- Author:
Agnieszka Banaś
- E-mail:
agnieszkabanas1992@onet.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Opolski
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9095-0883
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
41-53
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/so2023403
- PDF:
so/28/so2803.pdf
„Woe to the house where the wife leads the husband...” – A Review of Women’s Rights in Islamic Countries
This article deals with the rights of women in the Muslim world according to the Koran and the principles of Sharia law. In many areas, these rights are not respected, denied, or removed. Many women do not know their rights, believing their fathers and husbands, trusting in the eternal book, the Koran. However, changes in the legal field have been taking place since the 19th century thanks to women activists fighting to improve the lives of other Muslim women.
- Author:
Tatiana Kanasz
- E-mail:
tkanash@aps.edu.pl
- Institution:
Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Akademii Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. M. Grzegorzewskiej
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7389-5683
- Author:
Agata Chutnik
- E-mail:
achutnik@gmail.com
- Institution:
badaczka niezależna
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5915-8641
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
7-25
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ksm20240101
- PDF:
ksm/41/ksm4101.pdf
National Identity of Belarusians and Lithuanians: A Comparative Sociological Study
The article is a comparative analysis of the national identity of Belarusians and Lithuanians. The authors present in turn the complex processes of the formation of national identity of two groups, show their specificities in the historical, cultural and social dimensions, point to the differences and similarities, which emerge on the basis of the review of Belarusian, Lithuanian and international social research, conducted in 2010–2022. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Belarus took different paths, which influenced the formation of a more consistent model of national identity for Lithuanians and complex and ambivalent one for Belarusians.
- Author:
Moses Nwan
- E-mail:
mosesnwan@yahoo.com
- Institution:
National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
- Author:
Moses Etila Shaibu
- E-mail:
mshaibu@noun.edu.ng
- Institution:
National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
- Author:
Adeniyi T. Adegoke
- E-mail:
dradegokeadeniyi@yahoo.com
- Institution:
National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
72-97
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/rop2024205
- PDF:
rop/28/rop2805.pdf
Since the 1960s, African states have passed through different conflicts with reasons such as politics, ethnic, religious, and resource-based conflicts such as border or land disputes, and several other causes. The Northern Senatorial zone of Plateau State, Nigeria has witnessed several violent conflicts between 2001 and 2023 with several scholars assessing the immediate causes and its impact without looking at the remote causes. This study examines the history of conflicts in the Northern Plateau Senatorial zone and its persistent nature with its root causes. The study adopted history research method, which comprised primary and secondary sources. Data was obtained by the researcher from oral interviews in the Jos metropolis and across Plateau North. Also, books and Journals from the University of Jos and the National Library Jos branch provided quality data. The conflict in the Northern Plateau comprising five out of the six local council areas evolved from instances of clashes and skirmishes as a result of spontaneous ethnic and religious provocations and reactions to planned attacks between Christians and Muslins in Jos North and South starting from 2001, guerilla-style reprisals, cattle rustling, herder/farmer clashes across Bassa, Riyom and Barkin Ladi LGAs. The study found out that the root cause of conflicts in the Northern Plateau was the British colonial policies of the 1900s, which led to the massive influx of immigrants that settled permanently in Jos North and South, Barkin Ladi, Riyom and Bassa LGAs. The study discovers that the conflict in Northern Plateau has led to pervasive insecurity of lives and property, as evidenced by the spate of cattle rustling, armed robbery attacks, assassinations, and ethnic and religious feuds coupled with the seeming helplessness of security agencies to handle criminal attacks on civilian populations in Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Bassa LGAs. The study recommends that security can be secure if freedom and justice are allowed to reign through arresting perpetrators and punishing them severely, allowing freedom of economic, political and social participation for all citizens of Plateau State without ethnic or religious discrimination.
