scholarly journals The Creation of the Albanian State and its Relationship with Religious Communities: The Sanctioning of Religious Plurality as a Condition of National Unity

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Erjon Papagjoni
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The People ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
The Masses

Abstract The Albanian state sanctioned after the Lushnja Congress in 1920 applied a liberal and wise policy to religious communities, aiming to create ethnic, social and national cohesion among the people through the recognition of the plurality of religious beliefs, their mutual respect, of correct relations with the state and the strengthening of national unity, according to the advanced conventions of modern European states. The new Albanian state committed itself to recognizing all the rights of religious communities in Albania so that they would normally practice their religious activity with all rituals and prayers according to their faith, dogmas, and sacred canons, enhancing spiritual influence in people. To provide legal support to four main religious communities - Muslim, Bektashi, Orthodox, and Catholic - the state sought the design and approval of the correspondent statutes of each religious community. The new political situation required that the new statutes include the need for the independence of religious communities from the type of their former legal structures and reports that they had under the Ottoman Empire. On the other hand, the Albanian state openly proclaimed its secular character in relation to religions. In the statutes of the four main religious communities, with their peculiarities, were included the rights and obligations to believers, the way of organizing hierarchy and clerical forums, the correct legal relations with the state, which ensured and guaranteed their normal functioning, education religious programs, schools at their various ranks, staff and administration, their wealth, their administration and publications, in order to realize the spiritual impacts and the educational power that religion aims to offers to the masses of believers (Albanian Encyclopaedia Dictionary, 2009).

Confucianism on Political Legitimacy

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
Tongdong Bai
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The State ◽  
Basic Fact ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Basic Goods ◽  
The People ◽  
Xun Zi ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Political Decisions

This chapter discusses political legitimacy within the Confucian context. It attempts reconcile the early Confucians’ embrace of equality with their defense of hierarchy. The chapter also considers how to reconcile their idea that the legitimacy of the state lies in service to the people, with the idea that it is not the people alone who make the final political decisions. It shows that the lack of capacities of making sound political decisions by the masses cannot result from the failure of the state to secure basic goods, education, and other necessary conditions for people to make sound political decisions, and it has to be the result of a basic fact of human life. That is, in spite of all these governmental efforts that are demanded by them, and in spite of their beliefs that human beings are all potentially equal (Mencius and Xun Zi) or close to being equal (Confucius), early Confucians also took it as a fact of life that the majority of the people cannot actually obtain the capacity necessary to make sound political decisions and participate fully in politics.

scholarly journals Sebuah Pertanyaan Sejarah; Tela’ah awal mengenai Dasar negara Indonesia yang baru berdiri

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rais Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
National Unity ◽  
The People ◽  
Unanimous Agreement

Abstract: Post-deal committee of nine, there are any changes to the Indonesian state. The grounds are the demands of the people of Indonesia in the east, then Hatta replace some that had been unanimous agreement, such as changes in the Preamble words into the opening, the loss of seven words is important for Muslims in the first precepts of Pancasila, the loss of presidential terms are Muslims, and others. Indirectly happen betrayal of the agreement that has been signed. But on the basis of national unity of Indonesia, eventually changes acceptable Indonesian society at large.Keywords: The State, Indonesia, HistoryAbstrak: Pasca kesepakatan panitia sembilan terjadi perubahan mendadak terhadap dasar negara Indonesia. Dengan alasan tuntutan rakyat Indonesia di wilayah timur, kemudian Hatta mengganti beberapa kesepakatan yang telah bulat, seperti perubahan kata Mukadimah menjadi pembukaan, hilangnya tujuh kata penting bagi umat Islam dalam sila Pertama Pancasila, hilangnya syarat presiden beragama Islam, dan lain sebagainya. Secara tidak langsung terjadi pengkhianatan atas kesepakatan yang telah ditandatangani. Akan tetapi atas dasar persatuan dan kesatuan bangsa Indonesia, akhirnya perubahan yang terjadi dapat diterima masyarakat Indonesia secara luas.Kata Kunci: Dasar Negara, Indonesia, Sejarah

