农村基督徒的宗教皈依历程——以甘肃W镇天主教为例

以甘肃W镇天主教为例,采用问卷调查和深度访谈两种方法,对农村基督徒宗教皈依的历程做了简要分析,主要内容包括宗教皈依的社会根源、动机、途径以及皈依效果的强化等方面。     

探寻天主教在西北农村发展的历史轨迹——以甘肃中东部农村一乡镇为个案

近年来,天主教在我国西北农村地区发展十分迅速,天主教进入这些地区已经有很长的历史了,在传播过程中,经历了文化、价值、认同的冲突和妥协,也有传播过程中寻求本土化契合性的探索。W镇是天主教在西北农村发展的典型案例。天主教在W镇经过了一百多年的发展,已成为当地教区重要的农村教会。     

The Protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: Evidence from religious minorities in the former Holy Roman Empire

We investigate the effect of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the decision to become an entrepreneur in former Holy Roman Empire regions. Our research design exploits religious minorities' strong attachment to religious ethic and the predetermined historical determination of religious minorities' geographical distribution in the 1500s as a result of the “cuius regio eius religio” (whose realm, his religion) rule. We find that today Protestantism increases the probability to be an entrepreneur by around 5 percentage points with respect to Catholicism, a result that survives to a battery of robustness checks. We explicit the assumptions underlying the identification strategy and provide an extensive testing of their validity by making use of several European datasets.     

Public investment programmes in the interwar period: the view from Geneva *

Abstract

Social Catholicism opposed individualistic conceptions of society in favour of an order of associative institutions fostering a communality of interests between those involved in production processes. As a consequence, guilds were idealised and their model transposed in different ways to the industrial society of the nineteenth century. This paper discusses the different streams of Social Catholicism and the theoretical roots of corporatism in natural law. It will discuss how the idea of a ‘corporative order’ is more grounded in German corporative law than in Neo-Thomism.