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IDENTITATE TERITORIALĂ ȘI PROIECTE DE SUCCES ALE POLITICII DE COEZIUNE. STUDIU DE CAZ: ALBA IULIA - „CEALALTĂ CAPITALĂ”

Author(s): Corina Turșie / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Starting from the assumptions highlighted by the literature that the success of the cohesion policy interventions is favoured by the presence of territorial identity (local culture, heritage, social capital and know-how), generating satisfaction among citizens, this paper proposes a case-study regarding the municipality of Alba Iulia, symbol-city for the formation of the Romanian national state. The paper documents the fact that the rehabilitation of Alba Carolina Citadel, using European funds, was considered a success story, being based on local needs and building upon an existing culture-led territorial identity. The content analysis of the territorial identity narrations developed by the municipality in several strategic development documents, after the completion of the Citadel’s rehabilitation, shows a Europeanized vision for the city’s future.

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Valstybės ir bažnyčios atskyrimo principas: lyginamieji aspektai ir teisinė padėtis Lietuvoje

Author(s): Mindaugas Lankauskas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 63 (1)/2009

The article deals with separation of church and state in the Republic of Lithuania and different foreign countries. This legal and political doctrine mainly means coordination of two principles – state secularism and freedom of religion. Respective doctrine is analyzed from the historical perspective though comparative analysis of present situation is provided as well. The main focus is designated to countries where separation of church and state models were most interesting taking into account various peculiarities. It should be mentioned that separation of church and state can be absolute (French laļcité) or partial (Spanish model). Lithuanian legal framework in this respect provides some kind of partial separation. In the article author also disputes particular legal privileges derived to traditional religious communities.

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THE INEVITABLE INTERTWINEMENT OF POLITICAL SYSTEM AND RELIGION

Author(s): Ahmet Murat Taşer / Language(s): English Issue: 40/2018

A political system which is composed of a state with all the institutions and functions, and the environment that influences its functions can be a side of the relations with the religion. Since, both religion and modern state are interested in shaping the emotions, thought patterns and behaviour of the society and have rules governing their actions, and also sanctions if rules are not followed. Thus, we can say that religion and the state both penetrate to all parts of the individual’s life, and they demand to organise it properly. It is argued in this paper that due to the nature of both the state and religion, the relation between them is inevitable. Consequently, the only variable to search for in a research on the relations is the dimension, intensity and quality of that relation.

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Americanism vs. Islamism: A Personal Perspective

Author(s): Zuhdi Jasser / Language(s): English Issue: 29/2011

My venturing into public discussions on the intersection between religion and politics is not something that I chose, but rather something I felt obliged to do after 9/11. Prior to then, I’d been dealing with many of the pathologies within the Muslim community, but as I began to see who was emerging as “spokespersons” for my faith after 9/11, I had to do something; hence the formation of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.

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Counterterrorism and the Integration of Islam in Europe

Author(s): Jytte Klausen / Language(s): English Issue: 25/2010

Samuel Huntington’s theory of a global confrontation between Islam and “the West” is particularly attractive in Europe, where problems with Islamic minorities are regarded as local skirmishes in an international struggle at the heart of which lie values, symbols, and identity, and where conflicts over what to do with Muslims have reopened old debates about the position of religion in society and created unlikely political alliances.

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Europe and the Inter-Religious Dialogue

Author(s): Anca Parmena Olimid / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2006

L'univers chrétien de l'Europe n'est plus un monde d'authentiques chrétiens. On a subi de graves assauts provoquant un retour au paganisme qui a coupé le christianisme de sa base biblique. On se pose la question: l'Europe est-elle été aujourd'hui vraiment chrétienne? L'article envisage l'état du christianisme en Europe, spécialement la relation entre l'Orthodoxisme et le Catholicisme, en présentant l'origine de l'héritage chrétien de celle-ci.

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This Is Not About Mohammed's Turban

Author(s): Michael RADU / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2005

Les caricatures publiées il y a quelques mois par deux journaux occidentaux ont généré une nouvelle représentation de ce que Huntington nommait "le choc des civilisations". L'article ci-dessus décrit brievement les événements, les réactions et leurs conséquences à court et à long terme.