Film and Religion in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Michael Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
Film Content ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Film Experience

Religion intersects with film not only in film content, but also in the production and experience of film. From the earliest period, religious attitudes have shaped how religious individuals and communities have approached filmmaking as way to present temptation or salvation to the masses. Individual religious communities have produced their own films or have sought to monitor those that have been mass produced. To avoid conflict, filmmakers voluntarily agreed to self-monitoring, which had the effect of strongly shaping how religious figures and issues were presented. The demise of this system of self-regulation reintroduced conflict over film content as it expanded the ways in which religious figures and issues were presented, but it also shifted attention away from the religious identity of the filmmakers. Built on a foundation of “reading” symbolism in “art” films, and drawing from various forms of myth—the savior, the end of the world, and others—audiences became more comfortable finding in films religious symbolism that was not specifically associated with a specific religious community. Shifts in American religious demographics due to immigration, combined with the advent of the videocassette and the expansion of global capitalism, broadened (and improved) the representation of non-Christian religious themes and issues, and has resulted in the narrative use of non-Christian myths. Experimentation with sound and image has broadened the religious aspect of the film experience and made it possible for the viewing of film to replicate for some a religious experience. Others have broadened the film-viewing experience into a religious system. While traditional film continues to present traditional religions in traditional ways, technology has radically individualized audio-visual production, delivery, and experience, making film, like religion, and increasingly individualized phenomenon.

A Necessary but Impossible Political Practice: Althusser between Machiavelli and Marx

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-113
Author(s):  
Fabio Bruschi
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
The People ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Althusser’s Machiavelli and Us has often been considered as the French Marxist’s first step on the path beyond Marxism. This article opposes this interpretation by showing that, while Machiavelli helps Althusser to renounce any attempt to deduce a communist political practice from the necessity portrayed by a theory of history, Althusser was mindful not to identify the relationship between the communist party and the masses with the relationship between the Prince and the people. From a Marxist perspective, a communist political practice must further the autonomous political initiatives of the masses that delineate a tendency towards the withering-away of the state and cannot merge with a practice of governing the people. This is why Marxism must not forsake its theory of history but employ it in the process of the subtraction of the party to its becoming-state by detecting the conditions of impossibility of the duration of a communist political practice.

Stuck in the Middle: The Inspector for Religious Denominations as Mediator between the Religious Community and the Early Communist Romanian State

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-147
Author(s):  
Anca Șincan
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Belief System ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Communist State ◽  
State Administration ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between state and religious denominations in communist Romania was mediated, supervised and enforced among others by a member of the state administration—the local inspector for religious denominations. Inherited from the Soviet practice this position is new in the state apparatus. The present article offers an overview of the particularities of the inspector’s work. Constantly moving between the requirements of his position, his communist orthodoxy and his own belief system and world view he had a difficult task of going between the state administration and the religious communities and make the policies and regulations of the totalitarian state palatable and enforceable. A sounding board for state policies whose applicability they tested in the field they were the last link of the newly designed relationship between the communist state and religious denominations.

scholarly journals Interaksi Antar Dua Komunitas Agama (Islam-Kristen) Pasca Konflik di Desa Latta Kota Ambon

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alce Albartin Sapulette
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Community Conflict ◽  
The Impact

Latta Village is one of the villages besides Wayame Village which did not experience the impact of the Maluku conflict in 1999, even though the people were multi-religious (Islam and Christian). The people of Latta Village remain united and maintain the common life order between Islam and Christianity that has been fostered from the beginning. Relationships or social relations remain well intertwined with one another. Research has been conducted on the interaction between two religious communities (Islam-Christians) post-conflict in Latta Village, Ambon City. This study aims to describe the social interactions that occur in the community using a qualitative approach. Based on the results of the study, it was found that there was an interaction relationship that remained intertwined in the lives of the people of Latta Village before and after the conflict. The relationship occurred because of good contact and communication between the Islamic community and the Christian community, and also because of the intervention of the Village Head, Imams, Priests and the community as a whole. Therefore, it can be concluded that the interaction relationships must remain maintained in order to create a life of a peaceful and harmonious society.Keywords: social interaction, religious community,conflict

scholarly journals فلاحی ریاست میں عہدہ داروں کے چناؤکا معیار

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (- 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abzahir Khan ◽  
Muhammad Ayub
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Related Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Masses

