The Church-State relationships in EU Member States are in a process of a radical transformation. This is the result of a rapid political integration and also of the major transformations of the modernity. Religion is still part of the European public space even if, according to modernity premises, it should be only a private matter. According to Max Weber and other authors, secularization diminishes the role of the religion in society. However, these theories are being contested in recent years, due to the interpretation of statistical data and to the emergence of fundamentalist religious movements spreading around the world. Consequently, secularization is a tendency and not an "iron law". As regards the current role of the religion, Silvio Ferrari developed the theory according to which there is a common European model. This model does not exist yet, but certainly we live in an era defined by the continuous searching of such a model. There is no European identity without common values. Some of these values, like toleration, do have a profound religious foundation. European integration is based on the action of different actors, including interest groups located in Brussels. The Churches and the religious organizations are also part of this category of actors and they try to be part of a process by which a common space for consultation will emerge.
Any reflection on the relationship between religion and politics in the Catholic thought cannot do without reminding the Augustinian distinction between the civitas Dei and civitas terrena. The goal and foundation of any just political community should be the orientation to wards the common good. In the contemporary catholic thought, Johann Baptist Metz proposes a political theology revolving around the concepts of the value of the human person, the necessary refusal, on the part of the Church, of any mundane ideology and the necessary use of the socially critical potential of theological thought. Hans Küng criticizes any politicization of theology. He insists on the development of an internal pluralism within the Church and advocates a self-limitation of the magisterial intervention in the world in the name of a necessary "eschato logical reserve". Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict the XVIth , invested with the magisterial authority, relies heavily on official documents of the Catholic social doctrine. He emphasizes the necessity of founding the state on the central value of justice and its acting according to the principle of subsidiarity. In this context, the Christian faith and the Church in particular may have a pedagogical role, as it may guide reason to follow the right priorities. All three thinkers agree on the public significance of the Christian vision of society and on the fact that it may help society both by its critical and by its constructive dimension.
Pierre Manent is viewed as a French thinker that develops in modern times the liberal tradition of political thinking. One of the most important issues of Manent's thinking that was not enough underlined it is the relationship between religion an politics and how this evolved from the beginning of Christianity until the main consequences of modernity. Manent view on religion and politics is the core of this paper analysis. The main contributions of Manent, such as Naissances de la politique moderne. Machiavel, Hobbes, Rousseau (1977), Histoire intellectuelle du lib.ralisme (1987) La cit. de l'homme (1994), Cours familier de philosophie politique (2001), La raison des nations. R.flections sur la d.mocratie en Europe (2006) are analyzed from this perspective. Our conclusion is that in the way Manent deals with the relationship between politics and religion there are some constants that may be found in all his work. These are: the relationship between the Church and the different forms of political organization in Europe (Civitas, Imperium, monarchy); the fact that Christianity is one of the few current relevant concepts for political, due to the failure of totalitarian ideologies; the idea that secularization in Europe is not irreversible; we live in "an age of separations", and Church-State is one of these separations; we witness the religion transformation process and the .tat la.que cannot survive to .tat-nation; the role of Islam in modern societies and his perpetual finding of a political form; the relationship between Judaism, state and nation; the issue of the Christian identity of Europe.
