Exploration of Religion—State Relations
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2022) | Viewed by 2777
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Religions is dedicated to the relations between religion and state. The issue is as old as both institutions, i.e., religion and state. In the past, all antient Mediterranean states were identified with any religion that legitimized state power. Initially, Christianity brought a new model of relations between religion and politics assuming separateness of both spheres. However, after three centuries of its beginning, Christianity became an official religion of the Roman Empire as well as other state structures. Real separation between religion and state is a result of the Enlightenment era and the French Revolution. A secular state as a model of the relations between religion and state dominates in the contemporary world. Communist countries declare even state atheism as an official ideology. However, on the other hand, we can also point at confessional models of these relations, among them, theocracies. The topic is still important and current. The tendencies of the coexistence of secularization with the revival of the religious life of people and the politization of religion being characteristic for various political movements and regimes are of interest.
The aim of this Special Issue is a presentation of the religion–state relations from different perspectives, i.e., historical, political, normative, philosophical, and theological. It will be a collection of empirical and theoretical works.
Dr. Arkadiusz Modrzejewski
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- religion–state relations
- secular state
- confessional state
- state religion
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