scholarly journals Legal Problems of Religious Organizations in the Context of Becoming a Democratic Society

2000 ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
O. P. Ananieva
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Associations

Evaluating the role and opportunities of state correction of the functions of religious organizations, it must be recognized that the state is not able to administratively change those trends and forms of activity that express the social purpose of religious associations and organizations.

Italian Scholarship on Pre-Modern Confraternities in Italy

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Elsenbichler
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
English Language ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Associations

The last fifteen to twenty years have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the study of medieval and Renaissance confraternities, those lay religious associations that pervaded the spiritual and social fabric of pre-modern European society. In English-language scholarship, the field was first surveyed by three historians who firmly left their mark on this fertile soil: Brian Pullan examined the place of the Venetian scuole (as local confraternities were called) in the social fabric of the state; Rab Hatfield investigated the social and political influence of the Florentine confraternity of the Magi; and Richard Trexler probed the place of confraternities for youths in Florentine civic ritual.

scholarly journals Prerequisites and Causes for the Maturation of the Systemic Crisis in the Mid-Twentieth Century Evangelical Baptist Church

2008 ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
O.P. Lahno
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
The Church

The twentieth century was a period of prolonged crisis of spirituality in the Soviet Union. The atheist state used all possible and impossible levers of various influences on religious associations and ordinary believers. Since the assertion of the Soviet authorities, an open war has been declared against any manifestation of religion. There were real battles: with their ideological fronts, offensives and retreats, the whole system of operations developed and the tactical plan in line with the party-approved strategy. The result of such disputes between the state and its believing citizens has been the church crises, schisms, and even the elimination of entire denominations. The most violent was the struggle against religious organizations disloyal to the Soviet authorities. It should be noted that even external loyalty did not save religious associations from the onslaught of anti-Sovietism

Social Responsibility of Religious Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-138
Author(s):  
O. Balabeikina ◽  
A. Yankovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Institute ◽  
Protection Goals

The main topic of the study is the social responsibility of religious organizations, the specific features of which are investigated on the example of individual dioceses of the State Christian Church of England. The goal is to analyze the leading ways of advancing of the indicated type of economic activity, to identify instruments for the implementation of social responsibility by a foreign religious institute on the territory of structural units of a regional level – dioceses. The main hypothesis of the study is that religious organizations, implementing a variety of activities within the framework of social responsibility, play a significant role in the economy of the region, largely taking on the social obligations of the state. To achieve the goal and confirm the statement, methods of analysis of actual and economic-statistical information and comparative comparison were used. The main findings of the study can be useful both in the realization of inter-confessional contacts and in the formulation of strategy for the development of state-religious relations in Russia, where the social and economic role of religious organizations is increasing. One of the distinguishing features of social responsibility of the Anglican Church organizations is implementing environment protection goals as one of the important directions in their social work. This part of social responsibility of religious institutions in our country is rarely embodied. The experience and model of managing social responsibility issues by the dioceses of the Church of England can be useful for Russian religious institutions aiming to build more successful and constructive partnership with the state.

scholarly journals Folkhemmets demokrati - En analys av den svenska socialdemokratins språkbruk kring demokratiska deltagandeformer

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
Anna Friberg
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
State Building ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Democratic Party ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article investigates the role that civic participation played for the formation of the concept of democracy, by surveying the language of The Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) in the 1920s. During the first half of the decade, the SAP outlined various forms of participation for the citizens. Having adopted the traditionally conservative concept of the People’s Home, the party increasingly used it as a metaphor for the fully democratized society. This, however, created a tension between the Social Democrats’ arguments about the importance of civil participation in a democratic society, and the idea of the state building the People’s Home for the citizens. Using theoretical insights from conceptual history as the point of departure, this article addresses this tension by showing that according to the SAP, the fully democratic society could be realized at two levels: both by the state and by the citizens themselves.

