Separation Of Church Research Articles

THE CHURCH SEPARATION OF THE XVII CENTURY AS “NAMEEEEE” CONTENT: PRESENTATION OF THE PROBLEM OF COGNOMINAL EVENTS IN THE CULTURE (on the Material of Texts of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century)

The relevance of the proposed article is to rethink the semiotic trends in the light of a systematic approach. The aim of the work is to apply G.P. Melnikov's developments to the study of the Church separation of the second half of the XVII century as a reproducible event in the secondary modeling system. The General content of the work was prompted by the international scientific training “General and private methodology of philological science” held from 01.04.2009 to 06.04.2009, as well as some generalizations published in the collective monograph “System view as the basis of philological thought” (2016). The texts of the first half of the XVII century are used as materials. By means of observation, description, contextual analysis and elements of philological hermeneutics it is proved that the wholeformed event in culture has its own field of meanings capable of being segmented and having “pre-final” stages of its formation. It is concluded that the Church separation of the second half of the XVII century was a “hinted content”, a projection of individual creative consciousnesses that formed in the supra-system (social consciousness) a request for the implementation of semiotic trends.

Backtalk: Keep religion out of mindfulness

Mindfulness practices have become increasingly common in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The fact that mindfulness originally emerged out of Buddhism raises questions about whether public school teachers using it in their classrooms are violating the separation of church and state. Thomas Armstrong argues that contemporary mindfulness rests on a solid foundation of scientific research and can help students improve their self-regulation, executive functioning, sustained attention, and other school-worthy skills. There is a danger, however, that injecting Buddhist or Hindu-associated gestures, postures, words, or concepts into the teaching may violate the First Amendment. Public school teachers are enjoined to be scrupulously vigilant in presenting mindfulness practices in a totally secular way.

American Religious Liberty: An International Perspective

This Article compares United States religious freedom jurisprudence with prevailing international human rights norms. I distill these international religious freedom norms and evaluate how selected US Supreme Court cases both follow and depart from these norms. Part I identifies six principles of religious freedom defended by the American framers who crafted the First Amendment in 1791: liberty of conscience; free exercise of religion; religious pluralism; religious equality; separation of church and state; and no establishment of religion. Part II summarizes the mostly parallel norms of religious freedom in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the 1981 UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, and the 1989 Vienna Concluding Document. Part III shows how the US Court’s cases on freedom of conscience, free exercise, and religious equality compare favorably to international standards, although some religious minorities have often not fared well. Some of the Court’s cases defending the principle of separation of church and state mesh well with international concerns for religious autonomy. But the Court’s establishment clause cases have gone well beyond international norms in expunging religion from public schools and removing state aid for religious groups and services. The Article concludes that religious freedom remains a strong constitutional value in American law and culture, but it needs to be better integrated; international religious freedom norms offer valuable lessons to that end.

The March 1st Movement and Presbyterian‐Church. Methodist‐Church and Holiness‐Church ―The Principle of ‘separation of church and state’ of foreign missionary in Korea revealed through the March 1st Movement

The March 1st Movement and Presbyterian‐Church. Methodist‐Church and Holiness‐Church ―The Principle of ‘separation of church and state’ of foreign missionary in Korea revealed through the March 1st Movement

Архивные источники о реализации Декрета «Об отделении церкви от государства и школы от церкви» в Казахстане в 1920-е годы (на материалах Акмолинского уезда)

Архивные источники о реализации Декрета «Об отделении церкви от государства и школы от церкви» в Казахстане в 1920-е годы (на материалах Акмолинского уезда)

Un geste fantôme du président. Reconfigurations dans les rapports entre l’État laïc et la religion dans l’ère post-séculière

THE PRESIDENT’S PHANTOM GESTURE: RECONFIGURATIONS BETWEEN A SECULAR STATE AND RELIGION IN TIMES OF POST-SECULARISM The personal attitude of the successive presidents of the Fifth Republic of France to religion, although different, did not violate the general principle of the secularity of the state. Meanwhile, the ambiguity of some gestures of president Emmanuel Macron, visible during the funeral ceremony of Johnny Hallyday, sparked protests among the laicity defenders, especially since it fell exactly on the anniversary of the 1905 law on the separation of Churches from the State. Is it possible to see in the president’s behaviour signs of striving to push the limits of secularity that seemed so far unshakeable? An analysis of Macron’s speeches, forming a kind of political theology, will allow us to feature the outlines of the new post-secular laicity that is emerging during his presidency.

