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An analysis of the development of the non-governmental sector in Lithuania reveals two trends: first of all, in the 20 years that have passed since democracy was institutionalized in the country the number of NGOs has grown significantly. Secondly, the number of citizens taking part in their activities remained stable or grew only within the boundaries of confidence interval of representatives surveys of population. After a brief review of these quantitative indicators of the development of the NGO sector in Lithuania, the article focuses on factors explaining the low level of citizens' involvement in NGO activities. It is argued that besides individual and societal level factors, poor NGO efforts to attract new members, their low visibility in the society, inadequate attention to enhancing their public image and low financial capacities and human resources of NGOs constrain the quantitative growth of the NGO sector in the country.

An analysis of the development of the non-governmental sector in Lithuania reveals two trends: first of all, in the 20 years that have passed since democracy was institutionalized in the country the number of NGOs has grown significantly. Secondly, the number of citizens taking part in their activities remained stable or grew only within the boundaries of confidence interval of representatives surveys of population. After a brief review of these quantitative indicators of the development of the NGO sector in Lithuania, the article focuses on factors explaining the low level of citizens' involvement in NGO activities. It is argued that besides individual and societal level factors, poor NGO efforts to attract new members, their low visibility in the society, inadequate attention to enhancing their public image and low financial capacities and human resources of NGOs constrain the quantitative growth of the NGO sector in the country.

An analysis of the development of the non-governmental sector in Lithuania reveals two trends: first of all, in the 20 years that have passed since democracy was institutionalized in the country the number of NGOs has grown significantly. Secondly, the number of citizens taking part in their activities remained stable or grew only within the boundaries of confidence interval of representatives surveys of population. After a brief review of these quantitative indicators of the development of the NGO sector in Lithuania, the article focuses on factors explaining the low level of citizens' involvement in NGO activities. It is argued that besides individual and societal level factors, poor NGO efforts to attract new members, their low visibility in the society, inadequate attention to enhancing their public image and low financial capacities and human resources of NGOs constrain the quantitative growth of the NGO sector in the country.

An analysis of the development of the non-governmental sector in Lithuania reveals two trends: first of all, in the 20 years that have passed since democracy was institutionalized in the country the number of NGOs has grown significantly. Secondly, the number of citizens taking part in their activities remained stable or grew only within the boundaries of confidence interval of representatives surveys of population. After a brief review of these quantitative indicators of the development of the NGO sector in Lithuania, the article focuses on factors explaining the low level of citizens' involvement in NGO activities. It is argued that besides individual and societal level factors, poor NGO efforts to attract new members, their low visibility in the society, inadequate attention to enhancing their public image and low financial capacities and human resources of NGOs constrain the quantitative growth of the NGO sector in the country.

Even though the subject of military service of Jews in the Lithuanian army in the years 1918 to 1940 is not completely new in historiography, many aspects hitherto covered in academic literature remain relevant to this day. The statistics for Jewish soldiers in the interwar Lithuanian army are without doubt one of those aspects. That is why in this article the aim is not just to identify the scale of participation by the Lithuanian army's Jewish soldiers in the Lithuanian War of Liberation, but also to analyse statistical data relating to Jewish soldiers serving in the interwar Lithuanian army in peacetime.

Even though the subject of military service of Jews in the Lithuanian army in the years 1918 to 1940 is not completely new in historiography, many aspects hitherto covered in academic literature remain relevant to this day. The statistics for Jewish soldiers in the interwar Lithuanian army are without doubt one of those aspects. That is why in this article the aim is not just to identify the scale of participation by the Lithuanian army's Jewish soldiers in the Lithuanian War of Liberation, but also to analyse statistical data relating to Jewish soldiers serving in the interwar Lithuanian army in peacetime.