- Author:
Rafał Rutkowski
- E-mail:
rtr.rutkowski@gmail.com
- Institution:
Polska Akademia Nauk
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1875-982X
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
231-251
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/hso240308
- PDF:
hso/42/hso4208.pdf
- License:
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the CreativeCommons Attribution license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
History, archaeology and ethnography as disciplines unsuitable for the study of Slavic beliefs according to Dariusz Andrzej Sikorski in his „Religions of the ancient Slavs”
For the author of the book presented below, the topic of Slavic beliefs is only a pretext for formulating writing technique-related postulates. A discussion with D.A. Sikorski should not take place in the field of methodology, or the field of the substance, and even less in the field of extra-academic research motivations. A historian should give voice to the source accounts (which does not necessarily mean considering them historically reliable), and this is made possible by appropriate methods. D.A. Sikorski, on the other hand, believes that the method is secondary, as long as it leads to results that are consistent with the ‘state of the facts’, which in practice have nothing to do with the sources. His proposal, however, is unacceptable for it is characterised by unreliability, one-sidedness, undermining of source testimony and replacing it with one’s own fantasies in accordance with a preconceived thesis that „it is not known how it actually was, but it is known that the Slavs did not have their own beliefs”. The result is a methodological trap: positivism has been taken to its ultimate consequences and turned upside down, becoming voluntarism within which you can undermine whatever you see fit.
- Author:
Agnieszka Banaś
- E-mail:
agnieszkabanas1992@onet.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Opolski, Polska
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9095-0883
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
43-59
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/so2024104
- PDF:
so/29/so2904.pdf
“[…] A country of dreams and romantic emotions, fabulous wealth and incredible poverty” – civilization, religion and philosophy of India
Article “[…] A country of dreams and romantic emotions, fabulous wealth and incredible poverty” – civilization, religion and philosophy of India, depicts the rich history of Indian civilization over the centuries. The article discusses the most important issues in philosophy, religion and culture that have changed the face of today’s India over the centuries.
- Author:
Agnieszka Banaś
- E-mail:
agnieszkabanas1992@onet.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Opolski, Polska
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9095-0883
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
59-70
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/so2024204
- PDF:
so/30/so3004.pdf
Christianity in China
This paper is devoted mainly to the fate of the Christianisation of China over the centuries. It discusses the history of religion in individual dynasties, its development over the following years, attempts to convert the Chinese population by missionaries from various orders – Dominicans and Jesuits, memorable martyrs at the turn of 19th and 21st centuries – the division of Christianity, and the short fate of non-Christian religions in China.
- Author:
Jeyhun Valeh oglu Memmedov
- E-mail:
ceyhunmv@gmail.com
- Institution:
Azerbaijan University of Languages in Baku, Azerbaijan
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6182-9937
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
24-35
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/CPLS.2024203
- PDF:
cpls/10/cpls1003.pdf
The article describes that in the second half of the 19th century, industrialization, urbanization, economic development in Azerbaijan influenced the views of enlighteners and drew the factor of modernity forth. Since then, enlightenment laid the foundation for the transition from Pan-Islamism to nationalism and from theocratic statehood to modern national statehood. Enlightenment separated literary and historical view from the Turkic-Islamic union and directed it to the formation and development of the Azerbaijani people`s national identity and self-awareness. At the beginning of the 19th century, “Europeanization, Westernization” manifested itself in the entire Turkic-Muslim world. There were supporters and opponents of this issue, as well as neutral ones among the Turkish-Muslim intelligentsia. Although the first generation of enlighteners in Azerbaijan appreciated Western culture, they preferred the East. Unlike the first generation of enlighteners, M.F.Akhundzada, as a supporter of Westernization, initiated the ideas of a constitutional state, Europeanization, modernization, democratic state-religion, such as Europe and the separation of religion from the state for the first time in the Turkic-Muslim world.
- Author:
Paweł Prüfer
- E-mail:
paweljazz@o2.pl
- Institution:
Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim
- ORCID:
https://orcid. org/0000-0003-3647-8068
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
46-54
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/CPLS.2024405
- PDF:
cpls/12/cpls1205.pdf
Religious legitimization of the temporal order
The category of legitimization mainly refers to the sphere of politics and power. It means validation and justification. The article intends to outline the perspective of religion as a factor of legitimation in social life, and the concept of legitimisation itself wants to be treated metaphorically. It refers mainly to Max Weber and his analyses of religion and religious attitudes in collective, social and political life. Religion is often perceived only as a social phenomenon, or even only through the prism of a certain human project. For some sociologists, religious legitimization in relation to events in the profanum sphere gives them meaning and makes them important for individuals and communities. The article also points out how such aspirations are often quite reductive, because they only emphasize the purely human, temporal and earthly meaning of religious reality, and the phenomenon of religion is treated instrumentally.