The Cost of the Enlightenment

This Lou Church Memorial Lecture given at the AERC in March 2019 focuses on the outcomes of the Enlightenment: reason, the individual, equality, property rights, the separation of church and state, science and politics freed from religious dogma; but also the effort to remove important mediating institutions such as the Church. What is required to be reintroduced that the Enlightenment destroyed?

Under the Law: The education legacy of Justice John Paul Stevens

Julie Underwood reflects on the legacy of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens after his death in July 2019. During his 35-year term, he served on the court through various ideological configurations — liberal, conservative, and split. As such, he may be remembered for both dissents and majority opinions in numerous areas related to education, particularly in the areas of separation of church and state, desegregation, sex discrimination, and student rights.

Religion and the Unborn under the First Amendment

Assisted reproduction, stem cell research, and abortion are among the primary social controversies in which religion tends to play a conspicuous role. A prominent objection to government restrictions on such unborn-protective practices holds that they involve judgments about nascent human life that hew too closely to religion under constitutional principles that govern the separation of church and state. I argue that this Establishment Clause challenge trades on a misunderstanding of religion and its relationship to ideas about the unborn. It conflates four influences commonly associated with religion. The first three — compulsions of faith, promises of salvation, and obedience to God — are the ones that government may not endorse. But there is a fourth, involving broader visions about what makes society good, that legitimately animates state action. And it is this fourth influence, I will try to show, that best explains most efforts to protect fetuses and embryos. This isn't to say such laws don't have other constitutional problems; just that the First Amendment isn't one.

Victorian Soul-Talk: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic. Julia F. Saville. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xii+307.

<i>Victorian Soul-Talk: Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic</i>. Julia F. Saville. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xii+307.

Отделение Церкви от государства: как это происходило в советской России

Данная статья посвящена обзору и анализу государственных законодательных актов, которыми вводился принцип отделения Церкви от государства в Советской России в 1917-1918 гг. Также приводятся события, сопровождавшие реализацию данного принципа, реакция церковной власти и простых верующих на них. Правовая и историческая оценка данного материала говорит об абсолютной незаконности этих мероприятий и катастрофических последствиях для России. This article is devoted to the review and analysis of state legislative acts, which introduced the principle of separation of Church and state in Soviet Russia in 1917-1918. Described are the events that accompanied the implementation of this principle, the reaction of Church authorities and ordinary believers. Legal and historical evaluation of this material shows the absolute illegality of these measures, their harmfulness and catastrophic consequences for Russia. The author researched to what extent the policy of the Bolsheviks regarding relations with the Church can be considered a realization of the principle of separation of the Church and state. The practice of other countries, which the Bolsheviks did not hesitate to refer to, shows a completely different approach to the implementation of this principle, which did not involve an attempt to completely destroy the Church as an ideological enemy. The principled position of the Local Council of the Orthodox Russian Church of 1917-1918 and His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon, in which they expressed strong condemnation of the practice of introducing this principle, prophetically pointed to the tragic consequences of these actions. Even a century later, some of the consequences are felt. To overcome them it is vital to turn to their very source.

Church-State Separation and Challenging Issues Concerning Religion

In its declaration of principles, the 1987 Philippine Constitution provides for the separation of Church and State. While the principle honors distinctions between temporal and spiritual functions, both Church and State maintain a unique and cooperative relationship geared towards the common good. However, traditional boundaries governing political and religious agency have been crossed during Duterte’s presidency causing a conflict between leaders of government and the Catholic hierarchy. In the process, the conflict has resurfaced issues about the principle of Church-State separation. What accounts for the changing Church-State relations in the Philippines? How will this conflict affect State policy towards religion, religious freedom, and religious education? In the present study we discuss the present context of the Church-State separation principle in the Philippines. We argue that institutional relations between Church and State remain stable despite the Duterte-Catholic Church conflict.

Church, State and American Evangelicalism: A Political Missiology for the Poor

Abstract How should the American church tackle domestic poverty, and how should US faith-based aid organizations approach the change process in developing countries? These questions about aspects of the church in mission are best answered in light of a wider historical debate about the relationship between church and state. In this article, I explore the history of this relationship and argue that the radical separation of church and state favored by conservative evangelicals in the United States, harms the disadvantaged both domestically and abroad. Just as governments should not abrogate their responsibility to the poor, Christian institutions should not shrink from their God-given task of holding secular, political authorities to account.

The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: Republican Catholicism and Irish Catholic Apologetics

ABSTRACT This article analyzes the development of a distinctly American Catholic identity among Philadelphia's Catholics in the wake of the 1844 Philadelphia riots. It offers a critique of historians' theses that by the nineteenth century a largely immigrant Catholic population had rejected the Revolutionary-era synthesis between republicanism and Catholicism. The ideological battle following the riots reveals the ways in which Philadelphia's Catholics challenged their nativist opponents by utilizing republican rhetoric. Catholics' republicanism was much more liberal than nativists' classical republicanism; as such, they emphasized the protection of minority rights and the separation of church and state.

A New Look at the First Anti-Church Decrees of the Soviet Government. Review of: Vladimir Vorob’ev and L.B. Miliakova, eds. 2016. Otdelenie tserkvi ot gosudarstva i shkoly ot tserkvi v Sovetskoi Rossii, Oktiabr’ 1917–1918: Sbornik dokumentov [Separation of church from state and school from church in Soviet Russia, October 1917–1918: Collection of Documents]. Moscow: PSTGU (in Russian). — 944 pp.

A New Look at the First Anti-Church Decrees of the Soviet Government. Review of: Vladimir Vorob’ev and L.B. Miliakova, eds. 2016. Otdelenie tserkvi ot gosudarstva i shkoly ot tserkvi v Sovetskoi Rossii, Oktiabr’ 1917–1918: Sbornik dokumentov [Separation of church from state and school from church in Soviet Russia, October 1917–1918: Collection of Documents]. Moscow: PSTGU (in Russian). — 944 pp.

Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I by Anita Rasi May

Reviewed by: Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I by Anita Rasi May Michelle Beauclair May, Anita Rasi. Patriot Priests: French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I. UP of Oklahoma, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8061-5908-9. Pp. 162. Published in the centennial year marking the end of the Great War, Patriot Priests contributes an intriguing new layer to the memory of that devastating conflict—the personal reflections of thirty-three French priests and seminarians drafted in World War I. This exploration, meticulously researched at the Archives nationales, the Archives de l'Armée de la terre, and the Archives historiques de l'Archevêché de Paris, is the first to feature clergymen's own journal entries, letters, and memoirs to recount the extraordinary contributions of these men of peace in a time of war. It might appear incongruent that priests, "schooled for the altar rather than the battlefield" (4), should serve as soldiers. It is all the more remarkable when viewed in the context of the fraught church-state relationship at the time of their conscription. Anita Rasi May provides an enlightening overview of the shifting power struggle between the Catholic Church and the government of the Third Republic that culminated in the expulsion of several religious orders from France and the separation of church and state in 1905. [End Page 236] This sets the stage for understanding why, after decades of scorn, suspicion, and exile, clergymen and their superiors viewed the call to arms as a chance to prove their loyalty to France. The absence of any hesitation to sacrifice themselves for their country and for a cause that they felt was noble, just, and righteous is one of the most salient features of the priests' diary entries. While many of these men of the cloth initially hoped their wartime service might win converts to the faith, their writings reveal that over time they were grateful simply to offer their support, whether moral, physical, or spiritual. The Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a stretcher-bearer in the war, wrote: "All this, I hope, will gradually establish me as the priest-comrade to whom a man can turn when things go wrong" (53). Poignant passages elucidate the steadfast dedication of chaplains to provide comfort and solace to the gravely wounded, to assist families in locating their fallen sons, and to ensure that soldiers' sacrifices would not be forgotten, but rather be memorialized after the war. Patriot Priests illustrates how, against the odds, the priests' faithful fight brought them back into French society, earned them a measure of respect, and renewed their sense of connectedness and national identity. Compassionately written with clear prose and careful organization, this text assumes knowledge of the lexicon and hierarchy of the Catholic Church and familiarity with major events in nineteenth and early twentieth-century French history. For educators and students of modern French civilization and culture, the study of World War II is often privileged over that of World War I. Patriot Priests addresses this curricular imbalance by providing readers with personal stories and powerful voices to bring the narrative of that more distant but no less important conflict to life. Michelle Beauclair Seattle Pacific University (WA) Copyright © 2019 American Association of Teachers of French