scholarly journals VIEWS ABOUT THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BELIEVERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Regina Mukhametzyanova -Duggal ◽  
◽  
Regina Mukhamadeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Role Of Religion

Based on sociological data, the article analyzes the value and moral views about the role of religion in the life of believers of the Republic of Bashkortostan (active members of Muslim and Orthodox religious organizations), examines state-confessional relations, areas of cooperation between religious organizations and the state, as well as the problem of missionary work.

scholarly journals Religious diversity as a factor in public security

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Elbakyan
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
State And Local

The article deals with topical issues of religious diversity in the framework of the religious situation in modern Russia. The article analyzes important indicators of the religious situation. They include public sentiments created by the subjective perception of the country's population of their religiosity and non-religiousness, in the context of the realization of the freedom of conscience right. Additional indicators of the religious situation are the following: inter-religious, inter-denominational relations and relations between believers and non-believers; the state and nature of public opinion in relation to religion. The criteria for the "complexity" of a religious situation have been determined through delineating of 1) internal and 2) external circumstances that create the conditions for the tension of the religious situation. The first group (1) includes: the degree of satisfaction / dissatisfaction of believers and groups of believers with the implementation, provision and protection of their rights and interests; instability and unsettledness of inter-religious and ethno-religious relations; the presence of contradictions and conflicts within religious associations. The second group (2) includes: the condition of state-religious relations associated with the implementation of legislatively enshrined principles and norms in the sphere of freedom of conscience by state and local authorities; the degree of mutual trust, loyalty, law-abidingness of religious associations; the state of public opinion in relation to religion, its adequate / inadequate expression by the media; the presence of conflicts between believers and non-believers, as well as the nature and intensity of missionary activities of religious organizations. The study of the religious situation, its comprehensive and objective analysis, serve as the basis for information support of state-religious relations and as help in the implementation of the principles of the state's religious policy in the practical activities of the authorities and administration. Using the example of a number of religious organizations, it will be shown that their persecution, especially of religious minorities, does not strengthen the security of the country, but, on the contrary, creates a number of quite serious risks for the stable functioning of society both “inside” the state and internationally. Considered through the prism of various models of state-religious relations, the religious situation in the country seems to be most favorable (both for the state and for religious organizations of various types) when there is religious freedom and the corresponding state-religious relations.

THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE FORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN CULTURE IN CIVIL SOCIETY FOR RAISING THE SOCIAL ROLE OF SPECIAL SERVICES

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 2115-2118
Author(s):  
Stanislava Dimitrova Milachkova
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Special Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic

Educational institutions play a key role in shaping a modern civil culture in society around the world, because without adequate civil education it is inconceivable to implement quality civilian control over special services. Civil education is a necessary process of learning practical knowledge and skills and shaping competencies for personal development and improvement, for structuring a democratic society, for laws, rights and responsibilities that provide opportunities for real participation in public life. Training for human rights and civil liability and duty, the position of a pupil-citizen, by adopting the principles and values that serve as the foundation and organization of democracy and the republic, the knowledge of the institutions and the laws by developing the rules in the social and political life, exercise and ability to properly justify. So they would find meaning in the individual and the collective responsibilities in their active citizenship. Civil education contributes to the development of a critical spirit, but through the exercise of arguments for reasoning and more accurate decision-making, reasoning and judgment. Through educational institutions, young citizens are prepared to conduct dialogue, debate, resolve conflicts, and embrace forms of civil communication and interaction with special services. This is a basic approach to the basic concepts - man and citizen. Within even the small city, through the education of democratic citizenship, new moral values are being built and active participation in the civil processes of the small community is taking place. The duty of adolescents to become aware of citizens' rights and obligations, norms of conduct and values in a democratic society, as well as the promotion of the role of special services in the Republic of Bulgaria, will prepare them for training and stability as active citizens of the world. Civil education forms a citizen. Civil society, as a public way of life, can function properly only on the basis of an adequate knowledge of the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria and the moral-legal will applying this knowledge in real life. Civil society is the sphere of social activity that focuses on the degree of socio-economic development of society and directly determines the state. The typing of the state has its objective basis in the typography of civil society. Each civil society is a system of human needs and means to meet them, labor, socio-economic, legal and other subject-practical and conscious-volitional relations, as well as a system of human rights organizations and various social institutions. The duty of the national education system to civil society is to build the citizen - the bearer of national self-awareness, civil culture, moral and moral-legal will. Only such a citizen will, in the course of his life, reproduce civil society in accordance with the national idea.