Te article analyses the use of selected keywords in the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union weekly "Trimitas" in 1920–1940. Te study is based on a quantitative method of content analysis, which calculated and compared the use of different key words in "Trimitas" in the interwar period and the changes in consumption over two decades. Quantitative changes are associated with specifc political events, and individual anomalies in the frequency of keyword use are revealed through qualitative content analysis. Te study showed an even distribution of some keywords throughout the interwar period. Te four keywords can be linked to very specifc political processes and changes in relations with Germany and the Ukrainian liberation movement, and the use of keywords for internal use in some cases differed signifcantly in the 1930s and 1940s.

Te article analyses the use of selected keywords in the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union weekly "Trimitas" in 1920–1940. Te study is based on a quantitative method of content analysis, which calculated and compared the use of different key words in "Trimitas" in the interwar period and the changes in consumption over two decades. Quantitative changes are associated with specifc political events, and individual anomalies in the frequency of keyword use are revealed through qualitative content analysis. Te study showed an even distribution of some keywords throughout the interwar period. Te four keywords can be linked to very specifc political processes and changes in relations with Germany and the Ukrainian liberation movement, and the use of keywords for internal use in some cases differed signifcantly in the 1930s and 1940s.

Te article analyses the use of selected keywords in the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union weekly "Trimitas" in 1920–1940. Te study is based on a quantitative method of content analysis, which calculated and compared the use of different key words in "Trimitas" in the interwar period and the changes in consumption over two decades. Quantitative changes are associated with specifc political events, and individual anomalies in the frequency of keyword use are revealed through qualitative content analysis. Te study showed an even distribution of some keywords throughout the interwar period. Te four keywords can be linked to very specifc political processes and changes in relations with Germany and the Ukrainian liberation movement, and the use of keywords for internal use in some cases differed signifcantly in the 1930s and 1940s.

Te article analyses the use of selected keywords in the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union weekly "Trimitas" in 1920–1940. Te study is based on a quantitative method of content analysis, which calculated and compared the use of different key words in "Trimitas" in the interwar period and the changes in consumption over two decades. Quantitative changes are associated with specifc political events, and individual anomalies in the frequency of keyword use are revealed through qualitative content analysis. Te study showed an even distribution of some keywords throughout the interwar period. Te four keywords can be linked to very specifc political processes and changes in relations with Germany and the Ukrainian liberation movement, and the use of keywords for internal use in some cases differed signifcantly in the 1930s and 1940s.

Political freedom cannot be separated from the freedom of conscience, reason and thought. Christian vocation to evangelize concerns the teachers of theology who following theological methods are responsible for seeking suitable ways to preach Christian teaching to the people of their time. The journal SOTER opens this possibility in Lithuania. The aim of the article – to reveal quantitative and qualitative aspects of the scientific topics of the journal. The tasks of the article: 1) to show the importance of theology science in spreading Christian culture; 2) to identify the seeking of wisdom and truth in philosophical tradition; 3) to show the priority of Catholic educa tion; 4) to do research on folk devotions, ethnoculture, Christian art and culture; 5) to give the structural analysis and methodology of the SOTER scientific publications. The Methods: Quantitative, qualitative and statistical methods are used in order to research the topics of the publications and interdisciplinary aspects of them: a detailed analysis of the contents, the programme of mathematical statistics (Microsoft Excel). The freedom of religion is a cultural value. Through culture the Church becomes closer to the nations but as a sign of transcendence, in different cultures it has to preserve the identity of the faith. The care about the objectives of the faith enables the Church to educate clerics and lay people on a high level of theology. The journal SOTER published a lot of articles by the scientists of theology during the ten years. These are the publi-cations on Church history, dogmatic, moral, pastoral, fundamental, ecumenical, spiritual theology, vocations, liturgy, Canon Law, Catholic social teaching. Different theological topics are rather proportional in the journal. [.]

