scholarly journals The Role of Religion and Religious Institutions in Modern Russian Society (in the estimates of the population of the metropolis)

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
Е. А. Кублицкая ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Modern Russian

The sociological monitoring conducted in the Moscow megalopolis (1996-2020) examines the indicators that characterize the involvement of the population in religious and secularization processes. The article also analyzes the role of religious teachings and religious organizations of modern Russian society in the assessments of Muscovites.

scholarly journals Religion in the Social and Political Life of Modern Russia: a Review of the Monography “Religion in Modern Russia: Contexts and Discussions”

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-677
Author(s):  
Vladimir N. Amelin ◽  
Arusyak Levonovna Hovhannisyan
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Relationship

The review reveals the main topics described in the monograph "Religion in modern Russia: contexts and discussions", published in 2019. The review examines the role of religion in the modern social and political life of Russia, the development of relations between the religious organizations and Russian state and society, the special features of the inter-religious dialogue in Russia, as well as the theoretical framework for studying the relationship between religion and the public sphere in the modern world. Modern political science pays mounting attention to the socio-cultural dimension and cultural and civilizational aspects of politics, overcoming the paradigm of modernity and the idea of linearity of political processes. Religion begins to act as one of the most important factors influencing the sphere of politics. In the current situation, when political processes are inherently post-secular, while the methods of describing them are still secular, it becomes necessary to develop new theoretical and methodological tools for studying the relationship between religion and politics. The review touches upon a possible theoretical framework for describing the role of religion in contemporary politics. The authors also pay attention to the role of religion in the formation of group identity, the socially significant functions of religious organizations, the role of religion in transmitting the most important values to wide sections of society. The review pays special attention to the problems of interreligious relations, as well as the relationship between religion and politics in Russia, emphasizes the important role of religion in resolving a number of problems in Russian society, where, in the context of the historically established coexistence of various religions and confessions, building interreligious and interconfessional dialogue is particularly important.

scholarly journals CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC LIFE OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Polina A. Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Modern Russian

This article considers specifics of the role of church and religious organization in life of modern Russian society. It marks the most challenging theoretical and methodological problems faced by the national sociology of religion. Particularly, special attention is paid to the question of theoretical and practical conceptualisation of two structural discipline’s conceptions – religiousness and churchism. Analysis of this problem provides an overview of empirical data on topical and controversial events for multi-religious Russian society like tolerance, liberality, violation of Believers’ feelings.

The essence and causes of the spiritual and moral decline of mankind in the XX century

1998 ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
V. Tolkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Social Force ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Religion

One of the most important reasons for such a clearly distressed state of society was the decline of religion as a social force, the external manifestation of which is the weakening of religious institutions. "Religion," Baha'u'llah writes, "is the greatest of all means of establishing order in the world to the universal satisfaction of those who live in it." The weakening of the foundations of religion strengthened the ranks of ignoramuses, gave them impudence and arrogance. "I truly say that everything that belittles the supreme role of religion opens way for the revelry of maliciousness, inevitably leading to anarchy. " In another Tablet, He says: "Religion is a radiant light and an impregnable fortress that ensures the safety and well-being of the peoples of the world, for God-fearing induces man to adhere to the good and to reject all evil." Blink the light of religion, and chaos and distemper will set in, the radiance of justice, justice, tranquility and peace. "

Accounting, greed, and beliefs in a nineteenth century communal religious society

2021 ◽  
pp. 103237322110323
Author(s):  
Tonya K Flesher ◽  
Dale L Flesher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Accounting History ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Harmony Society

The availability of the accounting and other records of a religious communal society (the Harmony Society) provides for a study that adds to the literature on accounting in religious organizations, a need highlighted in Carmona and Ezzamel’s article in Accounting History that discusses: (1) the unique spiritual dimension of religious institutions and its impact on accounting, and (2) the ‘sacred/profane divide’ (p. 122). The Harmonists’ communal beliefs were derived from Biblical interpretations and were necessitated by the need for shared labor and resources. Harmonists’ accounting records were sophisticated but did not account for labor costs provided by members. The interplay of these beliefs and the greed of the leaders impacted the group’s accounting system and created a spiritual/profane divide. The study explores the interplay between the role of accounting and the community’s beliefs and goals.

scholarly journals Публичное и частное в философии религии Ричарда Рорти

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Khitruk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Parish Community ◽  
Religious Institutes ◽  
Role Of Religion

