scholarly journals La « minorité » en tant que force politique dans le système politique occidental

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Georges Contogeorgis
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

In this paper the author questions the future of minorities as a political force. He notes in this respect that religion no longer plays a preponderant role in occidental societies as a mobilizing force for autonomous action. Religious minorities no longer succeed in intervening in politics. The author underscores the contrast with the prevailing situation in Eastern socialist societies where the Church is the only institution that can stand up to the State which tends to monopolize politics. He also raises the problems caused by the coexistence of religious and linguistic or ethnic groups.

scholarly journals About the state of Ukrainian Orthodoxy

2013 ◽  
pp. 226-232
Author(s):  
Igor Isychenko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
The State ◽  
Communist Society ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Decisive Influence ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Church

Mistakes in the assessment of the church situation in Ukraine are most often associated with an irrational decisive influence on the confessional situation of the social realities of the post-communist society. A factor that is indisputable for an American citizen is that religious faith is a personal business in Ukraine can be declared, but not seriously perceived by any political force. Moreover, traditionally atheistic parties reveal unexpected activity in confessional affairs. I do not know if they saw here, in the USA, the election racist video of the party of Progressive Socialists Natalia Vitrenko? There, the devout grandmother in the church turns to the high monk in a hood for blessing. He suddenly returns - he's black! My grandmother scowled back, and on the screen are visible titles: "Let's protect the canonical Orthodoxy!"

'They Give us the Categories and We Fill Ourselves in' Ethnic Thinking in Singapore

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 451-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
State Support ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
The Future

AbstractThis paper will demonstrate the prevalence of 'ethnic thinking' in everyday life and the role which culture plays in defining individuals and groups in Singapore. I will argue that the Singapore state has intentionally created a national identity which rests on the idea of the assumed purity of the different ethnic groups which exist within that nation. Singpore's multi-racial policies force the heterogeneous character of the population into four 'races' and there are no officially recognised inter-ethnic individuals within the state. The official promotion of 'ethnic' culture which claims that ethnic identity and culture are somehow identical results in a culture of stereotypes which shapes everyday life - where people live and how they interact as neighbours, for example. The stereotypes are reinforced by religious festivals. While state support of ethnic differentiation has helped to prevent ethnic violence, the politicisation of ethnic identity may ironically encourage conflict in the future when ethnic and economic divisions coincide.

Cultural Deference, Community Survival

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 288-309
Author(s):  
Bernardo Brown
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The State ◽  
Visible Minority ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ambiguous Position

Abstract After the military defeat of the Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka, nationalist sectors backed by Sinhala Buddhist ideology turned to religious minorities in search of new enemies of the State. These have included Muslims and Evangelical Christians who are described as foreign intruders that contaminate the traditions of the nation. Catholics have been spared of accusations of proselytism and the introduction of foreign cultures partly due to the Church leadership’s explicit stance against Evangelical missionary activities and its support of Sinhala nationalist discourse. Catholic communities of Sri Lanka thus find themselves in an ambiguous position: incorporated into the national citizenry, yet a visible minority anxious not to become marginalized like other religious minorities.

The Religious Context of the English Civil War

1984 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 155-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Morrill
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Great Increase ◽  
The State ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

LENGTHY reports survive of speeches by several members of the Long Parliament for 9 November 1640, at the end of the first week of the session. The future royalist militant, George Lord Digby is reported to have begun his address by saying that:you have received now a solemn account from most of the shires of England of the several Grievances and Oppressions they sustain, and nothing as yet from Dorsetshire: Sir I would not have you think that I serve for a Land of Goshen, and that we live there in sunshine, whilst darkness and plagues overspread the rest of the land The future royalist moderate Sir John Culpepper is reported to have begun: I stand not up with a Petition in my hand, I have it in my mouth, and he enumerated the grievances of his shire beginning with the great increase of papists and the obtruding and countenancing of divers new ceremonies in matters of religion. The future Parliamentarian moderate, Harbottle Grimston, said that these petitions which have been read, they are all remonstrances of the general and universal grievances and distempers that are now in the state and Government of the Church and Commonwealth. The future Parliamentarian radical Sir John Wray said:All in this renowned senate, I am confident, is fully fixed upon the true Reformation of all Disorders and Innovations in Church or Religion, and upon the well uniting and close rejoining of the poor dislocated Great Britain. For, let me tell you Mr Speaker, that God be thanked, it is but out of joint and may be well set by the skilful chyrurgeons of this Honourable House.

