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In this article, I examine religion-state relations and religious pluralism in Turkey in terms of recent changes in the religious landscape. I propose that there is a growing trend in the religious sphere that has resulted in a proliferation of religions, sects and spiritual approaches in Turkey. I argue that although the religious market model might not be applicable to the Turkish religious sphere during the republican era until the 2000s due to the restrictions applied by the state&rsquo ; s authoritarian secularist policies, it is compatible with today&rsquo ; s changing society. Different religious groups as well as spiritual movements have used the democratization process of the 2000s in Turkey as an opportunity to proselytize various faiths and understandings of Islam, with both traditional and modernist forms. In this period, new religious movements have also appeared. Thus, the Turkish religious landscape has recently become much more complicated than it was two decades earlier. I plan for this descriptive work firstly to provide an insight into the history of religious pluralism and state policies in Turkey. Secondly, I will discuss the religious policies of the republican period and, thirdly, I will evaluate recent developments such as the increasing number of approaches in the religious sphere within the scope of the religious market model.

In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today. Explaining that the chosen rhetoric of secular liberals is poorly equipped to argue against religious conservatives, Shiffrin shows that all progressives, religious and secular, must appeal to broader values promoting religious liberty. He demonstrates that the separation of church and state serves to protect religions f.

In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today. Explaining that the chosen rhetoric of secular liberals is poorly equipped to argue against religious conservatives, Shiffrin shows that all progressives, religious and secular, must appeal to broader values promoting religious liberty. He demonstrates that the separation of church and state serves to protect religions f

This article looks at Taiwan's policy towards religion to show that non-Western societies can also achieve what Alfred Stepan called a "twin toleration" wherein the state does not intervene in religious affairs, and religion does not seek to control the state. The paper shows the sets of constraints in which policy-makers struggling for an adequate way to deal with religion operate. They have to choose among a variety of models in democratic societies, to take into account the legacy of the authoritarian era, and to consider the specificities of Taiwan's situation, influenced by a Chinese cultural heritage, Japanese colonialism and observations from other parts of the world. The paper then describes how these constraints have influenced the major stages in the evolution of relations between state and religions in Taiwanese society and then argue that the state had yet to reach a consensus up until 2008 on the legislation of religion because of disagreements between different religious actors. (JCCA/GIGA)

The first annual Community Relations Forum was held on July 22, 2004 and was designed to create a pathway to improving community relations among the citizens of South Carolina. The Commission proposed seven key areas of the South Carolina human relations identified as: business/work environment, law enforcement, government, religion, education, media and neighborhoods.

