The Content of the book includes the following Chapters: Political role of Religion, Religion inside the democratic system, The Christian Churches in the European society, Religious institutes in the structures of the European Union. Special Chapter dedicated to the Churches in the period of the crisises with special accent to the crisis of the European integration, immigration problems, religious reaction to the coronavirus pandemics. The Chapter on the Churches of the post-Soviet space analyzes the political and social role of the Russian Orthodox Church, the foreign policy of the Moscow Patriarchate in the context of the Russian-Ukrainain crisis of 2014. Also there are chapters on the Catholic Church and the review of the political role of the Protestant Churches (Evangelical movement) in Russia and Eurasia.
The Author made a conclusion that the old sociology of religion and the past methods and tools of counting believers and the influence of religion and individual churches as a whole are collapsing. The Russian Church, like many other European churches, evaluates itself in the old way, therefore, it is periodically forced to make excuses for attending divine services for certain holidays, percentages that support the authority of the church, etc. In fact, religion existes in several spaces, in reality and online. What is called religion in private life, “faith in the soul”, is leaving. The religion of an active citizen has become a new creative meaning in the life of mankind, whose diseases and viruses, as well as claims to the church, remain the same from century to century.
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