Happiness,religion and economic transition

In an important paper, Lelkes (2006) examines the impact of transition on happiness in Hungary using two Hungarian household survey datasets for the years 1992 and 1998. In particular, Lelkes examines the impact of religious behaviour on self‐reported well‐being. Using ordered logit models, Lelkes estimates and presents the marginal effect associated with membership in the highest ‘fully satisfied’ category, and finds that religious people have a consistently higher probability of being ‘fully satisfied’ than others. This effect is stable in the 1992 and 1998 samples. The goal of this article is to expand and extend Lelkes' earlier work in several ways. First, we use a different dataset. Second, we examine the effect of religious behaviour on well‐being after transition not only for Hungary, but also for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Third, unlike Lelkes, we have access to information indicating whether respondents report being financially better off after transition. With a different dataset, additional country samples, and a measure of financial well‐being, we are able to confirm and extend Lelkes' finding that religious behaviour is associated with improved well‐being after transition in all countries we examine.     

社会心理学视域下社会潜意识与宗教信仰的二维探究

社会心理学语境下的潜意识，决定着社会人进行思考和行动的形式和方向，同时也形成一个社会的观念和思想。宗教信仰作为人类历史上普遍和古老的文化现象，其之所以能够长期存在和延续发展，社会潜意识起到了关键作用。社会潜意识的普遍存在是宗教社会作用实践的重要社会心理基础，而信仰主体也应成为社会前进的精神基础和动力。     

古希腊宗教的特点及其对希腊文化的影响

古希腊宗教具有鲜明的特点，对希腊文化的发展产生了深刻的影响。古希腊是泛神论的国土，信仰的多样性使文化能够较自由发展；古希腊宗教感性主义的特点，形成了积极的民族精神，成为希腊文化繁荣发展的精神动力；古希腊宗教“神人同形同性”的特点，不仅使它成为希腊文化发展的重要源泉，而且使希腊的艺术家们走上了以表现人为中心的现实主义道路。只有了解古希腊宗教的特点，才能真正地体会希腊文化底蕴。     

A Genealogy of Business Ethics: A Nietzschean Perspective

This article approaches the field of business ethics from a Nietzschean vantage point, which means explaining the weakness of the field by means of providing an etiological account of the values esteemed by the decadent business ethicists therein. I argue that such business ethicists have wandered from their immanent philosophical ground to act as scientists, businesspersons, and preaching-moralists as a way of evading their human self-contradictions. In actuality, this fleeing exacerbates them into a sickness of self-idolatry and self-loathing. I bring in Nietzsche’s approach to the value of truth and his ascetic priest figure to get to the origin of this problem. Moreover, I attend throughout to delimiting the field of business ethics as that branch of ethics that can be taught in business schools. Indeed, the article itself is a movement in this direction, being inherently and intentionally philosophical.     

The impacts of religion,political ideology,and social capital on religious and secular giving: evidence from the 2006 Social Capital Community Survey

Using a double hurdle model and data from the 2006 Social Capital Community Survey (SCCS2006) we examine religious and secular giving, focusing on the impacts of religion, political ideology and social capital. Our main results indicate that greater participation in religious activities positively impacts religious and secular giving, the intensity of religious belief increases religious giving at the expense of secular giving, religious giving by very conservative individuals is higher than for other ideological groups, and measures of social capital are very important in raising the level and likelihood of philanthropic giving.     

论宗教艺术的限定之美

宗教是人们为了摆脱某种现实或处境而自行设想出一种理想世界的结果。宗教艺术就是人们舍弃物质和精神而追求理想的体现。它是实现自由的一种途径，而不是实现自由的目的。宗教艺术由于带有宗教属性，往往强调高度的技巧，其思想内容则被神灵所赋予，而且它否定了人自身的价值，把人的能动性降到最低。另一方面，作为一种艺术，它又带有自由的寄托。所以宗教艺术带有一种限定之美。     

宗教经济学:四大领域与两大论题

自亚当·斯密和马克斯.韦伯以来,经过众多学者的共同努力,宗教经济学日益成长为一门独立的学科。该学科至少包含着四大研究领域:一是宗教与经济的互动,二是教团经济问题,三是宗教的经济观,四是对宗教的经济学分析。四大领域又可归结为两大主题:一是"宗教经济互动论",它主要来自前三大领域;二是"宗教市场论",这是第四大领域的基本内容。从当代中国的宗教境遇和社会需要来说,宗教经济学研究既是机遇,更是责任。     

Fiscal and Monetary Problems in Developing States: Proceedings of the Third Rehovoth Conference

This study considers social capital and religious adherence as determinants of child poverty in the United States and finds that both social capital and religious adherence play a role in U.S. child poverty at the county level. The study also disaggregates the total religious adherence variable into Mainline Protestants, Evangelical Protestants, and Catholics and finds that the effects of these denominations on child poverty are mixed. The model is tested for spatial dependence bias and the test results show that without spatial correction, the OLS results may be biased and inefficient.