Based on analysis of condition of different confessions, the religious situation in occupied Donbass is researched. It turns out that religious policy in self-proclaimed republics is heading towards, on one side, to consolidation of Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, but on the other side, to crowding outof other religions from occupied territories. Through the help of Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate the idea of the so-called "Russian World" is implemented among different categories of population. Russian Ortho- dox Church was involved into Donbass conflict and its head, Patriarch Cyril. By hiding Russian aggression in Ukraine, he is trying to picture it as "civil conflict". Pro-Russian positionas to the Donbas developments is also taken by a part of bishops of Ukrainian Orthodox Church clergy. It reinforced negative attitude of Ukrainian population and lead to acceleration of the transition of religious communities under the author- ity of the Kyiv Patriarchate. Attempts of the orthodox religious communities to change their inferiority are related to the reinforcement of their Pro-Ukrainian positions. It is stated that in occupied Donbass territo- ries, Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church turned out to be in a complicated situation. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Protestant religious organizations. Considering a difficult state of faithful Catholics in the breakaway republic, Vatican, the Pope provides them material aid and spiritual support. Since the policy of «DNR» and «LNR» is aimed at complete eradication of "sects" of Donbas, the actions of the occupation authorities significantly affected Protestant believers. Due to organizational frag- mentation,in occupied territories of Donbassfaithful Muslimsfailed to develop a common political position. The article states that harassment and persecution of various religious organizations, clergymen, leaving their followers to safe areas in the occupied territories of Donbass greatly diminished religious network, the number of communities, churches occupancy. The normalization of religious and church life in the region is inextricably linked with the cessation of armed conflict and its de-occupation. ; На основі аналізу становища різних конфесій досліджується релігійна ситуація на окупованих територіях Донбасу. Показується, що релігійна політика в самопроголошених республіках спрямована на утвердження православ'я Московського патріархату, утиски і переслідування інших релігій, які перебувають на проукраїнських позиціях, витіснення їх з контрольованих сепаратистами територій. Нормалізація релігійно-церковного життя в цьому регіоні пов'язується з припиненням військового конфлікту і деокупацією захоплених територій на сході України.
This article intends to analyze the role of religion in the public sphere in Habermas's theory. Despite the fact that the concept has been launched in a book published in 1961, only in 2005 the well-known German thinker has dealt explicitly with this issue. Even the critics of his public sphere model do not mention the lack of religion from the whole paradigm. Some of Habermas writings related to religion prior to 2005 are discussed. The role of religion in the public sphere is, according to Habermas, related with the issue of religious freedom and the State- Church separation, a model opposed to French laicïté. For Habermas, the state must not only be neutral to the religious discourse, but it must also encourage the participation of political organizations to public life. Another issue that is discussed by Habermas is the relationship between religious majorities and minorities. Habermas does assume a middle position between laicïté and the refuse of the modernity-imposed borders between religion and politics. The article takes an insight into the way Charles Taylor deals with the role of religion in the public sphere, a helpful argument for showing that the debate on this issue is only at the beginning.
Introduction. The analysis of new religious movements (NRMs), identification of the defects in the religious typology and classification of native faith as "neo-religion" are conducted by the author. The research shows the diversity of the followers purposes' of traditional and new religious movements and their ideological systems (national – international), reveals the opposites of these religions in terms of the world and God/Gods (natural – artificial; mythological – historical, polytheism – monotheism, immanence – transcendence), etc., which enabled the author to find out the criteria for religious classifications. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to clear up the basic principles of theology, ideals, and ideologies of New Age and native faith of the Slavs, to determine their fundamental opposition. It's logically motivated the fallacy of classification the native faith to "neo-paganism" as a segment of NRMs. Results. It is concluded that native faith was and still is a traditional autochthonous natural religion of the Ukrainians, which has long existed in hidden forms in parallel with the official Christianity. Only in a democratic society it has been given the possibility of its revival as officially recognized ethno-religious (national) confession. On the example of the creation of NRM, the author states the use of the methods of manipulation with human consciousness that have the features of "religious weapons" as one of the tools of information war. Originality and conclusion. There is an urgent need for state's awareness of the fact of total world informational war to create its own self-protective philosophy of antiglobalism. So in this philosophy a significant importance will be given to scientific developments of native faith and ideology of national self-preservation to prevent the foreign intervention in autochthonous spiritual culture.
