The legal notion of traditional religions in lithuania and its sociopolitical consequences

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0642
Nama Orang :	Racius, Egdunas






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge - Crime, 2020

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Abstrak	Lithuania formally distinguishes between what it terms traditional, state-recognized, registered, and unregistered religions. Though constitutionally Lithuania is a secular state and all religions are declared equal vis-à-vis the state, religious communities recognized as traditional have, nonetheless, been favored by the state. They have been granted pref erential treatment both in the legislation and extralegal handling by various state actors and institutions. At the same time, traditional religious communities are formally equal among themselves and vis-à-vis the state. However, the size of their membership puts them into two distinct camps. While the Catholic community constitutes 77 percent of the country s pop ulation, the remaining eight traditional religious communities together hardly make up 6 percent, of which 4 percent are Orthodox, with Lutherans, Calvinists, Greek Catholics, Old Believers, Judaists, Karaites, and Sunni Muslims making up the remaining numbers. This article focuses on one of the smaller traditional religious communities, Sunni Muslims, and through this example seeks to show looming complications arising from the current legal system for the governance of religion in Lithuania, which, as a country, starts inter alia being affected by the appearance of revivalist and other nontraditional forms of Islam on its territory. The article argues that with the changing makeup of the Lithuanian religious landscape not related only to Islam the current system of the gover nance of religion is not only outdated but also unsustainable and needs to be thoroughly overhauled to come more in line with the developing social reality
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	regime of governance of religion, traditional churches and religious organizations, traditional religious communities, Islam in Lithuania, Muslims in Lithuania
ISSN
Tahun Terbit	2020
No. Induk	eja-21-0642
Entri Sumber Data	Cambridge - Crime
Entri Utama Nama orang	Racius, Egdunas
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 35, no. 1, p. 61-78
Entri Utama Nama Badan
Barcode	eja-21-0642
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	The legal notion of traditional religions in lithuania and its sociopolitical consequences
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional