Session #2    Methodological Issues: Measurement, Validity, Methodology

   方法论议题：测量、有效性与方法

Readings:

——Kenneth Wald and Corwin Smidt, “Measurement Strategies in the Study of Religion and Politics,” Pp. 26-49 in David Leege and Lyman Kellstedt, eds., Rediscovering the Religious Factor in American Politics (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993).

——Grace Davie, “Vicarious Religion: A Methodological Challenge.”  Pp. 21-35 in Nancy Ammerman, Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Day #2

Session #3    Separation of Church and State vs. Religion and Politics Faith-based

           initiative) 政教分离vs. 政治与宗教

Readings:

——Derek Davis, “Church and State.” Pp. 42-56 in Philip Goff, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell. 2010).

——Nancy Ammerman, “Building Religious Communities, Building the Common Good: A Skeptical Appreciation.” Pp. 48-68 in Paul Lichterman and C. Brady Potts. The Civic Life of American Religion (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009).

——Mark Chaves, “Congregations’ Significance to American Civic Life.” Pp. 69-81 in Paul Lichterman and C. Brady Potts. The Civic Life of American Religion (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2009).

——Corwin E. Smidt.  2009. “The Social Service Activities of Religious Congregations in America,” Review of Faith & International AffairsVol 7 (3): 47-54.

Session #4    Secularism and American Religious Life        

          世俗主义与美国人的宗教生活

Readings:

——Grace Davie, The Sociology of Religion (Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications, 2007), Ch. 3 “Secularization: Process and Theory,”  pp. 46-66.

——Jose Casanova, “Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective,” The Hedgehog Review 8 (2006), pp. 7-22.

Day #3

Session #5    Religion, Social Capital, and Civic Life

          宗教、社会资本与公民生活

Readings:

——Corwin E. Smidt, ed., Religion as Social Capital: Producing the Common Good (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2003), “Introduction,” pp. 1-18.

——Corwin E. Smidt, et.al. Pews, Prayers & Participation (Washington, D.C.:

Georgetown University Press, 2008), “Introduction: Religion and Civic Responsibility,” pp. 1-18.

——Corwin E. Smidt, et.al. Pews, Prayers & Participation (Washington, D.C.:

Georgetown University Press, 2008), Ch. 4 “Religion, Volunteering, and Philanthropic Giving,” pp. 98-133.

Session #6    Religion and Engagement in Public Life

   宗教与公共参与

Readings:

——Elshtain, Jean Bethke, “Religion and American Democracy.”  Pp. 16-26 in EdithBlumhofer, ed., Religion, Politics, and the American Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life(Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2002

——Robert Putnam and David Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.  (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010). “Religion and Good Neighborliness,” pp. 443-492.

——Corwin E. Smidt, “Religion, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation,” Pp. 173-208 in Charles Dunn, ed., The Future of Religion in American Politics (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press,2009).

Day #4

Session #7    The Changing Role of Religion in American Presidential Elections

   宗教在美国总统选举的角色变迁

Readings:

——Lyman Kellstedt, John Green, Corwin E. Smidt, and James Guth, Faith Transformed: Religion and American Politics from FDR to G. W. Bush.” Pp. 270–295 in Mark Noll and Luke Harlow, eds., Religion and American Politics, 2nded. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

——Corwin E. Smidt, American Evangelicals Today (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), Ch. 7 “We’re Marching to Zion? The Politics of Evangelicals,” pp. 183-212.

Session #8    Religion, The Christian Right, and American Politics

   宗教、基督教右翼与美国政治

Readings:

——James Guth, Lyman Kellstedt, John Green, and Corwin E. Smidt,“Thunder on the Right? Religious Interest Group Mobilization in the 1996 Election.” Pp. 169–192 in Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds., Interest Group Politics, 5th ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1998).

——Clyde Wilcox and Carin Robinson,Onward Christian Soldiers?: The Religious Right in American Politics, 4^th edition (Bolder, CO: Westview Press, 2011), Ch. 5,”The Future of the Christian Right”pp. 177-206.

——Michel Hout and Claude Fischer. 2002. “Why Americans Have No Religious Preference.” American Sociological Review 67 (April): 165–190.

Day #5

Session #9    Integrative or Divisive: Religion in American Society and Politics

   整合还是分离：美国社会与政治中的宗教

Readings:

——Andrew Kohut, John C. Green, Scott Teeter, and Robert Roth, The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics, (Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2000), Ch. 6 “Politics in Churches and Churches in Politics, pp. 96-121.

——Ira Chernus, “Civil Religion.” Pp. 57-70 in Philip Goff, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell. 2010).

Session #10  Religion and Democratic Life: A Cross-National Comparison

   宗教与民主生活：一个跨国比较研究

Readings:

——James Reichley, Faith in Politics (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002), Ch. 8 “Religion and Democracy,” pp. 351-366.

——Corwin E. Smidt. 2013. “Do The Beneficial Effects of Religion for Democracy Still Hold?, The Review of Faith & International Affairs 11(3): 20-38.

——Ira Katznelson, “Reflections on Religion, Democracy, and the Politics of Good and Evil,” in Alan Wolfe and Ira Katznelson, eds. Religion and Democracy in the United States: Danger or Opportunity?     (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. 411-430.