Religious Factor in Europe: the interests of the churches and the interests of the politicians

• Main Author: Lunkin Roman
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Institute of Europe Russian Academy of Sciences 2018-08-01
• Series: Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН
• Subjects: religiosity; tolerance; interreligious dialogue; church-state relations; religious factor
• Online Access: http://vestnikieran.instituteofeurope.ru/images/%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD2_4_2018.pdf

The article concludes that the religious factor has become the necessary element of the international relations agenda, discussions around the problems of the security, preservation of the traditions and identity under globalization. Religious factor is also used as a political tool for the resolution of the actual problems and the filling the gaps of the ideological justification by the European politicians from 2000’s. The author underlines that under liberal and traditionalist approaches in the public policy the revived religious and national motivation has begun to live its own life independent from politicians. Corporate interests of churches that are not ready to be the part of the Church-State unions as in the past for some profits and cannot close up in the national borders have become evident