Fundamentalne zasady instytucjonalnych relacji państwa z kościołami i innymi związkami wyznaniowymi w świetle art. 25 Konstytucji RP z 1997 r.

The Article 25 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland from 1997 includes the most essential principles which regulate institutional relations between state and churches and other denominations. The first paragraph of this Article includes the rule of equal rights of churches and other religious organizations. The second paragraph introduces impartiality of public authorities in relation to religious, philosophical and ideological beliefs, but also ensures freedom of expression of them in public life. The third paragraph determines the rule of autonomy and mutual independence, but the Constitution indicates that state and religious organizations should cooperate with each other for common good and individual good. Furthermore, the relations between the Republic of Poland and the Roman Catholic Church are determined by international treaty (the concordat) concluded with the Holy See, and by statute. Whereas the relations between the Republic of Poland and other churches and religious organizations are determined by statutes adopted pursuant to agreements concluded between their appropriate representatives and the Council of Ministers. To summarize, the Republic of Poland is secular state. Polish model of separation of church and state is named friendly (coordinated) separation in which religious organizations take part in public life as impartial participants of the civil society.

Relative Impermeability of the Wall of Separation: Marriage Equality in the Philippines

AbstractThe Philippine doctrine on the separation of church and state, while rooted in American constitutional tradition, continues to show vestiges of Spanish colonial rule. The Philippines adopted the union of church and state for three and a half centuries as a Spanish colony, but became a secular state after it was ceded to the United States of America in 1898. The wall of separation has since been maintained in all subsequent Philippine constitutions, only to be compromised in statutes and daily life. That conflict is most evident in marriage, a legal institution openly shaped by canon law. Falcis v Civil Registrar-General, the marriage equality petition pending before the Philippine Supreme Court, seeks to end that practice. But note the irony: while the US Supreme Court in Obergefell v Hodges secularizes marriage and disconnects it from religion, Falcis takes an opposing route in anchoring marriage equality on religious freedom. This article looks at the prospect of that gambit. By contrasting the legal and theological contexts from which Obergefell and Falcis stem, the article shows how the demands of same-sex union and church-state separation are tightly intertwined.

Affect as a driver to religious‐based consumer boycotts: Evidence from qualitative and quantitative research in the United States

AbstractWhile a fair amount of research has examined consumer boycotts, prior research has yet to adequately examine the interaction of religious boycotts and backing by religious leaders influence consumption behavior, particularly in locations where there is a separation of church and state (a novel contribution that our paper addresses). Through a focus group and an experimental study, this research examines how boycotts that are encouraged by religious leaders versus those that are not influence consumption. Specifically, the focus groups show that refutational defenses and supportive defenses induce participation. The experimental study finds that participation in religiously motivated boycotts is greater for consumers that are more religious and when backed by religious leader support. Additionally, negative attitudes toward a business mediate this relationship. Discussion builds on the literature on consumer boycotts, inoculation theory, and value attribution theory as well as provides implications for marketing practitioners.

De vrijheid van onderwijs en de scheiding van kerk en staat

This paper analyses the tensions perceived in the political debate between the freedom of education and the status of publicly funded denominational schools in the Netherlands on the one hand and the limitations flowing from the principles of separation of church and state and state neutrality on the other. It is argued that public funding of these schools is not incompatible with these principles – attention is drawn to a recent law which ensures some structural funding of religious instruction even on public schools – and that there are no good reasons – perceived risks with regard to issues of quality, segregation, indoctrination – to put an end to such funding.