第十五期 2026.03

Glossolalia and Church Identity: The Role of Sound in the Making of a Chinese Pentecostal-Charismatic Church

When the relationship of music and religion is mentioned, we tend to understand the former as a harmonious or “humanly patterned sound” that usually accompanies the latter on occasions such as Sunday service, Christmas mass, weddings, funerals, and all types of festival celebrations.

宗教的分類

我們天生就有分類的本能,分類是一種簡化世界的方式,讓我們面對環境事態可以快速反應,進行決策。在古早的時代,這麼做可以提高生存率。當先民在野外求生時,每有風吹草動就須當機立斷,判斷那是可以補殺的獵物還是帶來威脅的猛獸。

何謂他者

「他者」(the Other/the other)是宗教學中常見的詞彙,這語詞是如此常見,幾乎成為一種默會之知。然而,緣於宗教學本身的跨學科性質,當論及「他者」時,其實言者與聽者未必共享確切的概念內涵,也因為這種含混性...