3. Cracks in the Wall of Separation?: The Church, Civil Society, and the State in the Philippines

2004 ◽  
pp. 54-77 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
The Church

Politische Kultur und Rechtsbewußtsein in Ostdeutschland-Folgen der Diktatur

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-187
Author(s):  
Ehrhart Neubert
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
East Germany ◽  
The State ◽  
State Law ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
Politische Kultur ◽  
State Grants ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
The Church

Abstract The author examines the consequences of dictatorship upon the conciousness of law and justice in the postsocialist society of East-Germany. This society and even the Church are characterized by a moralizing thinking of justice- according to the German tradition of paternalistic state: the state grants justice and represents community. Ever after theseGermans regard themselves as inferiors, who want to get adjusted into a disciplined order. This leeds to disappointments and radical criticism of the democratic constitutional state. Law is not able to realize ultimatejustice. For the aceptance ofthe constitutional state it will be necessary to restore civil society and overcome a fundamentalistic criticism of civilisation.

scholarly journals Africa and the Covid-19 Information Framing Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Ogola
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Framing ◽  
The Church ◽  
Health Messaging

Africa faces a double Covid-19 crisis. At once it is a crisis of the pandemic, at another an information framing crisis. This article argues that public health messaging about the pandemic is complicated by a competing mix of framings by a number of actors including the state, the Church, civil society and the public, all fighting for legitimacy. The article explores some of these divergences in the interpretation of the disease and how they have given rise to multiple narratives about the pandemic, particularly online. It concludes that while different perspectives and or interpretations of a crisis is not necessarily wrong, where these detract from the crisis itself and become a contestation of individual and or sector interests, they birth a new crisis. This is the new crisis facing the continent in relation to the pandemic.

Digitization in the Evangelical Church(es) in Germany: Exemplary Insights

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Ilona Nord ◽  
Katharina Alt ◽  
Thomas Zeilinger
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The State ◽  
Preliminary Assessment ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
The Church

This article presents exemplary insights into the state of digitization and the corresponding efforts of selected Evangelical Churches in Germany (the federal ekd and three of its member churches) to address an array of challenges triggered by the digital transformation. Three short reports on broader studies demonstrate how the church is responding to these challenges as an actor within civil society, as well as an organization and a community of faith. This preliminary assessment suggests that the ekd is capable of both: taking part in the societal debate as well as designing and reinventing itself anew in the digital realm. Nevertheless, it will do well to figure out more context-sensitive solutions while stimulating both ethical and theological discussions.

Idolatry and Apostasy in the 1633 Jesuit Annual Letter

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Jesuit Order ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Christian Beliefs

In this excerpt from the annual letter reporting on the state of the Jesuit order in the Philippines, Fr. Juan de Bueras, the Jesuit provincial, relates the difficulties that the Church was experiencing among the indigenous communities of the island of Mindoro. Hoping to convert the Magayanes people of the mountains to Christianity, the Jesuits found that they had to redirect their efforts to the supposedly Catholic communities of the coast, which had reverted to pre-Christian beliefs and practices. Bueras’s letter provides insight into the limitations of the Church’s effort to convert native Filipinos, and the nature of Filipino religious life in the early colonial context. John Blanco places the letter in the broader context of religious and secular colonialism, and broader questions about the supposed Hispanization of the Philippines.

scholarly journals VICISSITUDES IN THE ENTENTE BETWEEN THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH AND THE STATE IN EGYPT (1952–2007)

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 287a-287a
Author(s):  
Mariz Tadros
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The State ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Coptic Orthodox Church ◽  
Coptic Orthodox ◽  
Coptic Church ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This paper asserts that in 1952 an entente was forged between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Egyptian government that provided the church with concessions in return for its political allegiance to the regime. The period prior to 1952 also witnessed the Coptic church leadership forging alliances with regimes in power; however, its ability to represent Copts vis-à-vis the state was rivaled by other Coptic voices in civil society such as the Majlis al-Milli. From 1952 on, the inhibition of Copts' voices in civil society increased the church's political power, and it developed into the undisputed voice representing the Coptic community. The relationship between church and state in the past fifty years has been volatile, affected not only by the nature of the relationship between leaders of the church and state but also by the emergence of other important players within and outside these two entities. Strains characteristic of the period leading up to the temporary dissolution of the entente in the 1970s are becoming visible today in the church–state relationship. This paper suggests that the current entente between the church and the state is being stretched to its limit although it is not likely to be dissolved.

scholarly journals On the Path to Forced Sobriety: The Church Spearheading the Temperance Movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Lal Lawmzuali
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The relationship held with liquor varies from person to person; a dear friend to those habituated to drinking however, a foe to those that lost a husband, a mother, a daughter and a son to liquor addiction, be it through consumption orharm induced by another consumer(s). The case of the Mizo Christians presents a unique construct on the making of a good Christian thoroughly rooted by the British Missionaries. One necessary pre-condition to the making of a good Christian was abstention from their beloved zu implying the renunciation to the ‘thing’ that held a tread that connected them to their cultural past. Thus, making abstention the symbol of the indigenized Christian and the culture left behind. The passing of years had only increased the Church’s aversion to the drink. Government policy enforced in 1973 had caused for such varieties to be introduced in the state. Prior to the introduction of the Mizoram Excise Act, 1973, civil society had done much to curb the proliferation of country liquor. The Mizoram Presbyterian Church in particular had lobbied for ‘total prohibition’ since 1991 which resulted in the enforcement of their objective, leading the reluctant Government to implement ‘forced sobriety’ in the state.

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