The Position of the Protestant Churches during the Political Crisis in Armenia

• Main Author: Roman Lunkin
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Institute of Europe Russian Academy of Sciences 2018-12-01
• Series: Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН
• Subjects: armenia; interreligious dialogue; christianity; protestantism; religious legislation
• Online Access: http://vestnikieran.instituteofeurope.ru/images/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%B2_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_6_2018.pdf

In the article analyzed the role of the protestant churches during the political crisis in Armenia in 2018. The special attention payed to the analysis of the activity of the protestant church of the Pentecostal branch «Word of Life» in a frames of the religious and political studies. The author made a conclusion that the protestant churches of the evangelical movement that rooted on a post-soviet space in 1990s are very active on social and political space in the defending of their interests and in developing of their missionary activity. Among the basic features of the protestant churches in the political life is the claim of their commitment to the patriotism and national interests, the principal standing for the democratic values, the raising of the church members as active citizens, the civil engagement of the believers, he creating of the strategy of the youth mission that suppose the broad involvement of the young people in the development of the civil society, inside non-government organizations and in the political actions