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On Huntington Again

Author(s): Ion DEACONESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2005

"L'opposition entre le monde occidental et plusieurs pays islamoconfuciens provoquera des conflits dans le futur proche", écrivait Samuel P. Huntington en 1993. Les événements des années ont confirmé son hypothèse du "choc des civilisation". Les discussions autour des caricatures parues dans un journal danois sont une bonne occasion pour se rapprocher de sa théorie.

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Islam - religion and politics

Author(s): Anca Popescu ,Aurel PIŢURCĂ / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2005

L'article L'Islam : religion et politique regroupe les principales deux questions que le monde contemporain se pose: la relation de la religion et du politique dans le monde arabe et les incompatibilités concrètes de certaines pratiques liées à la culture islamique avec l'état de nos sociétés. Le but de cet article est de tenter d'aider à comprendre ce qui se déroule actuellement sous nos yeux, car toutes les bases pour comprendre l'Islam se trouvent dans le Coran.

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Le personnalisme spirituel européen de la revendication à l’intégration dans la modernité politique roumaine

Author(s): Anca Parmena Olimid / Language(s): French Issue: 24/2009

Without pretending to bring final conclusions, the present article tries to identify the main talking points of the Romanian modern politics and the research in the field of Church-state relations. A noteworthy approach is taken with the analysis of the incitements and threats against the religious dialogue after the Council Vatican I. In this perspective, the article analyzes the transformations of the European spiritual environment through a parallel between the religious practices in Eastern and Western Europe. A special place is devoted to the analysis of the efficiency of the current institutional system of dialogue. Moreover, the principles of this “New Christian Dialogue” are rigorously highlighted.

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Implicaţiile religioase ale procesului de globalizare

Author(s): Veronica ION / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2009

This paper focuses on the relationship between globalization and religion and the impact of one another in a time where the two can no longer be seen as separate entities. Moreover, the paper proposes to present the challenges globalization rises for the mission of religion and clarify the effects of globalization, both positive and negative, upon religious believes system and practices.

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Why the Supreme Court changes its mind about government aid to religious institutions: it’s a lot more than just republican appointments

Author(s): Douglas LAYCOCK / Language(s): English Issue: 30+31/2011

Over the past two decades, the Supreme Court's approach to government funding of secular services provided by religious institutions has shifted from tight restrictions on aid to general approval of nondiscriminatory aid delivered through mechanisms of private choice. What may be less apparent is that these changes are rooted in tensions that go back to the very beginnings of modern Establishment Clause doctrine.

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Stat, religie și pluralism religios

Author(s): Gelu Călina / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 30+31/2011

Nowadays, the religious pluralism is considered a political principle and is associated with the right to religious freedom or with the right of the religious option. Religious pluralism was mostly regarded as part of the emancipation of all the spheres of life and which was inspired by the ideas of the French Revolution. We can see that it calls for a model of equality of the different religions which is based on the equality of individuals.

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Understanding EU Conditionnality: A Conceptual Framework of National Sovereignty and Religious Freedom (Romania case study)

Author(s): Anca Parmena Olimid / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2011

The present article defines the new balance of the relations between the state and religion. In the context of religion and geopolitics, religious pluralism had an evolution and a destiny which generated in the context of European integration a real challenge equally for the states and the educated. Furthermore, the article argues that European integration represents an element that mustn’t be ignored in the process of interpretation and comprehension of the geopolitics of religion. . Such an observation is articulated in two historical hypothesis: Hypothesis 1: in the first direction, individual freedom is accompanied by cultural pluralism and the obligation „from belonging to supporting”; Hypothesis 2: the second direction which presents the dichotomic analysis of the political neutrality at empirical level. A particular importance in this context is related to collective preferences and national sovereignty .

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The European Union and transnational religion

Author(s): Raluca Dima / Language(s): English Issue: 32/2011

This article intends to deal with the manner in which two institutions representing the supranational dimension of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament, are approaching the issue of the transnational manifestation of religion on the European continent. The study uses concepts and ideas promoted by the French School of Discourse Analysis, particularly Dominique Maingueneau’s theoretical distinctions between „generic scene” and „scenography”. In order to coherently illustrate the manner in which these two categories apply on the analyzed subject, the structure of the paper follows Maingueneau’s distinction. („The European Union and the transnational religion”).

