The Social and Political Role of Religion in Europe: the Demand for Christian Identity

Inthearticleanalyzedthesocial and political role of Christian churches, their position in Europe from the pint of view of statistics and presence of the faith-based organizations in the society. The author made a conclusion that the politicized Christianity on the European continent tied with the pr...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:37ad43801bf1427d9c8835778e21356e2021-11-07T14:45:02ZThe Social and Political Role of Religion in Europe: the Demand for Christian Identity2542-02402587-932410.23932/2542-0240-2018-11-4-46-64https://doaj.org/article/37ad43801bf1427d9c8835778e21356e2018-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ogt-journal.com/jour/article/view/340https://doaj.org/toc/2542-0240https://doaj.org/toc/2587-9324Inthearticleanalyzedthesocial and political role of Christian churches, their position in Europe from the pint of view of statistics and presence of the faith-based organizations in the society. The author made a conclusion that the politicized Christianity on the European continent tied with the preserving of the role of Christian churches in the social structure as with the secularizationthatdidnotbecomedesecularization (thereturningofreligiontouchedonlyLatin America,Africa,Asia)andcreatedthevacuum of identity. The weakness of the modern Western European society in its capacity to defend and express the identity forced politicians to seek the support from Christian worldview. Different confessions demonstrated stable development and social mobility in the period of the formation of EU structures. The European politicization of Christianity became the part of the world process of the transfiguration of the religion into a way of the self expression of multiple identities in the circumstances of the inevitable globalization and becoming of the democracy as the optimal form of the social existence. The basic features of the process: the high number of church affiliated (faith based) civil organizations, network church activity, the possibility to reflect various forms of identity in a frames of the Christianized democratic structures.R. N. LUNKINАссоциация независимых экспертов «Центр изучения кризисного общества» (in English: Association for independent experts “Center for Crisis Society Studies”)articlereligion and politicschurch-state relationsproblems of identitysecularizationtraditionalismreligiosity in europeinterconfessional relationsInternational relationsJZ2-6530ENRUКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, Vol 11, Iss 4, Pp 46-64 (2018)
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RU
topic religion and politics
church-state relations
problems of identity
secularization
traditionalism
religiosity in europe
interconfessional relations
International relations
JZ2-6530
spellingShingle religion and politics
church-state relations
problems of identity
secularization
traditionalism
religiosity in europe
interconfessional relations
International relations
JZ2-6530
R. N. LUNKIN
The Social and Political Role of Religion in Europe: the Demand for Christian Identity
description Inthearticleanalyzedthesocial and political role of Christian churches, their position in Europe from the pint of view of statistics and presence of the faith-based organizations in the society. The author made a conclusion that the politicized Christianity on the European continent tied with the preserving of the role of Christian churches in the social structure as with the secularizationthatdidnotbecomedesecularization (thereturningofreligiontouchedonlyLatin America,Africa,Asia)andcreatedthevacuum of identity. The weakness of the modern Western European society in its capacity to defend and express the identity forced politicians to seek the support from Christian worldview. Different confessions demonstrated stable development and social mobility in the period of the formation of EU structures. The European politicization of Christianity became the part of the world process of the transfiguration of the religion into a way of the self expression of multiple identities in the circumstances of the inevitable globalization and becoming of the democracy as the optimal form of the social existence. The basic features of the process: the high number of church affiliated (faith based) civil organizations, network church activity, the possibility to reflect various forms of identity in a frames of the Christianized democratic structures.
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title_short The Social and Political Role of Religion in Europe: the Demand for Christian Identity
title_full The Social and Political Role of Religion in Europe: the Demand for Christian Identity
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