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".

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Department of Political Science, University of Gdańsk, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
Interests: political philosophy; political thought; political theory; normative IR theory

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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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The Political Discourse of the Church of Greece during the Crisis: An Empirical Approach
by Spyridon Kaltsas, Gerasimos Karoulas, Yiannis Karayiannis and Fani Kountouri
Religions 2022, 13(4), 273; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/rel13040273 - 23 Mar 2022
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This article presents the analysis of an empirical study that explored the political discourse of the Church of Greece (CoG) during a specific period of the Greek financial crisis, that is, from January 2015 to January 2019. The analysis is based on official [...] Read more.
This article presents the analysis of an empirical study that explored the political discourse of the Church of Greece (CoG) during a specific period of the Greek financial crisis, that is, from January 2015 to January 2019. The analysis is based on official texts of the CoG, reports in two daily newspapers, and the results of a quantitative content analysis. Through our analysis, we explore three main questions. The first focuses on the types of issues (‘agenda’) raised by the main representatives of the CoG; the second focuses on the framing used concerning these issues; and the third focuses on how the agenda and frames interact with regard to the CoG’s active (discursive) role as an ‘established church’ and/or a ‘public religion’. Our findings indicated that the CoG intervened in a considerable number of issues not strictly related to religion or the Greek financial crisis. Moreover, the main framing devices of the CoG’s discourse varied from identity to conflict frames, while its discourse reflected its self-understanding as both an established church and a public religion. Full article
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