Political freedom cannot be separated from the freedom of conscience, reason and thought. Christian vocation to evangelize concerns the teachers of theology who following theological methods are responsible for seeking suitable ways to preach Christian teaching to the people of their time. The journal SOTER opens this possibility in Lithuania. The aim of the article – to reveal quantitative and qualitative aspects of the scientific topics of the journal. The tasks of the article: 1) to show the importance of theology science in spreading Christian culture; 2) to identify the seeking of wisdom and truth in philosophical tradition; 3) to show the priority of Catholic educa tion; 4) to do research on folk devotions, ethnoculture, Christian art and culture; 5) to give the structural analysis and methodology of the SOTER scientific publications. The Methods: Quantitative, qualitative and statistical methods are used in order to research the topics of the publications and interdisciplinary aspects of them: a detailed analysis of the contents, the programme of mathematical statistics (Microsoft Excel). The freedom of religion is a cultural value. Through culture the Church becomes closer to the nations but as a sign of transcendence, in different cultures it has to preserve the identity of the faith. The care about the objectives of the faith enables the Church to educate clerics and lay people on a high level of theology. The journal SOTER published a lot of articles by the scientists of theology during the ten years. These are the publi-cations on Church history, dogmatic, moral, pastoral, fundamental, ecumenical, spiritual theology, vocations, liturgy, Canon Law, Catholic social teaching. Different theological topics are rather proportional in the journal. [.]

Political freedom cannot be separated from the freedom of conscience, reason and thought. Christian vocation to evangelize concerns the teachers of theology who following theological methods are responsible for seeking suitable ways to preach Christian teaching to the people of their time. The journal SOTER opens this possibility in Lithuania. The aim of the article – to reveal quantitative and qualitative aspects of the scientific topics of the journal. The tasks of the article: 1) to show the importance of theology science in spreading Christian culture; 2) to identify the seeking of wisdom and truth in philosophical tradition; 3) to show the priority of Catholic educa tion; 4) to do research on folk devotions, ethnoculture, Christian art and culture; 5) to give the structural analysis and methodology of the SOTER scientific publications. The Methods: Quantitative, qualitative and statistical methods are used in order to research the topics of the publications and interdisciplinary aspects of them: a detailed analysis of the contents, the programme of mathematical statistics (Microsoft Excel). The freedom of religion is a cultural value. Through culture the Church becomes closer to the nations but as a sign of transcendence, in different cultures it has to preserve the identity of the faith. The care about the objectives of the faith enables the Church to educate clerics and lay people on a high level of theology. The journal SOTER published a lot of articles by the scientists of theology during the ten years. These are the publi-cations on Church history, dogmatic, moral, pastoral, fundamental, ecumenical, spiritual theology, vocations, liturgy, Canon Law, Catholic social teaching. Different theological topics are rather proportional in the journal. [.]

On purpose to analyse a certain part of social world it is useful to apply a concept of field introduced in the field theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Field is a structure of relations between the objective positions occupied by its agents. Lithuanian political science field was chosen as the object of the research. The main problem analysed in the article is the "origin" of different perceptions of political science If only individual experience affects these perceptions, how could we explain the fact that some beliefs are more typical to certain groups of scientists and are not inherent to other groups? The investigation using semi-structuralized survey method was executed. Eighty-eight Lithuanian political scientists took part in the research. Received data was analysed by multiple correspondence analysis technique and other methods of statistical analysis. It was identified that those political scientists who own the highest academic and scientific capital tend to support a vision of political science not oriented towards practical politics. These results might be interpreted as demonstrating the above mentioned interests to impose such perceptions of political science which could be the most useful to the scientists and as confirming the hypothesis of the research. Adapted from the source document.

In this article, a few theoretical aspects of citizens' political sophistication are analyzed: contextual concepts that are used, different conceptions of political sophistication, variables used in the research and factors implementing political sophistication. Most of the academic works on political sophistication come from Western countries, therefore the assumptions used by foreign scholars are applied in the case of Lithuania. Political sophistication is understood as political knowledge held by an individual as well as his/her interest in politics. In the empirical part of this article, the results of the 2008 representative survey data statistical analysis are presented: Lithuanian citizens' political sophistication index and factors that implement the level of political sophistication. One can conclude that the most influential factor that causes the existing level of political sophistication is citizens' age. Relatively more political sophisticated are older, better educated citizens who discuss political issues with others more frequently, use more information sources (radio, Internet, press, TV news) and gain comparatively higher income. Adapted from the source document.