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The paper aims to analyse the sermons and writings of the bishop and recently canonized saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church Nicholai Velimirović in regard to democracy. Due to his critique of Europe for abandoning Christianity as its centre of civilization, and slipping into the barbarity of the two world wars, some scholars maintained that Velimirović condemns European democracy. The analysis is focused on two periods from Velimirović's life, the first one that comprises the period of his studies abroad, the WWI and interwar period, and the second one which includes the period of the WWII and Velimirović's subsequent emigration in the USA.

The aim of the paper is to analyse the views of Klaus Buchenau, Stefan Rohdewald and Ju- lia Anna Lis on the Serbian Orthodox Church. The paper argues that authors form their attitudes towards Serbia and the Serbian Orthodox Church along the lines of the German press, which portrays the Serbian Church as nationalistic, violent, bigoted and backward.The paper embarks on the task to investigate the motifs of the authors for such negative views on the Serbian Church, by arguing that authors build their scholarly constructs on the political narratives of global Western dominance on the one hand, and on the revision of German historical responsibility for the two world wars on the other hand.

Focusing on three historical examples of a different understanding of
Christian identity, the paper seeks to address the role of contemporary
concepts of sex and gender in the creation of Christian identity. In the
first case study, focused on the literary representations of the Christian
martyrdom from the second and third centuries, special emphasis is placed on
the demand for the ?manly? or ?masculine? way of witnessing faith. The
second historical example relates to the creation of a wider ascetic
movement in the fourth-century Asia Minor, and its specific focus is on
Macrina the Younger. In her Vita, Gregory of Nyssa distinguishes between
Macrina?s gender identity based on her virginity on the one hand, and her
social role as a widow, and ?mother? and ?father? of her monastic community
on the other. Finally, the focus is shifted towards Dionysius the Areopagite
and Maximus the Confessor, whose teachings about ecstasy, as a way to
transcend oneself in the movement towards the loved one, provide the basis
for establishing a theology of marriage and creating a Christian identity
based not on sexual or gender roles, but on the uniqueness of human nature.

The article aims to present how the Byzantine scholar St Maximus the
Confessor perceived the notion of movement (kinesis). St Maximus exposed his
teaching on movement in the course of his refutation of Origenism, which
regarded the movement of created beings away from God as the cause of
breaking the original unity that existed between the Creation and the
Creator. By reversing Origen?s triad ?rest? - ?movement? - ?becoming? into
the triad ?becoming? - ?movement? - ?rest?, St Maximus viewed the movement
toward God as the sole goal of created beings, finding in the supreme being
the repose of their own movement. In addition to the cosmological view of the
movement, St Maximus developed a psychological and an ontological view on
movement, relying on previous Christian tradition. By transforming and
adapting Aristotelian and Neoplatonic notions to the basic principles of
Christian metaphysics, St Maximus creates a new Christian philosophy of
movement which he supported primarily with the views of the Cappadocian
Fathers and Dionysius the Areopagite.

The article aims to present the philosophical argumentation in favor of the
Christian idea of the creation of the world exposed in the work of the
seventh century author Maximus the Confessor. Maximus the Confessor developed
his doctrine of creation on the basis of the philosophical arguments of his
Christian predecessors, above all, Gregory of Nyssa, Nemesius of Emesa and
Dionysius the Areopagite. The core of Maximus? argumentation on the creation
of the world is similar to the position of the Alexandrian philosopher John
Philoponus (6th century), but it is additionally enriched with ideas deriving
from the works of the aforementioned Christian authors. Some of the ideas
that form the scaffolding of Maximus? doctrine of creation are: the fivefold
division of beings, which has its climax in the division between the created
and uncreated nature, the movement of creatures towards God, who alone is the
true goal of their movement, the eternal existence of the world in logoi as
expressions of divine will, God?s providential care not only for the
universal but also for the individual beings and the deification of the
entire created world as the initial purpose of creation. Maximus? views on
creation are conveyed in a language that combines Aristotelian, Stoic and
Neoplatonist philosophical vocabulary.

AbstractThe aim of this study was to examine the integration process with regard to an integration and voluntary re‐settlement project in a rural area in northern Sweden. The project was an attempt to use existing resources in the municipality to attract people with an immigrant background to move from segregated urban environments to a rural municipality. Potential settlers were also recruited abroad. The empirical data were based on eight group interviews with recently arrived immigrant families, and eleven individual interviews with people who played an active role in the project organisation. The results showed that the new families had been integrated into the community to the extent promised by the local authority. The process was facilitated by the resources provided by both parties, but it did not involve significant costs. The immigrants were motivated to move because they wanted a new lifestyle, while the local community was motivated to provide a supportive structure for the new inhabitants because of an awareness of the imminent demographic crisis facing the community due to depopulation. The integration process was strongly influenced by the implicit criteria on which the newcomers were recruited.

Debatten über Sprache und Sprachpolitik haben die Geschichte von Titos Jugoslawien maßgeblich geprägt. Oftmals wurden sie wie Stellvertreterkriege geführt. In einem Staat, der die nationale Frage durch die Einführung des Sozialismus unter der Losung von "Brüderlichkeit und Einheit" gelöst haben wollte, entwickelte sich Sprache zu einem zentralen Austragungsort von Nationalitätenkonflikten. In ihrer breit angelegten, detailreichen Studie weist Ksenija Cvetkovic-Sander nach, dass der Streit um die Sprache von Kroaten, bosnischen Muslimen, Montenegrinern und Serben nicht erst im Gefolge der Jugos