The general articulation of the issue and its connection with the important research and practice tasks. One of the main tasks in the development of Ukraine as a multi-confessional country with a high level of religious tolerance is to ensure the partnership and harmonic interaction between members of different religious groups and state bodies. The implementation of this task requires the creation of necessary economic, political, ideological and spiritual and cultural tools, and also the existence of effective management institution and its vertical, that would provide effective regulation of state-religious relations in Ukraine. Ukrainian experience shows that the loss of the ability to control the state-religious relations by the state results in interreligious and interfaith conflicts and weakens the national security. These make the study of the tendencies of development of state-religious relations in Ukraine actual. The analysis of the recent publications regarding the issues this article deals with. The problems of state-confessional relations are studied by such scholars as: V. Yelenskii, L. Fylypovych, Y. Khavarivskii, S. Reshetnikov, S. Onyshchuk and others. The collective monographies, published by the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine and by Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion have unified character. The purpose (the objective) of this article. The objectives of the study – to analyze the institutional development of state-church relations in Ukraine and define the interrelation between the improvement of interreligious dialogue, work of interreligious and interchurch organizations and the institutional development of state bodies in this area, to work out proposals to enhance the effectiveness of a state body in the sphere of state-church relations. Define and substantiate priority tasks for the State Service of Ukraine for Ethno-Politics and Freedom of Conscience in the sphere of state-church relations. The key results and the background. There is no state-administrative analysis of the effectiveness of work of the state bodies responsible for the state-religious relations in the process of setting up state-church relations, depending on the status of the body and its subordination. Organizational and operational structure of public administration of state-religious processes is one of the types of management institutions, peculiar to states with a multi-confessional composition of the population. This structure is a set of state bodies in unity of the subjects of jurisdiction and competences, and also relevant organizational interrelations that provides integral public management influence on state-religious relations. Conclusions and the prospects of the further research. One of the problems in the work of state bodies in the sphere of state church relations was constant transfer of competencies between the central bodies of executive power, and also instability of the very body, responsible for this area. Organizational and functional structure of such bodies was created only with central office but without regional offices. There is no religious community that constitutes the majority in the regions of Ukraine, so the absence of local regional offices leads to the abuse of power by local executive bodies that exercise registration mandate. Religious organizations are becoming more active participants in the establishment of civil society in Ukraine and it requires more active monitoring of the work of religious organizations. Also in addition to the monitoring, the body in the sphere of state-religious relations has to overcome that lack of communication between national communities, religious organizations, and state bodies that was in the previous years. Keywords: civil society; church; religion; politics; state; society; state-religious relations. ; У статті систематизовано інституційний розвиток державного управління у сфері державно-релігійних відносин, прослідковано історичні передумови та практичну необхідність в інституційному упорядкуванні цих відносин в Україні і їхній вплив на регіональний рівень. Розглянуто безперервний розвиток інституційних механізмів регулювання державно-релігійних відносин у різноманітних формах та статусах упродовж незалежності України. Визначено та охарактеризовано фактори, що впливали на державно-релігійні відносини. Проаналізовано проблемидержавного управління у сфері державно-релігійних відносин та надано пропозиції щодо їх розв'язання. Визначено та обґрунтовано зв'язок між державною політикою у сфері державно-релігійних відносин та розвитком екуменічних рухів і створенням міжрелігійних об'єднань. Доведено визначальне значення управлінської діяльності інститутів держави, що регулюють державно-релігійні відносини, у процесі зміцнення релігійного плюралізму, охорони прав релігійних меншин та зменшенні міжрелігійних конфліктів. У статті також досліджено вплив релігійного чинника на забезпечення національної безпеки України в умовах нових викликів і гібридних загроз. Показано вплив політичних чинників на діяльність та обсяг повноважень центральних органів виконавчої влади, до відання яких належали державно-релігійні відносини. Ключові слова: громадянське суспільство; церква; релігія; політика, держава; суспільство; державно-релігійні відносини.