The phenomenon of religion in public space is nowadays complemented by symbolic and informational factors that, through certain mechanisms, play a significant role in political processes. This is related to the formation of the political identity of the nation, in which the religious component becomes a certain marker that splits or unites society. Even though politics and religion have their own public fields, there is a struggle for influence and expansion of their public field between politics and religion in most European countries of the East. With the aim to engage citizens in the discourse of political or religious, the political and ecclesiastical elite mentally forces individuals to balance on the verge of the political and religious and turns them into participants of political processes. At least, exactly this takes place in the modern history of Ukraine. The loss of state territories and military events in the East have given rise to the Ukrainian discourse of Tomos, which, through the context of the war, established a new marker of Ukrainian identity. Perceiving public religion as a field for public dissent, Ukrainian society has found itself in internal and external confrontation: between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and the official policy of the power during Petro Poroshenko's presidency – the level of the conflict was "power-church"; internal conflict between Ukrainian Orthodox denominations when, due to the signed Tomos, they united to form a unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) – the level of the conflict was "churchchurch"; between the official policy of Russia, which supports the activities of the UOC-MP and is recognized by official Ukrainian authorities as the military aggressor of Ukraine (mostly during P. Poroshenko's presidency and less during V. Zelensky's presidency) – the level of the conflict is "power-power". The discourse of Tomos in Ukraine has provoked not only interconfessional and political confrontation. It influenced confidence in the church as a moral institute because, on the one hand, we've had a "church of the aggressor state" (UOC-MP) and an "illegal church" (OCU), and on the other hand, there were "Orthodox" and "schismatics". This has mentally widened the gap between the East and the West of Ukraine. An analysis held based on data from the Razumkov Center, official statistics of religious organizations in Ukraine, as well as judicial acts, testifies that this gap is formed along a territorial line. Therefore, S. Huntington's theory of a global policy developed along the cultural line finds support. ; Формування політичної ідентичності нації, де релігійна складова стає певним маркером, за яким відбувається розмежування або об'єднання суспільства, багато в чому пов'язано з публічним простором. Не зважаючи на те, що політика та релігія мають власні публічні поля, у більшості європейських країн Сходу відбувається боротьба за вплив та розширення власного публічного поля між політикою та релігією. З метою залучення громадян у дискурс політичного та релігійного, політична та церковна еліти ментально змушують суб'єкта балансувати на кордоні політичного та релігійного й перетворюють його на учасника власних політичних процесів. Втрата територій, військові події на Сході країни та президентські вибори 2019 р. створили український дискурс Томосу, який через контекст війни встановив новий маркер української ідентичності. Українське суспільство опинилося на лінії трьох протистоянь: 1) між Українською православною церквою (Московського патріархату) (на сьогодні УПЦ) та офіційною політикою влади часів президента Петра Порошенка – рівень конфлікту «владацерква»; 2) внутрішній конфлікт між українськими православними конфесіями, коли постало питання створення єдиної православної церкви України (ПЦУ) завдяки отриманню Томосу – рівень конфлікту «церква-церква»; 3) між офіційною політикою Росії, яка підтримує діяльність УПЦ (МП) й визнана військовим агресором України та офіційною зовнішньою політикою української влади (у більшості часів П. Порошенка та у меншості В. Зеленського) – рівень конфлікту «влада-влада». Дискурс Томосу в Україні спричинив не тільки міжконфесійне та політичне протистояння. Він підняв питання публічної релігії в умовах релігійних протистоянь. Аналіз інформації, що було проведено у 2020 році на основі даних Центру Разумкова, офіційної статистики релігійних організацій в Україні (на 2020 рік), а також судових актів, свідчить про територіальну лінію розлому, яка представлена у цій статті у вигляді карти України. Що підкріплює теорію С. Гантінгтона про глобальну політику, яка вибудовується за культурною лінією розколу.