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Struggle for Sacred After EU Integration. Constitutional Developments Concerning Religion and Freedom of Religion in Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria (I)

Author(s): Anca Parmena Olimid / Language(s): English Issue: 33+34/2012

The present article presents the Constitutional provisions affecting religion, religious liberty, and freedom of thought, conscience and religion in Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria. All common constitutional provisions suggest a homogeneous European approach due to historical, political, social and cultural factors needed to accommodate religious pluralism in countries with Orthodox majority. Needless to argues, all four countries unified their own legislation through common compliance with EU legal framework noting that there is little to distinguish between Orthodox European countries in terms of “the core elements”: the understanding of religion, separation of Church and State, freedom of religion, conscience and thought.

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Faith Matters? How Religion Shaped American Presidential Election 2016

Author(s): Marko Veković / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Religion is one of the most important social institutions in the United States of America, and Americans are among the most religious nations in the world. In this paper I explore how religion shaped the American presidential election in 2016. Although the significance of religion in the United States has been acknowledged since the time of Tocqueville, it seems that religion was, once again, overlooked as a factor in pre- and post-elections analyses. The starting point of my paper is the fact that 80% of born again/evangelical Christians say they voted for Donald Trump, while only 16% of them voted for Hillary Clinton. This paper builds on existing empirical data and polls, as well as the analysis of the role and use of religion in the presidential campaign, to show that religion was a important factor in the final results of the election. Besides, in this paper I argue that religion has become an important factor in the United States foreign policy by analyzing the first year of Trump’s presidency.

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Religiousness of Members of Political Parties in Serbia – Political Manipulation or Genuine Belief?

Author(s): Ana Nešić,Zsolt Lazar / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

Transitional changes in economic, political and social contexts have also contributed to the changes within the value framework and religious affiliation. The paper analyzes the results of a survey carried out on the members of political parties concerning their attitudes towards religion and values important in the current social moment in Serbia. For forty years Serbia had been into socialistic system, in which it was not desirable to be religious, so the changes and period of transition that took place largely changed attitudes towards religion. The results indicate an increase in the number of religious people in relation to previous studies, and existence of differences in value judgment among the respondents who identify themselves as religious and those who identify themselves as unbiased and non-religious. Most respondents bind their attitudes to traditional values, not strictly religious, and in behavior, attitudes manifest themselves through religious customs more than beliefs.

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TO EXIST WITH AND FOR THE PEOPLE: PHILOSOPHICO- RELIGIOUS ROOTS AND THE NEED OF A MORAL COMMON FAITH

Author(s): Juan Jesús Álvarez Álvarez / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Historical dynamism, moral and religious dimensions, and even the sacral and soteriological sense of our journey through this world can all be found in Judaism. However, it was Christianity which overcame the temporal and national limitations proper to the Old-Testament conception, providing new traits to the idea of a ‘people’. This idea was at the root of political theories (especially, those of Spaniards Vitoria and Suárez) which decisively influenced Modern Age. Nevertheless, it was subsequently transformed and distorted by Liberal and Marxist traditions. Traditions which, however, have shown themselves incapable of building neither the unity needed by peoples, nor the universality to which our nature points, nor the attention demanded of the neediest human beings. Nowadays, to respond to these challenges in a democratic and pluralist environment, it is essential that a moral common faith, structured around a set of objective principles accessible to everybody (but of a Christian inspiration) exists. In the case of politicians, it demands to exist with and for the people.

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SPIRITUAL BYPASS AND ENTANGLEMENT IN YOGALAND (योगस्तान): HOW NEOLIBERALISM, SOFT HINDUTVA AND BANAL NATIONALISM FACILITATE YOGA FUNDAMENTALISM

Author(s): Patrick McCartney / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Global yoga has become exceptionally popular. The emic description of this global yoga network is often called Yogaland. This paper maps out some of the key topographical features of this metaphysical, social imaginary –scape, and situates the physical body of the global yoga practitioner within a complex entanglement of intersecting social, political, economic and theological ‘worlds’. This paper first explores how the concept of spiritual bypass effects a particular averted gaze towards problematic issues within Yogaland. This leads to the second part of the paper that discusses the fundamental nature of entanglement, which often involves being entangled in worlds the individual would not want, mean to be, or perhaps even be aware, exist. Therefore, this paper identifies ways in which global yoga participants are socialised through their neo-liberal subjectivities to unwittingly support, in an often banal way, a Hindu supremacist ideology; which, in turn, can lead to a type of ‘yoga fundamentalism’.

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