scholarly journals Apparitions of Virgin Mary: Sociological Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-186
Author(s):  
Darius Liutikas
Keyword(s):  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Moral Change ◽  
Community Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The Church

 The main purpose of this article is to discuss the social aspects of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the development of apparition places, as well as the motivation and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims going to the miraculous places of the Virgin Mary in Lithuania. The article reviews the criteria recognized by the Church for assessment of the authenticity of apparitions, their characteristics, paradigm, and other scientific researches, a list of the Vatican-approved apparitions and apparition places in Lithuania. We used the main elements of the paradigm of apparitions for an empirical study of the officially recognized apparition in Šiluva, Lithuania. Finally, we also explore the complex motivation of religious tourism and pilgrimage. It relates to the manifestation of pilgrims’ personal or community values and identity as well as other cognitive or social motives. The paper concludes that the apparitions of the Virgin Mary take place in locations where social groups resist political, social, or moral change. Therefore, places of apparitions become a continuously re-created and re-interpreted social reality.

scholarly journals Catechesis of Seniors in the Context of Their Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Skoczylas
Keyword(s):  
Good Health ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Third Age ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Modern seniors who are characterized by good health at the end of their professional activity engage in new forms of activity. Some of them are involved in the activities of universities of the third age, belong to the Family of Radio Maryja, are volunteers or use various forms of religious tourism and pilgrimages. Many manifestations of their activity come from the religiosity of seniors. The growing religiosity of seniors requires a systematic catechesis that helps them in its development. The church emphasizes that this catechesis should be adapted to the situation of a senior. Catechesis helps to read the religious meaning of this stage of life and to strengthen the motivation for Christian presence in the family and environment. Therefore, this catechesis should strengthen religious interest in faith, shape and sustain the motivation of Christian activity, in the Church and in the world. This is reflected in the Christian involvement in family upbringing, in the ecclesial community, for the social good and also in an attractive way of spending free time.

Le problème des vocations religieuses en Pologne

1968 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-234
Author(s):  
Witold Zdaniewicz
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conscious Level ◽  
The Church

In the first two parts of his work, the author devotes himself to a statistical study of changes in the personnel of convents in Poland between 1945 and 1958 (number of postulants, number of professed, number leaving the religious life, lay brothers and clerics). It would appear that the number of vocations among brothers in particular is diminishing, that twice as many leave as enter and that the brothers who leave outnumber the professed threefold. In a third part, the sociological analysis attempts to grasp, at a conscious level, the motivation of vocations: for priests, it is the desire for the apostolic life which predominates; for brothers, it is of a more monastic nature: to serve God. The enquiry also reveals the social factors under the influence of which monks become aware of their vocations. The more noticeable features are: the importance of the years of primary education, the importance of the liturgy, personal example and the activity of the Church, the reputation of the chosen community. Finally, enquiry at an individual level attempts to discover the way in which vocations arise: their difficulties, the cause of 'crises'. 46 % of clerics and 43% of brothers go through a crisis in the course of their lives. The cause is to be looked for in the increasing influence of 'secular' life on the convents; this influence has a profound effect on the activity and spirituality of religious, (the practice of obedience in particular). In conclusion: 1. The statistics create the impression not so much of 'crisis' as of modification in the recruitment of religious orders, (nuns are not taken into account in this study). 2. As for spiritual 'crises': these will find no solution unless the structures of the religious life adapt and accept postulants as they are, with all the implications of their modern mentality.

scholarly journals Review of the monograph by O.V. Vasilyeva “Ethnicity and Society in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): Sociological Analysis” (Yakutsk, 2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Gulnara F. Gabdrakhmanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Aspects ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Soviet Republic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
New Research ◽  
Original Approach

The article is devoted to the analysis of a new book – a monograph by O.V. Vasilyeva “Ethnicity and Society in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): Sociological Analysis”, published in 2020 in Yakutsk. Its advantage is a new original approach to studying the process of constructing ethnicity in the context of the development of capitalist relations and modern global economic flows. The reviewer gives some parallels in the social development of the Yakuts and Tatars at different historical stages. This is the emergence of the bourgeoisie and political organizations at the beginning of the 20th century, specific labeling under the influence of the Soviet Republic constitutional acts and post-Soviet census campaigns, the “acquisition of republics” in the conditions of the Soviet practice of national zoning of territories, etc. All such facts highlight how much the peoples of the Turkic world of the Russian Empire, the USSR, and the Russian Federation had in common. The monograph by O.V. Vasilyeva encourages new research in the field of social aspects of the the Turkic world ethnicity functioning.

scholarly journals “SOCIOLOGY OF ONTOLOGY”: IMPORTANCE OF THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CREED AT THE FIRST ECUMENICAL COUNCIL

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
VIKTOR S. LEVYTSKYY ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ecumenical Council ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church ◽  
Important Milestone

The process of adoption of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed is well documented and studied in modern literature. As a rule, it becomes the subject of research in religious studies or theological discourses. However, it raises philosophical problems. Interdisciplinary research allows us to see a tool in the struggle for church authority and power in a theoretical debate on the central principles of Christian dogma: “copyright” on the ontological basis of the teachings of the Church automatically increased the importance of its owners in the church hierarchy. Acknowledging the growing cultural influence of the Church, the confrontation of the opposing groups during the First Ecumenical Council was an important milestone in the struggle for the right to form the central meanings of the new social reality, as well as identities and institutions, which were based on it. The article analyzes the factors that ensured the victory of the party of Alexander Athanasius and ultimately led to the adoption of the Orthodox Symbol of Faith...

scholarly journals Cirios, trompetas y altares : el auto de fe como fiesta

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Moreno Martínez
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Personal Identification ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Historical View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservative View ◽  
The Many ◽  
Dramatic Presentation ◽  
The Church