The general articulation of the issue and its connection with the important research and practice tasks. One of the main tasks in the development of Ukraine as a multi-confessional country with a high level of religious tolerance is to ensure the partnership and harmonic interaction between members of different religious groups and state bodies. The implementation of this task requires the creation of necessary economic, political, ideological and spiritual and cultural tools, and also the existence of effective management institution and its vertical, that would provide effective regulation of state-religious relations in Ukraine. Ukrainian experience shows that the loss of the ability to control the state-religious relations by the state results in interreligious and interfaith conflicts and weakens the national security. These make the study of the tendencies of development of state-religious relations in Ukraine actual. The analysis of the recent publications regarding the issues this article deals with. The problems of state-confessional relations are studied by such scholars as: V. Yelenskii, L. Fylypovych, Y. Khavarivskii, S. Reshetnikov, S. Onyshchuk and others. The collective monographies, published by the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine and by Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion have unified character. The purpose (the objective) of this article. The objectives of the study – to analyze the institutional development of state-church relations in Ukraine and define the interrelation between the improvement of interreligious dialogue, work of interreligious and interchurch organizations and the institutional development of state bodies in this area, to work out proposals to enhance the effectiveness of a state body in the sphere of state-church relations. Define and substantiate priority tasks for the State Service of Ukraine for Ethno-Politics and Freedom of Conscience in the sphere of state-church relations. The key results and the background. There is no state-administrative analysis of the effectiveness of work of the state bodies responsible for the state-religious relations in the process of setting up state-church relations, depending on the status of the body and its subordination. Organizational and operational structure of public administration of state-religious processes is one of the types of management institutions, peculiar to states with a multi-confessional composition of the population. This structure is a set of state bodies in unity of the subjects of jurisdiction and competences, and also relevant organizational interrelations that provides integral public management influence on state-religious relations. Conclusions and the prospects of the further research. One of the problems in the work of state bodies in the sphere of state church relations was constant transfer of competencies between the central bodies of executive power, and also instability of the very body, responsible for this area. Organizational and functional structure of such bodies was created only with central office but without regional offices. There is no religious community that constitutes the majority in the regions of Ukraine, so the absence of local regional offices leads to the abuse of power by local executive bodies that exercise registration mandate. Religious organizations are becoming more active participants in the establishment of civil society in Ukraine and it requires more active monitoring of the work of religious organizations. Also in addition to the monitoring, the body in the sphere of state-religious relations has to overcome that lack of communication between national communities, religious organizations, and state bodies that was in the previous years. Keywords: civil society; church; religion; politics; state; society; state-religious relations. ; У статті систематизовано інституційний розвиток державного управління у сфері державно-релігійних відносин, прослідковано історичні передумови та практичну необхідність в інституційному упорядкуванні цих відносин в Україні і їхній вплив на регіональний рівень. Розглянуто безперервний розвиток інституційних механізмів регулювання державно-релігійних відносин у різноманітних формах та статусах упродовж незалежності України. Визначено та охарактеризовано фактори, що впливали на державно-релігійні відносини. Проаналізовано проблемидержавного управління у сфері державно-релігійних відносин та надано пропозиції щодо їх розв'язання. Визначено та обґрунтовано зв'язок між державною політикою у сфері державно-релігійних відносин та розвитком екуменічних рухів і створенням міжрелігійних об'єднань. Доведено визначальне значення управлінської діяльності інститутів держави, що регулюють державно-релігійні відносини, у процесі зміцнення релігійного плюралізму, охорони прав релігійних меншин та зменшенні міжрелігійних конфліктів. У статті також досліджено вплив релігійного чинника на забезпечення національної безпеки України в умовах нових викликів і гібридних загроз. Показано вплив політичних чинників на діяльність та обсяг повноважень центральних органів виконавчої влади, до відання яких належали державно-релігійні відносини. Ключові слова: громадянське суспільство; церква; релігія; політика, держава; суспільство; державно-релігійні відносини.

1. Looking into the black box of religiously affiliated organizations -- 2. Resurgence debates, revisited -- 3. Methodical and methodological layout of the analyses -- 4. Religions and human rights in the context of the UN -- 5. Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) -- 6. Pax Romana (ICMICA/IMCS) -- 7. Worldwide trend towards activism -- 8. A re-evaluation of the resurgence debates -- 9. Bibliography.

Das Bild Europas in Japan.

Themen: Bekanntheitsgrad von ASEAN, EG und UN; Charakterisierung der
Europäischen Gemeinschaft als politische, ökonomische Vereinigung oder
Handelsunion; Vergleich der Größe der Population der EG mit den USA;
Vergleich des Lebensstandards der EG-Bürger mit dem der Japaner;
Vergleich des japanischen Handelsvolumens mit der EG und den
Vereinigten Staaten; Kenntnis der EG-Mitgliedsländer; Kenntnis des
Projekts ´Europa 92´; erwartete Auswirkungen dieses Projekts auf die
Beziehungen zwischen Japan und Westeuropa; Begrüßung einer engeren
Kooperation zwischen der EG und Japan in den Bereichen Kultur,
technische Forschung, Energie, politische Kooperation, Umwelt und
Handel; präferierte Medien (Fernsehnachrichten, Seminare,
Veröffentlichungen usw.) über Europa; wichtigste Themen für eine
vermehrte Information über Vorgänge in der EG; wichtigste
Informationsquellen über die Europäische Gemeinschaft; Beurteilung der
Vereinigten Staaten, der Europäischen Gemeinschaft und der
ASEAN-Mitglieder als faire Handelspartner.

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