State is the basic requisite of any coordinated and civilized nation. The state must exist for maintaining harmony, adherence to law and mutual relationship within a nation. Each and every nation has undergone diverse experiences with respect to the state. However, the approach of a welfare state is found is the present day era. The approach of such a welfare state guarantees all the individual and collective rights of a nation. The main focus of a welfare state is human and humanities. All its potentials have to ensure the survival, safety of human beings and safeguarding his life, property and honor.         A welfare state holds various institutions which for the good and welfare of the masses. in order to run various administrator bodies, it requires competent and skilled persons. These persons and individuals should be equipped with integrity, power to work, moderations, competence, skill and experience in the concern faculty, so that they may put the institutions on the right direction and the people could benefit always.  In the perspective of the related article the standard of selecting office bearers in a welfare state has been dealt with.

scholarly journals ABOUT THE REASONS FOR THE RETURN OF N. V. USTRYALOV TO HIS HOMELAND (BASED ON HIS EPISTOLARY HERITAGE)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-729
Author(s):  
V. K. Romanovski
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Far East ◽  
The State ◽  
Scale Transformation ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The People ◽  
Personal Motivation ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Political Thinker ◽  
The Relationship

The article considers the problem of taking the decision by the publicist and political thinker N. V. Ustryalov to return to his homeland from Far East. Based on the analysis of the materials of his correspondence with his friend N. G. Dikii, which happened in 1930-1935, the author reveals the influence of the unstable economic and political situation in the area of Chinese Eastern railway on various aspects of the life of a well-known “smenovekhovets” in Harbin. Also the author analyzes the escalating of difficulties and problems that he faced in service, teaching, publicistic, socio-political and other spheres of activity; reveals the reasons for the compilation and break up of the relationship with his colleagues and recent associates, which became conditions and circumstances that caused this choice. But the defining role in N. V. Ustryalov’s decision to return home was a factor of his personal motivation - a deep yearning for his homeland, sense of duty to the state and the people, the desire to help his homeland in conditions of its large-scale transformation. The author also highlights the fact that the thinker’s reflections about coming back are permeated not only with nostalgia for his homeland and patriotic thoughts, but also with painful worrying, anxiety and concern for his family and possible lack of demand in the USSR. An irresistible desire to return to his homeland faced in his mind the premonition of the irreversible tragic consequences of his choice.

scholarly journals Interreligiösa gruppers samarbete med kommuner i Sverige

Politik ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Community ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Plurality ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Public Sphere

In Swedish contemporary society we nd ongoing processes of secularization and the idea of secularism be- ing challenged by a growing religious plurality in society. e overall purpose of this article is to highlight what happens when religion in a secularized and secular society enter into the public sphere as a result of inter-religious groups’ collaboration with local authorities. is is done through interviews and observations of three inter-religious groups meetings during 2010 and 2011. e collaboration between the inter-religious groups and the local authorities were initiated as a result of perceived problems of integration in the society and aims to include religious communities in society which may change the ongoing processes of seculariza- tion. One of the major problems with the collaborations was related to which religious community could be included by reasons of economic resources, access to personnel and premises and the acceptance and establishment in society. 

scholarly journals Domestic Violence

1970 ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Bishop George Khodor
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Law ◽  
Muslim Scholars

It appears that we are witnessing a debate taking root between Muslim scholars or “propagandists” and the state over the issue of domestic violence which is a form of violence. These brothers see the proposed draft law to be at odds with Islamic law and use the latter to ensure that a woman is obedient to her husband. This is what little I read in the press. In the absence of the integral text refuting the law, you cannot take a position, especially if you are a non-Muslim. I expect there will be major divisions not only among the various religious communities, but also within one and the same religious community.

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