El análisis del auto de fe en su vertiente festiva nos permite superar la vieja polémica de la historiografía liberal y la historiografia conservadora, en torno a la popularidad/repulsión social de la Inquisición. Trascendiendo las visiones unidireccionales, se intenta aprender el auto de fe general desde una perspectiva global; se integran las vertientes jurídica, religiosa y social a través de algunos de los múltiples ingredientes del auto: sensitivos (luz, colores, sonidos...), sociales (participación activa de artesanos, familiares y asistentes...) y simbólicos (orden preeminencial en las procesiones y en los tablados, juramentos...), para configurar el auto de fe como una fiesta compleja. poliédrica. En el auto de fe la Iglesia y el Estado tantas veces enfrentados, mostraban sus respectivos poderes concertados, con toda la capacidad intimidatoría de una simbología muy funcional y efectiva, y los componentes mórbidos de identificación personal del mal y la escenificación dramática.The analysis of the auto de fe on its festive side allows us to overecome the old discussion between the liberal histórical view and the conservative view that surrounds the social popularity/repulsion of the Inquisition. Overcoming the narrow visión we try to understand a global perspective; we intégrate the juridical, religious and social aspects through some of the many ingredients of the auto de fe: sensory (light, colours, sounds...), social (active participation of artisans, families and people present...) and symbolical (order of rank in processions on stages and oath taking...). All those aspects combine to make the auto de fe a very complex and many sided festivity. In the auto de fe, the Church and the State, many times oppossed to one another, showed that their respective powers were united, with all the intimidating power of a very effective and functional symbolism and the morbid components of a personal identification of evil and the dramatic presentation as a whole.

In search of miracles: pilgrimage to the miraculous places

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darius Liutikas
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Specific Behavior ◽  
International Context ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
First Time

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss various aspects of the development of the places of apparitions and miraculous images, motives and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims coming to the miraculous places of the Virgin Mary in Lithuania. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews literature about miraculous events and presents miraculous places in Lithuania (apparition places of the Virgin Mary and sites of miraculous images). Various classifications are applied. Pilgrims ' motivation and behavioral aspects are analyzed based on the quantitative survey. Findings – The research showed that the main motives of religious pilgrims visiting miraculous places were asking for God’s grace, health, expressing gratitude to Jesus or Virgin Mary as well as spiritual quest and renewal. These places attract pilgrims who want to solve different problems in their life or to recover from illnesses. Religious pilgrimage has different forms and rituals, and constitutes different models of the specific behavior. During the journey, pilgrims perform various religious practices such as praying, singing hymns, kissing the relics, etc. The grouping of devotional rituals performed during the pilgrimage and at the destination place is presented. Originality/value – The paper is important to the researchers of pilgrimage and religious tourism. For the first time, miraculous places of Lithuania are analyzed in the broader international context. Classifications of the miraculous sites indicate various aspects of the development of these places. Motives and behavioral characteristics of pilgrims enable to better understand the multidimensional reality of religious pilgrimage.

Daily Routine, Food and Faith. To Yu.F. Samarin’s Thesis on “Formalism” of the Church Life in the Pre-Petrine Period

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 268-279
Author(s):  
Abbot Vitaly Utkin
Keyword(s):  
Daily Routine ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Church

With reference to Yu. F. Samarin’s thesis on “Formalism” of the Church Life in the Pre-Petrine Period, the article examines the issue of the role of fasts, eating patterns and daily routine in general among most radical groups of Old Believers. The author of the article draws the conclusion that such conceptions were rooted in the Pre-Nikon Russian religious (monkish) traditions. The author pays special attention to the social and political aspect of the connection between food and payer for the Tsar in the context of the “spiritual Antichrist” teaching.

The Samarin Family and the Parish Question in the Russian Empire. 1860s–1910s

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 235-246
Author(s):  
Alexey L. Beglov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

The article examines the contribution of the representatives of the Samarin family to the development of the Parish issue in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The issue of expanding the rights of the laity in the sphere of parish self-government was one of the most debated problems of Church life in that period. The public discussion was initiated by D.F. Samarin (1827-1901). He formulated the “social concept” of the parish and parish reform, based on Slavophile views on society and the Church. In the beginning of the twentieth century his eldest son F.D. Samarin who was a member of the Special Council on the development the Orthodox parish project in 1907, and as such developed the Slavophile concept of the parish. In 1915, A.D. Samarin, who took up the position of the Chief Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, tried to make his contribution to the cause of the parish reforms, but he failed to do so due to his resignation.

The critical theory of democracy in Western political thought

2020 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Ruqaya Saeed Khalkhal
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
The Church ◽  
Theory Of Democracy ◽  
Or Applications ◽  
The Ideal

The darkness that Europe lived in the shadow of the Church obscured the light that was radiating in other parts, and even put forward the idea of democracy by birth, especially that it emerged from the tent of Greek civilization did not mature in later centuries, especially after the clergy and ideological orientation for Protestants and Catholics at the crossroads Political life, but when the Renaissance emerged and the intellectual movement began to interact both at the level of science and politics, the Europeans in democracy found refuge to get rid of the tyranny of the church, and the fruits of the application of democracy began to appear on the surface of most Western societies, which were at the forefront to be doubtful forms of governece.        Democracy, both in theory and in practice, did not always reflect Western political realities, and even since the Greek proposition, it has not lived up to the idealism that was expected to ensure continuity. Even if there is a perception of the success of the democratic process in Western societies, but it was repulsed unable to apply in Islamic societies, because of the social contradiction added to the nature of the ruling regimes, and it is neither scientific nor realistic to convey perceptions or applications that do not conflict only with our civilized reality The political realization created by certain historical circumstances, and then disguises the different reality that produced them for the purpose of resonance in the ideal application.

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