scholarly journals Procedury rejestracji podmiotów wyznaniowych i zmiany w strukturze wyznaniowej polskiego społeczeństwa po 1989 roku

2015 ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Firlit
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Systematic Change ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Religious Policy ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Institutional Dimension

The paper presents two main topics related to changes in religious structure of the Polish society between 1989–2013: administrative and legal registration procedures for churches and religious associations, which are a consequence of religious policy of the state, and a statistically documented description of transformation of the religious structure of the Polish society during the last twenty five years. Analysis of official documents shows that the systematic change in Poland led to liberalization of religious law and introduction of many new regulations concerning churches and religious organizations, which led to significant religious revival in its institutional dimension.

scholarly journals A SOCIAL FUNCTION IN THE SYSTEM OF STATE FUNCTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
A. Dmytryk ◽  
O. Ilyushyk
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
The State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of

The article deals with the social function in the system of functions of the state, namely the definition of this concept. In state functioning there is purposeful influence on various spheres of life, social processes and connections. In performing certain functions, the state affects social processes, their dynamics and directions through reforms, transformations, legal regulation of social relations. The implementation of social functions stabilizes the development of the society. The article provides an in-depth analysis of the definitions of the state social functions and provides its relevant concept. It can be argued that the definition of social functions of the state depends on a number of factors, namely legal, political, ideological, informational, etc. It is established that in the theory of the state and law much attention is paid to the study of the social functions of the state. It is determined that the social function of the state, as a dynamic one and inherent in a particular stage of development of the state determines the main activities of the state, expressing its essence and social purpose, aimed at implementing the goals and objectives. The Constitution of Ukraine, along with other tasks, sets the goal of forming a welfare state. The changes that have taken place as a result of the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other hand, have radically changed the socio-political and socio-economic situation in the society, as well as the ideas on the purpose, priorities and methods of realization of the social function of the state. The social function of the state is one of the main activities carried out in the social sphere of public relations to provide citizens with a decent standard of living, resolve social contradictions and realize the agreed interests of citizens, based on socially recognized and legally established social standards. The purpose of this article is to study the social function of the state. Despite the significant number of scientific papers devoted to the study of issues, the harmonisation of national legislation to the requirements of the European Union initiates research on the social function of the state in the context of dynamic socio-economic changes. Keywords: a state, a function, a social function, the objectives of the state, classification, stability, a social purpose of the state.

scholarly journals Reshaping relations between the state and the private sector post-COVID-19? Exploring the social licence framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 87-113
Author(s):  
Emma Borg ◽  
Charlotte Unruh
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
The State ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Normative Force ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Potential Benefits

During the COVID-19 pandemic governments across the globe have provided unparalleled support to private sector firms. As a result, new oversight mechanisms are urgently needed, to enable society to assess and, if necessary, redress, moves by firms which have taken government aid. Many jurisdictions have seen the introduction of �piecemeal� conditionality on different pots of aid. This paper argues that a better response would be to adopt a more unified approach. In particular, the paper explores the social licence framework as a potential way to �build back better�. It is argued that the nature of the implicit social contract between society and the private sector provides the normative force underpinning demands for a social purpose for business, and that this purpose in turn can be used to specify the conditions firms must meet to legitimise their operations. The paper then considers three core elements involved in any introduction of a social licence framework, and surveys the potential benefits and challenges that might emerge in moving towards a social licence framework.

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