Orthodox Churches and the ‘Othering’ of Islam and Muslims in Today’s Balkans

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-401
Author(s):  
Egdūnas Račius
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Church

Abstract The article focuses on the relation between the socio-legal status of national Orthodox Churches and their role in the legal, institutional and social ‘othering’ of Islam and ethnic groups of Muslims in three Balkans countries, namely, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia. The research reveals that the state-pursued construction of national identity and politics of belonging are expressly permeated by ethno-confessional nationalism, which is at the core of the deep-running tensions between the dominant ethnic group and the marginalized Muslims. There is an alliance between the political and the Church elites to keep ethnic groups of Muslim background either altogether outside the ‘national Us’ or at least at its outer margins.

Church and State in Nigeria

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Sunday A. Aigbe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church

This article examines the Christian factor as it relates to the socio-political responsibility and development in Nigeria, and postulates that the Churches in Nigeria fall into two major categories in relation to the state: Identificationism and Isolationism. The study contends that in order to adequately assess the specific roles the Churches play in nation-building, an institutional and functional definition of the Church is necessary. It concludes that the Churches do have a role to play in shaping the future of a nation, including prophetic referee, historico-cultural integrator, moral role model, social mobilizer, and spiritual and vocational mentor.

Die Hand und die Technik

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
Manfred Schneider
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Technology Evolution ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church

The church cleric Gregor von Nyssa celebrated the evolution of the hand as a bequest to the mouth and lips. Liberated from the compulsory, primordial pursuit of food, it can now devote itself to the functions of speech and rationality. The modern age has set about disencumbering he hand in an ever-expanding machine park. Elation, however, has been muted. If the hand no longer serves the mouth but the machine, isn't the association to the state of being human lost? The modern age in conspicuous insistence, rejects the storm of technology, evolution and the animality of the human prerogative by meditating on the future fate of the hand.

Transnational, National, and Ecumenical Convergences: The Baptist, Anglican, and Orthodox Reactions to the Romanian 1938 Religion Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
Iemima Ploscariu
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Religious Associations ◽  
The Church

The Romanian Ministry of Religious Denominations passed Decision nr. 26208 in 1938, severely curtailing the activity of a number of religious associations. The most numerous of these were the Baptists. They maintained close ties with ethnic minority co-religionists within Romania and collaborated with religious organizations abroad, especially the Baptist World Alliance (bwa). The latter resulted in conflict with Romanian government and ecclesiastical authorities. The actions of the bwa in opposition to the Decision reveal the extent to which transnational organizations influenced the development of policies concerning religion during the crucial years leading into World War ii. Using previously unused archival material, the article draws out the role of domestic religious minorities in the struggle between the Church, the State, minority groups, and foreign powers and provides a fascinating convergence of national, transnational, and ecumenical attempts at changing the religious space in Europe.

scholarly journals HEYDAR ALIYEV AS A FOUNDER OF NATIONAL MULTICULTURALISM AT THE STATE LEVEL

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulfiyya Abilova
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The presented scientific article states that one of the main tasks of states is achieving tolerance in human relations and creating favorable conditions for people of different religions and cultures to live in peaceful environment. Azerbaijan has historically been a space where representatives of different ethnic groups and religions lived in an atmosphere of peace and friendship. Heydar Aliyev chose the exact ideological goal of the future successful development of Azerbaijan and, with his far-sighted and wise policy, developed the tradition of multiculturalism that had formed over the centuries and raised it to a qualitatively new stage.

Obecny stan badań nad Zagładą na Ukrainie

2014 ◽  
pp. 889-915
Author(s):  
Anna Abakunkova
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Holocaust Studies ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future

The article examines the state of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine for the period of 2010 – beginning of 2014. The review analyzes activities of major research and educational organizations in Ukraine which have significant part of projects devoted to the Holocaust; main publications and discussions on the Holocaust in Ukraine, including publications of Ukrainian authors in academic European and American journals. The article illustrates contemporary tendencies and conditions of the Holocaust Studies in Ukraine, defines major problems and shows perspectives of the future development of the Holocaust historiography in Ukraine.

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