Book
Religion and Society in the East. Issue I
Еditor: Sarabyev Alexey
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Москва, 2017, 290 p.
This issue opens a new series of scientific publications on the religious and confessional problems of the Eastern societies. The main topic of the issue is the relationship between religious communities and the state, as well as interfaith relations and their connection with political processes. The authors of the articles examine all the problems in a historical retrospective, combined with an analysis of current events. A wide geographical coverage (India, Iran, China, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria) gives readers an opportunity for comparative analysis. Approaches to developing topics are restraint in assessing the religious factor of conflictogenity. Interconfessional contradictions and interreligious discord are considered not as autonomously acting, but as closely intertwined with other factors. There are such factors as material and social inequality, disproportionate political participation of the population, the religious and ideological pressure and influence of fundamentalists, as well as diverse effects from abroad. Special attention should be paid to the article by Abdullah al-Ahmar – the deputy general secretary of the Ba‘ath Party (Syria). His article is also presented in Arabic.
See also in Internet:
https://religion.ivran.ru/number?number_id=197
Content
РУССКАЯ ВЕРСИЯ: Религия и общество на Востоке. Выпуск I