Remembrance of the Borki Train Disaster in the Eparchial Part of “Faith and Reason” by Antonina Kizlova

“…In the view of the state religion, this miraculous salvation was considered to be a divine blessing and was consequently immortalized in an hermitage near Borki, by charitable institutions, etc. …”
Get full text

Political and gender aspects of Mary Tudor’s rise to power and rule by Mironova, Svetlana A.

“…Catholicism in England has once again become the state religion. The Queen carried out a number of successful financial reforms, largely laying the foundations for the rule of her successor, Elizabeth I. …”
Get full text

UGANDA: A Country Profile by Ahmad Masum

“…English is the official language by virtue of Article 6(1) of the 1995 Constitution and Swahili is also widely spoken especially in the urban areas. Uganda has no State religion. As a country, Uganda has witnessed some positive development in the area of security. …”
Get full text

两种文化民族主义——评“文化民族主义论纲”及“甲申文化宣言” (Two Types of Cultural Nationalism) by Sylvia Chan

“…It argues that the school promoting Confucianism as a state religion has an explicit political agenda of rallying the nation around the goal of building a rich and powerful China to ensure its national security in a competitive and hostile international environment. …”
Get full text

Roman Virtues in the Christian Context of St Augustine’s De Civitate Dei by I. N. Buzykina

“…With the view to a representative research, De Civitate Dei by Saint Augustine, the most famous Christian treatise dealing with the state, civic rights, state religion, authority etc. was analyzed. On the one hand, this great book provides multiple suitable illustrations for almost every feature of the continuity between the Ancient pagan culture and Christian intellectual one. …”
Get full text

W kręgu problematyki stosunków Kościoła i państwa w świecie późnego antyku by Alicja Leska

“… Alicja Leska in her article entitled On the range of problems concerning the relationship between the Church and the state in the late Antiquity outlines the way Christianity went from a persecuted religion to a state religion and demonstrates how Christianity changed the political and social relations in the Roman Empire completely and irretrievably. …”
Get full text

The first of Sassanid kings and the question of to the Kingdom of arrival Narseh by حمید کاویانی پویا،

“…Sassanian after   access to power, Attempted tothe focus of the central government, and  to recognize the state religion. But this Objectives did not continue normal process. …”
Get full text

Julian the Apostate’s religious policy and renovatio imperii morumque in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus by Anna Mleczek

“…Julian, who was a zealous follower of pagan religion, attempted to re-establish the old cultus deorum in the Christian-pagan society and to make paganism the Roman state religion. Ammianus, who witnessed Julian’s reign, shows in his Res Gestae that the emperor did his utmost to renew equally the morals of society and condition of the state. …”
Get full text

Politics and Religion in Montenegro—From “Theocracy” to a Civic State by Danijela Vuković-Ćalasan, Rajka Đoković

“…The fact that Montenegro had pronounced features of a theocracy at the beginning of the creation of the state makes this context specific not only to the Balkan region, but also beyond. The concept of state religion and the period dominated by features of Caesaropapism was replaced by a period of modernisation of the state that gave rise to a separation of political and religious elements. …”
Get full text

The formation of Armenian identity in the first millenium by van Lint, T

“…Three periods are distinguished: the Nairian-Urartian stretching from about 1200 BCE to the conquest of the Armenian plateau by the Achaemenids; followed by the Zoroastrian phase, in which political, religious, social, and cultural institutions in Armenia were closely related to Iranian ones, lasting until the adoption of Christianity as state religion in Armenia at the beginning of the fourth century. …”

Çuvaşlarda İslâm ve Çuvaş Etniğindeki Değişimde İslâmın Rolü by Durmuş Arık

“…Chuvashes are the descendants of Idil-Bulgarians who had accepted Islam firstly as a state religion in Turkish history. Some of them have kept the traditional Turkish believes alive up to the present day. …”
Get full text

Entrepreneurship, Calvinist Ethic and Regional Development by Alejandra Elizabeth Urbiola Solís, Clara Escamilla Santana, María de la Luz Fernández Barros, Erika León Acevedo

“…The religious diversity is the result of the anticlerical fight in the XIX century and the decision to abandon the state religion. The opening in the religious market is also due to socioeconomicl factors and education, size and location of the town, and ethnicity. …”
Get full text

François de La Mothe Le Vayer and His De l’instruction de Monsieur le Dauphin: The Concepts of the Golden Mean and Public Good by Aleksey Lyubzhin

“…Le Vayer describes the four pillars of the state — religion, justice, finance, and military power — speculating on how thoroughly a hereditary prince of France should study liberal and mechanical arts. …”
Get full text

Cheng Yu’s Response to the Moral Crisis and the Modern Fate of Confucian China by Dadui Yao

“…Following the May Fourth Movement in 1919, he vigorously advocated moral instruction and hoped the government would establish Confucianism as the state religion. He believed it was the only way the government could preserve the country’s culture and save China from imminent destruction. …”
Get full text

Does Conscience Have to be Free? A Multiple Crossroads of Religious, Political, and Diplomatic Arguments: 1868-1874 by Kōichirō Matsuda

“…Reluctantly the Meiji state lifted the ban on Christianity in 1873 but they had started the institutionalization of Shinto as the state religion in advance. The government officials viewed that Christian faith and churches in Western countries were devised to prevent public mind from dissolution. …”
Get full text

La vita religiosa nello Stato sovietico. Le coraggiose testimonianze della fede nel periodo delle persecuzioni religiose by Jan Mikrut

“…In the Soviet Union, Christian churches were in a very difficult situation due to the bloody persecution and atheization of all forms of religion by the Soviet state. Religion became a battleground where the Communists could challenge all other ideological principles. …”
Get full text

Islam and Politics in Malaysia since 1957 by Elmira Akhmetova

“…The constitution states that Islam is the state religion, although it also states that religious freedom for non-Muslims is assured without discrimination. …”
Get full text

Christian Resistance to Gay-Proselytism in a Secular Nigeria: Anathema or Social Heroism? by Endong Floribert, Calvain Patrick

“…Secularity is partially observed at the political sphere of the State. Religion and populism continue to shape major socio-political schemes (as seen in the criminalization of homosexuality in Nigeria). …”
Get full text

Is Achieving Freedom About Making a Lot of Money? An Interpretation of Fernando Pessoa's The Anarchist Banker by Bragues, George

“…By anarchism is meant a state of affairs in which individuals are able to attain their highest potential free of the constraints imposed by all humanly constructed institutions, whether it be the state, religion, family, or the monetary system. At first blush, the banker's case strikes the reader as bizarre, yet the flaws in his reasoning are hard to pinpoint. …”
Get full text

MILITER DAN POLITIK IRAN PASCA REVOLUSI by , MOHAMMAD NUR S S, , Prof. Dr. Jahja A. Muhaimin, M.A.

“…This transformation is a result of the ever evolving of the Iranian political institution since the introduction of Shiite Islam as a state religion more than three centuries ago up until now. …”