The article covers the religious conception in the work of the famous American philosopher Richard Rorty. The author emphasises the secular and finalist views of R. Rorty on the nature of religion, and on the philosopher’s gradual perception of the need for their creative reinterpretation due to the actualisation of the role of religion in intellectual and political spheres. The article uncovers two fundamental constituents of Richard Rorty’s religious philosophy. The first of them is associated with R. Rorty’s perception of the ‘weak thinking’ concept in the writings of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo. R. Rorty holds ‘weak thinking’ and ‘kenosis’ to be the key to understanding the possibility of religion in the postmodern era. The second aspect concerns the existence of religion in the public space. Here the distinction between ‘strong’ narratives and ‘weak’ thinking correlates with the politically significant distinction between ‘strong’ religious institutions and private (parish, community) religious practice. Rorty believes that the activity of ‘strong’ religious structures threatens liberal ‘social hope’ on the gradual democratisation of mankind. The article concludes that Richard Rorty’s philosophy of religion presents an original conception of religion in the context of modern temporal humanism; the concept positively evaluates religious experience to the extent that it does not become a basis for theoretical and political manipulations on the part of ‘strong’ religious institutes.

scholarly journals Religious Organizations and Social Transformations in Ukraine: New Vectors of Mutual Influences

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 96-98
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Yuvsechko
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Direct Part ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Political Consolidation ◽  
Role Of Religion

The modern role of religion in society proves that, in a world-view and institutional manifestation, it is capable of performing and successfully fulfilling the functions of social and political consolidation. Church institutions have long been not only present in public life, but often have a direct influence on the activity of power structures. Religious organizations take a direct part in political life, through their influence, widely involve various secular organizations, and sometimes even create them, for the fulfillment of socio-political tasks.

Maurice and Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-174
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Fordoński
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
British Society ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Changing Role

This chapter explores the role and representation of religion in the text of Maurice and in critical readings of the novel. Concentrating primarily on the text itself, the chapter offers close readings of those parts of the novel where religion/religions play a part, stressing their importance in the structure of the novel. This analysis retraces the influence of religion (predominantly Christianity but also ancient Greek and pagan religious thought) on the main characters’ psychological development and behaviour, especially on the way they try to deal with irreconcilable demands of religion and their own psyche. The chapter thus reflects on Forster’s attitude towards religious institutions and the changing role religion played in early twentieth-century British society and among Edwardian writers. The chapter also considers the role of religion in the reception of the novel, both in scholarship and among twenty-first-century readers. The chapter concludes by considering questions of reception and the relevance of Maurice to twenty-first-century (queer) readers as concepts of homosexuality have undergone considerable changes in parts of the world.

DEMOCRATIC-POLITICAL CULTURE AND AUTHORITARY SYNDROME IN RUSSIAN SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Максим Александрович Никифоров ◽  
Марина Сергеевна Танцура
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Modern Russian

В статье исследуется вопрос места и роли авторитарного синдрома в формировании демократической политической культуры Российской Федерации. Исследуется проблема становления современной российской политической культуры, выделяются основные черты авторитарного синдрома, рассматриваются стадии травматизации российского общества. Выделяются вероятные тенденции дальнейшего развития политической культуры страны. The article explores the question about the place and role of the authoritarian syndrome in the formation of a Russian democratic political culture. The problem of the formation of modern Russian political culture is investigated, the main features of the authoritarian syndrome are highlighted, the stages of traumatization of Russian society are considered. Probable trends of further development of political culture of the country are highlighted.

Secrets, Gossip and Betrayal

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Kim Knibbe
Keyword(s):  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Moral Orientation ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Local Parish ◽  
Moral Universe ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Parish Priests

This article discusses the process of doing fieldwork on the role of religion in moral orientation and then writing about it as a series of small betrayals. During the research it became clear that to gain insight into the ways in which moral worlds are constructed and the place of religious institutions and their representatives in these moral worlds, it was very important to understand how individual "shameful" secrets were produced. Furthermore, it was through gossip that I became familiar with the ways people related to the church as an institution with a moral discourse, and with its representatives, the local parish priests. Both in sociology and in anthropology, gossip is seen as a way of creating a shared moral universe. This article examines the ways in which the researcher becomes part of social processes through the sharing of secrets and gossip, and the ethical difficulties that arise from this: on the one hand, it seems imperative not to betray secrets, not to repeat gossip, not to betray the atmosphere of complicity surrounding this. On the other hand, not analyzing how individual secrets are produced through social and cultural processes and ignoring the role of gossip meant leaving out some of the most significant data. Furthermore, it shows that by paying attention to the ways in which gossip and secrets circulate, one can go beyond the “case study” approach that limits much qualitative research on religion.

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