scholarly journals Civic Church and Civic Religion: Ukrainian Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 101-103
Author(s):  
Anna Slubska
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
The Revolution

The Revolution of Dignity and the events on Independence Square entered the newest history of Ukraine and for many years gave material for reflection not only to historians, political scientists and sociologists, but also to religious scholars. It is precisely on the Maidan that the phenomenon of not only the long-awaited civil society, but also directly related to it the phenomena of religious life - the civil religion and the civil church - have become a phenomenon. The religious factor once again in the history of independent Ukraine has shown its significant influence on public life and political processes in the country.

Socio-political and confessional preconditions of the birth of the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church in Western Ukraine (20-30 years of the twentieth century)

2000 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
R. Soloviy
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Religious Influences ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
First World

In the history of religious organizations of Western Ukraine in the 20-30th years of the XX century. The activity of such an early protestant denominational formation as the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church occupies a prominent position. Among UCRC researchers there are several approaches to the preconditions for the birth of the Ukrainian Calvinistic movement in Western Ukraine. In particular, O. Dombrovsky, studying the historical preconditions for the formation of the UREC in Western Ukraine, expressed the view that the formation of the Calvinist cell should be considered in the broad context of the Ukrainian national revival of the 19th and 20th centuries, a new assessment of the religious factor in public life proposed by the Ukrainian radical activists ( M. Drahomanov, I. Franko, M. Pavlik), and significant socio-political, national-cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the events of the First World War. Other researchers of Ukrainian Calvinism, who based their analysis on the confessional-polemical approach (I.Vlasovsky, M.Stepanovich), interpreted Protestantism in Ukraine as a product of Western cultural and religious influences, alien to Ukrainian spirituality and culture.

scholarly journals Civic religion as an ecumenical perspective

2009 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes

In the socio-political and religious studies, the hands of Ukraine for some reason are not accepted to write about the civil religion. Some people, in view of the actualization of this phenomenon, even seek to accuse the Branch of Religious Studies of the NASU of anti-denominational (sometimes even called specific religions or denominations) intentions. Some see this as a desire to find some kind of spiritual foundation for possible totalitarian regimes in our country. Meanwhile, building a civil society in Ukraine should be relevant not only to the study of civil religion, but also to the implementation of this phenomenon in the process of building a society with which it is directly correlated.

scholarly journals Pancasila, Democracy, and NKRI Ber-sharī’ah in Indonesia: How Christians Should Respond and Participate

EMPIRISMA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Jonathan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
History Of

Democracy, pluralism, Pancasila, and religious freedom become a heated debate in Indonesia because they are not only theoretical and conceptual but also have a significant influence on many aspects of the nation’s life. Moreover, the demand for the implementation of sharī’ah from a small number of Muslim groups continues to echoe in this country which, off course, concern also the Christians who become the second largest population in this country. This paper is an attempt to examine the Christians’ participation in democracy and Pancasila amids the demand for the implementation of sharī’ah in Indonesia. It discusses theological perspectives for Christians’ participation in the public space, a brief history of the struggle on sharī’ah law and Pancasila, and how Christians have and should respond through civil society. The paper argues that Christians can participate in many ways in democratization and defending Pancasila in Indonesia through the channels of civil society.Keywords: Democracy, Pancasila, Shari’ah, Indonesian Christians

scholarly journals Arab Spring: Islam dalam gerakan sosial dan demokrasi Timur Tengah

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Shafira Elnanda Yasmine
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political System ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
The Revolution

Social movement during Arab Spring has lead to political uprising in Middle East. Started from Tunisia, the revolt spread to neighboring states such as Egypt, Libya, also Syiria. Influenced by religion and strong Islamic tradition, protestors demand the presence of democracy within political system which had held autocracy as ruling system for decades. It is commonly assumed that democracy and Islam were mostly incompatible, moreover in a state whose Islamic values has deeply rooted in the daily life of its people. This article focuses in the usage of Islamic values within global civil society movement in Arab Spring. Theory of Islam and Ideology were applied to analyze the phenomena. Having view the revolution generally, this research found that Arab Spring is required as a phase which led Islam into particular flexibility level towards democracy and brought democratization into the Arab world. This article resulted in the conclusion that trigger a revolution not because of religious affairs, the demonstrators were joined not one hundred percent Muslim, and the issues that required not related to the religious life of the community, but Islam is either the value or the practice of worship, can not be separated in the organization of the masses during the revolution.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Functionality of the Religious Complex as a Realization of its Social Adaptation Capabilities

2009 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Leonid A. Vyhovsʹkyy
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Qualitative Aspect ◽  
Primitive Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
Separate Subsystem

Religion in the history of society, as we know, has not always emerged as a relatively independent spiritual formation. Thus, in the conditions of primitive society, characterized by the syncretic nature of forms of human activity, it was not a separate subsystem, but a qualitative aspect of community life. Therefore, such religious beliefs permeate virtually all spheres of public life, moreover, often were its essence. For this reason, a religious factor was, to one degree or another, present in all the structural and functional elements of social life of the time. It was he who determined the integrity and vector of social development of primitive society itself.

scholarly journals Российская гуманитарная деятельность периода Гражданской войны (1917-1921 гг.): проблемы изучения

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.S. Ippolitov
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Short Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment

