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From Desecularization to Sacralization of the Political Language: Religion and Historiosophy in Vladimir Putin’s Preparations for War

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Składanowski M. , Smuniewski C.

Verbum Vitae

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2022

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tom 40

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nr 4

869-891

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This article aims to analyze religious and mystical elements contained in Putin’s public statements by referring to selected examples characteristic of contemporary Russian identity politics. In order to demonstrate the importance of religious and mystical threads in Putin’s speeches, we chose five specific cases. The analysis of these statements indicates that religious and mystical motifs in Putin’s language are an attempt at self-creation for the purpose of domestic policy. We claim that this self-creation is more of an effort to strengthen Putin’s public support than proof that he borrows patterns for shaping Russia’s political life from the Russian religious and political tradition. Putin’s rhetoric is not so much a desire for an axiological renewal of Russian politics but an attempt to search for the new legitimization of the power system he created in confrontation with the West.

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„Nejpokrokovější církevní pracovník“ v zajetí průměrnosti

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Bolom-Kotari S.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2016

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tom 114

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nr 4

1027-1037

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In 2015, the book “Nejpokrokovější církevní pracovník”. Protestantské církve a Josef Lukl Hromádka v letech 1945–1969 (“The Most Progressive Church Worker”. The Protestant Churches and Josef Lukl Hromádka between 1945 and 1969) was published, written by church historians Peter Morée and Jiří Piškula. This study uses their reflections to consider the nature of historiography, as well as the Church and protestant society, to which renowned Czech theologian, J. L. Hromádka (1889–1969) – known for his linking of theological identity with the political regime – declared himself. Amongst other issues, discussion is made of to what extent the changes to the geopolitical map in the second half of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century have affected the legitimacy of Hromádka’s programme of securing a place for Christianity in socialist society.

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How Political Is the Kantian Church?

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Palmquist S.

Diametros

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2020

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tom 17

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nr 65

95-113

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Commentators who lament that Kant offers no concrete guidelines for how to set up an ethical community typically neglect Kant’s claim in Religion that the ethical state of nature can transform into an ethical community only by becoming a people of God—i.e., a religious community, or “church.” Kant’s argument culminates by positing four categorial precepts for church organization. The book’s next four sections can be read as elaborating further on each precept, respectively. Kant repeatedly warns against using religious norms to control people. Accordingly, he explicitly forbids the true church from adopting any standard form of political governance; it must aim to be radically non-political. Nevertheless, churches organized according to Kant’s non-coercive theocratic model contribute something essential to the ultimate political goal of achieving perpetual peace and an end to war: by approaching the ultimate ethical goal (the highest good), the true church offers an antidote to normative fragmentation.

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Postsekularismus po česku? Ne/religiozita současné české společnosti mezi Východem a Západem

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Nešpor Z. R.

Střed. Časopis pro mezioborová studia Střední Evropy 19. a 20. století. / Centre. Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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2018

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tom 10

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nr 1

101-118

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The article contributes to critical analyses of contemporary European religion and (rather loose) conceptualisations of post-secularism. Return of religion into the public space, which may be called post-secularism, is visible and growing even in predominantly out churched Czech Republic. However, the very concept of post-secularism is too broad to be used as an analytical category. The author thus tries to operationalise it using functional differentiation between (social types of) churches and Davie’s idea of vicarious religion.Using empirical studies on religion, the author outlines the varying public roles of religion and religiosity in contemporary Western and post-Communist European countries, and emphasizes the middle position of the Czech Republic.However, the anomalous position will hardly persist forever. The author is convinced that Czech churches and especially their leaders are currently facing a choice between the Western and Eastern models of public religious life and church-state relations.

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The Church in Sweden. Secularisation and Ecumenism as Challenges

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Ekenberg A.

Polonia Sacra

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2016

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tom 20

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nr 2(43)

23-45

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Sweden is one of the most secularised countries in the world. The article treats, against a historical background, two main challenges for the Christian church in the contemporary situation: secularisation as such and ecumenism. The dominant strategies of the majority church, the formerly established Lutheran church, when it comes to encountering radical secularisation are discussed, as are the difficulties in forming a common Christian vision of the situation and of common strategies for evangelisation. Much space is devoted to the so‑called Folk Church ideology governing the policy of the Lutheran church. The urgent need for new ways of witnessing to the Gospel is stressed.

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Szwecja należy do najbardziej zsekularyzowanych krajów na świecie. W oparciu o dane historyczne artykuł ukazuje dwa najważniejsze wyzwania Kościoła w obecnej sytuacji: przeciwdziałanie sekularyzacji jako takiej i ekumenizm. Autor podejmuje dyskusję nad głównymi działaniami Kościoła, większościowego Kościoła luterańskiego wobec radykalnej sekularyzacji, utrudniającej wypracowanie jednolitej wizji chrześcijaństwa w aktualnej sytuacji oraz wspólnej strategii ewangelizacyjnej. W opracowaniu wiele miejsca poświęcono tzw. ideologii Kościoła narodowego, którą głównie kieruje się Kościół luterański. Podkreślono pilną potrzebę nowych sposobów dawania świadectwa Ewangelii.