Larisa A Andreeva

Russian Academy of Sciences | RAS · Institute for African Studies

The article deals with the problem of the hybrid identity of the representatives of the second/third generation of European Muslims, which has become a consequence of the failure of various strategies for the integration of migrants into European society. Hy-bridity arises in situations of cultural intersection when somewhat contradictory meanings...

The article is devoted to the study of the influence of the thesis of the American medievalist Lynn White that Christianity is responsible for environmental injustice, which became the trigger for the formation of a new discipline in Christian theology – environmental theology and a new Christian environmental consciousness, on activities of the Af...

The article explores the pan-European tendency for foreign states to turn Eu-ropean Muslim associations, consisting of people from these states, into their agents of influence. This problem is illustrated by the case of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Re-ligious Affairs (DITIB) association in Germany which a de facto and de jure instrument of Turkish...

The article compares the tendencies of Islamism in school education in France and Germany. Despite the different approaches to the role of religion in schools in these countries with large Muslim communities, there is a growing process of the penetration of Islamism into schools. The external manifestations of this phenomenon coincide ‒ the segrega...

This article is devoted to the emergence and formation of Jewish and Judaic selfidentification of the Igbo people (Nigeria) ‒ one of the ethnic groups of Tropical Africa. African Jews pose the question of their Jewish identity in two ways: religious and ethnic. As a result of decades of British colonialism and missionary activity, the Igbo were Chr...

The article is devoted to the challenge of the modern constitutional system of Germany by Islamic organizations. Mass migration from Muslim countries and the formation of “parallel” Muslim communities led to the fact that it was in this environment that transnational Islamist organizations such as “Muslim Brotherhood” found their adherents and esta...

The article is devoted to the consideration of religious conflicts as a “push factor” of migration from countries of Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, which is becoming one of the most acute problems for the leaders of the European Union. The result of the “Arab spring” and the overthrow of the ruling regimes in the Maghreb countries was the eliminatio...

In the article the formation of a quasi-religious cult of revolutionary martyrs as one of the forms of "transfer of sacredness" is considering. The formation of this phenomenon in the Narodnaya Volya's movement of the second half of the 19th century in the Russian Empire is investigated. Particular attention is paid to the study of Lenin's biograph...

In the 21st century we observe revolutionary changes that happen under the influence of globalization. These changes have covered the whole world. On the one hand, they manifest as a rapid shift of the centre of Christianity from the countries of so-called “global North” to the countries of so-called “global South”. On the other hand, they manifest...

The European Union, as a supranational Union of a number developed European States in its new institutionalization, has consolidated some results of a long historical de-Christianization process. The authors show, on the examples of the founding documents of the European Union, as the religious values of Christianity give way to liberal-atheistic v...

The author has discussed the global transformations of Christianity in the context of its de-Europeanization and the shift of the center of gravity of world Christianity to the countries of the Global South. Her analysis of the religiosity of “southern” Christians prompted a conclusion not only about the geographical but also profound qualitative s...

The author has discussed the global transformations of Christianity in the context of its de-Europeanization and the shift of the center of gravity of world Christianity to the countries of the Global South. Her analysis of the religiosity of “southern” Christians prompted a conclusion not only about the geographical but also profound qualitative s...

The article is devoted to the process of changing traditional ethnic and geographic localization of Christianity at the beginning of the XXI century, the transition of the center of Christianity from the "global North" to the "global South's" countries and the formation of the new trend in Christianity, i.e. "Southern Christianity" as a result. Chr...

The article compares the data from a survey reflecting college students' perception of the social and political role of the Russian Orthodox Church with the results of nationwide Russian surveys for the purpose of determining the degree to which the basic conclusions coincide or differ.

The paper deals with verification of two key concepts describing development of Western world with important role assigned to religion: theory of secular world and concept of "post-secular" world. Sociological data of "World Values Studies", 2009 wave, confirm main conclusion of classical secularization theory as applied to "old" Europe, while disc...

Survey data on religiosity among Russian students shows that self-identifying as religious does not imply either belief in the details of Orthodoxy or participation in religious services. Attempts to make Russian Orthodoxy the basis of a new Russian state may be influencing public statements of affiliation, but not of behavior.

The ideological bases of support by broad masses of bolsheviks and the Soviet authority after October revolution of 1917 reveal in the article. Their aspects caused by disappointment in Orthodoxy as official religion of Russian empire in connection with discrepancy of sociopolitical positions of orthodox church to social and economic interests of p...

An earlier but more extensive Russian version see: http://www.nrgumis.ru/articles/article_full.php?aid=63&binn_rubrik_pl_articles=207 In Russia today one can observe the latent rebirth of the official pre-revolution ideological postulate, “Orthodox Christianity – autocracy – nationhood”, in the new shape: “Orthodox Christianity – state – Russian e...

In Russian. Full text is available from the webpage http://histant.ru/node/9