Российская гуманитарная деятельность периода Гражданской войны на территориях, подконтрольных антибольшевистским режимам, является крайне малоизученной областью отечественной исторической науки. Заполнению этой лакуны и посвящена настоящая статья. В отечественной историографии до сих пор отсутствует специальный труд на указанную тему. Отдельные исследователи, обращавшие на неё внимание в своих публикациях, часто делали это фрагментарно, попутно с решением других научных задач. Наиболее исследованной она оказалась в изысканиях уральских и сибирских учёных, занимавшихся научной работой в региональных архивах, в которых сохранился значительный массив необходимых источников. Другой источниковой базой для изучения российской гуманитарной деятельности стал Государственный архив Российской Федерации, располагающий корпусом документов из состава Пражского архива документальной коллекции Русского заграничного исторического архива в Праге, переданного нашей стране в 1945 г. Внимательное рассмотрение вопроса показало, что в условиях деградации государственных и муниципальных институтов, развала политической жизни, острого гражданского конфликта, экономического кризиса, охватившего всю территорию бывшей Российской Империи, дефицита предметов первой необходимости и продуктов питания российская гуманитарная деятельность не только не была свернута, но и пережила на коротком отрезке времени расцвет, поэтому формирование историографической основы дальнейших исследований является для нас сегодня актуальной задачей.Russian humanitarian activity during the Civil War in the territories controlled by the antiBolshevik regimes is an extremely poorly studied area of Russian historical science. The article is devoted to the study of historiography of this problem and aims to outline the main directions in which scientific thought has been moving in the study of this littleknown area. At the same time, publications containing significant factual distortions of the events that took place in Russia appeared in foreign historiography, either not noticing the processes of selforganization of Russian civil society in the humanitarian field, or reducing all Russian humanitarian activities during the Civil War to the policy of Western powers. As for the national historiography, there is still no special work on this topic. Individual researchers who drew attention to the problem of humanitarian activities in their publications often did so in fragments, along with solving other scientific problems. The most studied area of public life during the Civil War was described by the Ural and Siberian scholars who did research in local regional archives which preserved a significant array of sources on this problem. Russian scholars working in regional archives managed to recreate the dramatic history of the civil societys participation in the rescue and preservation of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage, which was exposed to the risk of an irreparable loss in the conditions of civil confrontation. Another source base for the study of Russian humanitarian activities is the State Archive of the Russian Federation, which stores a body of documents from the Prague Archive, a documentary collection of Russian foreign historical archive in Prague, transferred to our country in 1945. In the conditions of the degradation of state and municipal institutions, the collapse of the political life and the acute civil conflict, the tasks of maintaining public life, providing assistance to the needy, preserving culture and education were largely assumed by civil society. In the context of the economic crisis that engulfed the entire territory of the former Russian Empire, the shortage of the most necessary funds, basic necessities and food, the Russian humanitarian activity was not curtailed, but flourished for a short period of time. Therefore, the formation of the historiographic basis for further research is an urgent task: at the moment, there is no generalizing research work that systematizes the literature on these issues in the domestic historiography.

scholarly journals Civic religion as a means of solving problems of interfaith dialogue

2008 ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Civic Religion ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes

Oddly enough, in Ukraine for some reason it is not customary to speak of a civil religion. Some people, in view of the actualization of this phenomenon, are trying to accuse the Branch of Religious Studies of IFU of anti-confessional (sometimes even called specific religions or denominations) intentions. Some see this as a desire to find some kind of spiritual basis for possible totalitarian regimes in our country. Meanwhile, building a civil society in Ukraine should be relevant not only to the study of civil religion, but also to the work on introducing this phenomenon into the process of building such a society with which it is directly correlated.

scholarly journals Commentary on the paper by L.S. Vygotsky "Theatre and Revolution"

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.S. Sobkin ◽  
V.S. Mazanova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

The authors provide comments on the paper by L.S. Vygotsky "Theatre and Revolution" (1919) which ana¬lyzes the reaction of the theatre to the social and political processes that took place in Russia in the course of the revolution. The paper focuses in particular on the following aspects: the historical context; the influence of sociocultural situation on the development of the theatre and its choice of repertoire; the social changes in the¬atre audiences; the emergence of new theatrical forms induced by political changes. The comments to the paper refer to the biographical events as well as to the history of the theatre, culture and psychology. This enables the authors to reconstruct the sociocultural context necessary for understanding not only this very paper by L.S. Vygotsky, but also the process of formation of his views as the founder of cultural-historical psychology.

The ages of voluntarism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hilton ◽  
James Mckay
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Big Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of

This introductory chapter provides the historical background to the rise of the Big Society, surveying the history of voluntarism over the last century. Politicians and commentators have long bemoaned the supposed decline of civic life, fretting about its health and its future. In fact, the real story of voluntarism over the last hundred years has not been decline, but constant evolution and change. Whether the terms charity, philanthropy, civil society, non-governmental organisations, the third sector or the Big Society are used, voluntary endeavour is one of the most vibrant and dynamic areas of British public life. Voluntarism not only continues to thrive, but is also far larger than any political agenda that may be imposed upon it.

Interfaith relations in the context of freedom of religion

1996 ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Babiy
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Round ◽  
International Round Table

This is extremely relevant and very important both in theoretical and practical dimensions, the problem was at the center of the discussions of the international scientific conference, which took place on May 6-7, 1996 in Lviv. The mentioned conference was one of the main events within the framework of the VI International Round Table "History of Religions in Ukraine", at its meetings 3-6, as well as on issues of outstanding dates in the history of the development of religious life in Ukraine on the 8th of May: "400 "the anniversary of the Brest Union", and "400th anniversary of the birth of Peter Mohyla"

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