Religious Communities and Civil Society in Europe

Analyses and Perspectives on a Complex Interplay, Volume II

Rupert Graf Strachwitz

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110673142
• Subtopic: Civics & Citizenship
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Die Publikationsreihe 'Religious Communities and Civil Society in Europe' betrachtet das europäische Verhältnis von Religionsgemeinschaften und die Zivilgesellschaft, welche in jüngster Zeit an Bedeutung gewonnen hat. Angesichts der Entwicklung und Konsolidierung eines Konzepts von Zivilgesellschaft als eigenständiger Arena des kollektiven Handelns in der Gesellschaft, erhält die Frage der Positionierung der Glaubensgemeinschaften eine neue Dimension. In welchem Maße können und wollen sie über die rituelle Heilsvermittlung hinaus gesellschaftliche Partizipations-, Integrations-, Sozialisations- oder Interessenartikulationsfunktionen – und damit genuin zivilgesellschaftliche Aufgaben – übernehmen? Im Rahmen des der Publikationsreihe zugrundeliegende Forschungsprojekts gingen Autorinnen und Autoren unterschiedlicher Disziplinen in mehreren Europäischen Ländern der Fragen nach: Wie es um die Zuordnung der Religionsgemeinschaften steht und ob sie, möglicherweise sogar unabhängig von ihrem Rechtsstatus, der Zivilgesellschaft neuer Definition zuzuordnen sind?
Der zweite Band dieser Reihe betrachtet an zwei Länderbeispielen Polens und der Ukraine das Verhältnis von Religionsgemeinschaften und Zivilgesellschaft im postsowjetischen Raum. Zudem werden evangelische Gemeinden in lokalen Zivilgesellschaften in Deutschland, so wie die Beziehungen zwischen Religionsgemeinschaften und Zivilgesellschaft zum Staat in Frankreich und Großbritannien beleuchtet. Des Weiteren wird das Verhältnis von katholischen Religionsgemeinschaften und der Zivilgesellschaft, sowie die sozialpolitische Rolle der Hermeneutik heiliger Texte betrachtet. Als außereuropäische Perspektive auf den Fragenkomplex wird in Form einer Fallstudie, der Aufstieg der politischen Macht der brasilianischen Evangelikalen dargestellt und religiös politische Ideologien am Bespiel des Islams behandelt.

Authors and Contributors

Frank Adloff studied Sociology, Economics and Philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Jena and FU Berlin. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the FU Berlin. He was Professor at the FU Berlin and at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and is currently Professor of Sociology at the Department of Socioeconomics at University Hamburg. Frank Adloff is member of the editorial board of “Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie” and of the book series “Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie”. His fields of expertise are Social Theory, Sociology of Religion, Philanthropy as well as Gift and Reciprocity.

Edith Archambault is Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Vice-President of the “Association pour le développement des données sur l’Économie sociale” (ADDES). Furthermore, she was local associate for France of the Johns Hopkins International Comparison of the Nonprofit Sector program, phase 1 and 2, then member of the advisory committee for the UN Handbook of the non-profit Institutions in the system of national accounting and the ILO Manual on the measurement of volunteering. She is author of more than 250 publications and officer in the orders of the Légion d’Honneur and the Merit. She has a life-long record in researching the third sector in France and in comparative perspective.

Jacquineau Azétsop SJ was ordained priest in 2003. He received a degree in Theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology and a degree in Public Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and continued to a Doctorate in Public Health and Social Ethics at Boston College School of Arts and Sciences. Since 2014, he holds courses at Gregoriana University in structural interventions, methodological courses and teaches sociology of health. Next year he will run courses in sociology of inequality, in sociology of suffering and a seminar on Paolo Freire.

Alejandro Crosthwaite OP is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Catholic Social Teaching, Political Ethics, and Faith/Religion and Culture, Mass Media, and Film Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS) at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome. He completed his doctoral studies in Theology and Society at Marquette University, Milwaukee, concentrating on Social Ethics and Catholic Social Thought as well as Mass Media studies focusing on the interaction between public theology, culture, film and social transformation.

Elizabeth Evenden-Kenyon is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. Elisabeth is researching upon book production and the dissemination of propaganda in England, Portugal and Spain during the early modern period. She lectures on Chris-to-Islamic relations, early modern propaganda literature, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and book history. She is European Editor for the journal “Arts and Humanities in Higher Education” and active member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association.

Rocco D’Ambrosio is full Professor of Political Philosophy and Political Ethics in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and Professor of Ethics of Public Administration at the Department of Personnel Training of the Ministry of the Interior, Rome. He is also director of Cercasi un fine (“Seeking for a Goal”), an Italian organizattion for people of various religions and cultures united in seeking a more just, peaceful and beautiful society. He was one of the associates in the Maecenata Institute’s “Religious Communities and Civil Society in Europe” project.

Anna Domaradzka is Associate Director for Research and International Cooperation as well as Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw. Until 2012 she was a Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar conducting the research project “Urban space as a context of neighbourhood civic activities influencing quality of life of inhabitants”. Her areas of expertise are civil society, social movements, urban movements, urban sociology, gender sociology, sociology of science and education.

Philipp Kreutzer studied Social Science at University of Trier and Humboldt University Berlin. From 2016 until 2019 he worked for the Maecenata Foundation as a student assistant and participated in research projects concerning migration and civil society. Furthermore, he works as a trainer for political education and offers workshops concerning topics like flight, migration and globalization.

Vasilios N. Makrides studied theology at the University of Athens (1979–1983) and religious studies, history of religions and sociology of religion at Harvard University (1984–1986), as well as at the University of Tübingen (1986–1991), where he also obtained his doctorate in 1991. He taught at the University of Thessal...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Content
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Catholic Religious Community and Civil Society: Some Theological and Sociological Considerations
• The Catholic Church and Civil Society: An Introduction
• A Note on Religious Political Ideology: The Case of Islam
• The Rise in Political Power of Brazil’s Evangelicals: A Case Study
• Protestant Congregations in Local Civil Societies in Germany
• The Specificities of Relations between the State, Religious Communities and Civil Society in France
• Religion and Modern Politics Understanding the Impact of the Remain and Leave Campaigns, and of Faith Demographics
• Civil Cinderella: religion and civil society in Poland
• Religious Communities in the Shadow of Populist Politics
• Eastern Christian Religious Communities and Development of Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Space: the Ukrainian Case
• Christian Communities, Civil Society and Civic Engagement in East and West: Convergences and Divergences
• The Socio-political Role of the Hermeneutics of Sacred Texts: the example of the Decalogue
• Durkheim, Mauss, and Shils: The Sacred of Civil Society
• Whither Religious Communities? Are They or Are They Not Part of a Political System – and if They Are, What Part of It Do They Belong to?
• Religious Communities and Civil Society in Europe Report on the Final Conference, Rome, 22/23 November 2018
• Bibliography
• Authors and Contributors