The phenomenon of religion in public space is nowadays complemented by symbolic and informational factors that, through certain mechanisms, play a significant role in political processes. This is related to the formation of the political identity of the nation, in which the religious component becomes a certain marker that splits or unites society. Even though politics and religion have their own public fields, there is a struggle for influence and expansion of their public field between politics and religion in most European countries of the East. With the aim to engage citizens in the discourse of political or religious, the political and ecclesiastical elite mentally forces individuals to balance on the verge of the political and religious and turns them into participants of political processes. At least, exactly this takes place in the modern history of Ukraine. The loss of state territories and military events in the East have given rise to the Ukrainian discourse of Tomos, which, through the context of the war, established a new marker of Ukrainian identity. Perceiving public religion as a field for public dissent, Ukrainian society has found itself in internal and external confrontation: between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) and the official policy of the power during Petro Poroshenko's presidency – the level of the conflict was "power-church"; internal conflict between Ukrainian Orthodox denominations when, due to the signed Tomos, they united to form a unified Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) – the level of the conflict was "churchchurch"; between the official policy of Russia, which supports the activities of the UOC-MP and is recognized by official Ukrainian authorities as the military aggressor of Ukraine (mostly during P. Poroshenko's presidency and less during V. Zelensky's presidency) – the level of the conflict is "power-power". The discourse of Tomos in Ukraine has provoked not only interconfessional and political confrontation. It influenced confidence in the church as a moral institute because, on the one hand, we've had a "church of the aggressor state" (UOC-MP) and an "illegal church" (OCU), and on the other hand, there were "Orthodox" and "schismatics". This has mentally widened the gap between the East and the West of Ukraine. An analysis held based on data from the Razumkov Center, official statistics of religious organizations in Ukraine, as well as judicial acts, testifies that this gap is formed along a territorial line. Therefore, S. Huntington's theory of a global policy developed along the cultural line finds support. ; Формування політичної ідентичності нації, де релігійна складова стає певним маркером, за яким відбувається розмежування або об'єднання суспільства, багато в чому пов'язано з публічним простором. Не зважаючи на те, що політика та релігія мають власні публічні поля, у більшості європейських країн Сходу відбувається боротьба за вплив та розширення власного публічного поля між політикою та релігією. З метою залучення громадян у дискурс політичного та релігійного, політична та церковна еліти ментально змушують суб'єкта балансувати на кордоні політичного та релігійного й перетворюють його на учасника власних політичних процесів. Втрата територій, військові події на Сході країни та президентські вибори 2019 р. створили український дискурс Томосу, який через контекст війни встановив новий маркер української ідентичності. Українське суспільство опинилося на лінії трьох протистоянь: 1) між Українською православною церквою (Московського патріархату) (на сьогодні УПЦ) та офіційною політикою влади часів президента Петра Порошенка – рівень конфлікту «владацерква»; 2) внутрішній конфлікт між українськими православними конфесіями, коли постало питання створення єдиної православної церкви України (ПЦУ) завдяки отриманню Томосу – рівень конфлікту «церква-церква»; 3) між офіційною політикою Росії, яка підтримує діяльність УПЦ (МП) й визнана військовим агресором України та офіційною зовнішньою політикою української влади (у більшості часів П. Порошенка та у меншості В. Зеленського) – рівень конфлікту «влада-влада». Дискурс Томосу в Україні спричинив не тільки міжконфесійне та політичне протистояння. Він підняв питання публічної релігії в умовах релігійних протистоянь. Аналіз інформації, що було проведено у 2020 році на основі даних Центру Разумкова, офіційної статистики релігійних організацій в Україні (на 2020 рік), а також судових актів, свідчить про територіальну лінію розлому, яка представлена у цій статті у вигляді карти України. Що підкріплює теорію С. Гантінгтона про глобальну політику, яка вибудовується за культурною лінією розколу.
Уперше текст есе було опубліковано у виданні: C. Langlois. Politique et religion // Histoire de la France religieuse / ред. J. Le Goff , R. Rémond, т. 3: Du Roi Très Chrétien à la laïcité républicaine / ред. P. Joutard. Paris 1991, с. 108-143. Українською мовою есе публікується за згодою Автора, з коментарем д. і. н. Вадима Ададурова. ; Есе характеризує взаємодію між політичним і релігійним рівнями суспільної активности у Франції в період між укладенням у 1801 р. конкордату й ухваленням у 1901-1904 рр. законів про відокремлення Церкви від держави. Оповідь зосереджується на трьох головних точках взаємодії політики і релігії, якими було ставлення до Римського престолу, до спадщини Французької революції та до освіти. ; The author elucidates the interaction between political and religious social activism in France during the period between the signing of the Concordat (1801) and the adoption of laws on governing the separation of church and state (1901-1904). Three main points of intersection between politics and religion are identified as attitudes to: (i) the Holy See; (ii) the legacy of the French Revolution; and (iii) education.
