Nerija Putinaitė
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823267309
- eISBN:
- 9780823272334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823267309.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
For fifty years, the Soviet ideological apparatus sought to erase the influence of Christianity from the Lithuanian people. Putinaitė outlines two ways this policy was pursued: by stressing Marx’s ...
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For fifty years, the Soviet ideological apparatus sought to erase the influence of Christianity from the Lithuanian people. Putinaitė outlines two ways this policy was pursued: by stressing Marx’s notion of religion as the ‘opium of the people’ and by emphasizing Lithuania’s pre-Christian cultural identity. Now, over twenty years after Lithuanian independence, the effects of this atheistic indoctrination are evident in the weak attachment young people have to Christianity and the ineffectual role of Christian political parties, leaders, churches in the new democracy. This complex and weakened relationship between Christianity and contemporary Lithuania politics was illustrated in the national debate over the ‘National Concept of Family Policy.’ Here, a ‘traditional’ understanding of marriage and family was defeated by an anti-Christian rhetoric devoid of reasoned, civil debate.Less
For fifty years, the Soviet ideological apparatus sought to erase the influence of Christianity from the Lithuanian people. Putinaitė outlines two ways this policy was pursued: by stressing Marx’s notion of religion as the ‘opium of the people’ and by emphasizing Lithuania’s pre-Christian cultural identity. Now, over twenty years after Lithuanian independence, the effects of this atheistic indoctrination are evident in the weak attachment young people have to Christianity and the ineffectual role of Christian political parties, leaders, churches in the new democracy. This complex and weakened relationship between Christianity and contemporary Lithuania politics was illustrated in the national debate over the ‘National Concept of Family Policy.’ Here, a ‘traditional’ understanding of marriage and family was defeated by an anti-Christian rhetoric devoid of reasoned, civil debate.
Maria Apanovich
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474453486
- eISBN:
- 9781474484992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453486.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter provides an overview of the migration trends in the Russian Federation from the 1990s to the 2010s in the context of the drastic change in the political, economic and social aspects of ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the migration trends in the Russian Federation from the 1990s to the 2010s in the context of the drastic change in the political, economic and social aspects of the country. It examines the various laws that were passed during the period to indicate the architecture of the migration policy in “new” Russia. The chapter focuses on the Migration Policy Concept (later Concept) and its criticism, which was adopted in 2012 as an action plan until 2025. The last part of the chapter gives an overview of the newest adjustment of the Concept done in November 2018. This latest policy emphasises the importance of labour migration and added internal migration to the agenda for the first time since 1990s.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the migration trends in the Russian Federation from the 1990s to the 2010s in the context of the drastic change in the political, economic and social aspects of the country. It examines the various laws that were passed during the period to indicate the architecture of the migration policy in “new” Russia. The chapter focuses on the Migration Policy Concept (later Concept) and its criticism, which was adopted in 2012 as an action plan until 2025. The last part of the chapter gives an overview of the newest adjustment of the Concept done in November 2018. This latest policy emphasises the importance of labour migration and added internal migration to the agenda for the first time since 1990s.
Tim Blackman
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861346117
- eISBN:
- 9781447302971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861346117.003.0003
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter examines the concept of emergence in relation to the common conception of neighbourhood. It attempts to link the complexity concept of an order parameter with the policy concept of ...
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This chapter examines the concept of emergence in relation to the common conception of neighbourhood. It attempts to link the complexity concept of an order parameter with the policy concept of upstream interventions in social problems. The chapter introduces the concept of environment press and explores this idea with a novel study of the outdoor participation of people with dementia. It proposes a causal model of the neighbourhood system.Less
This chapter examines the concept of emergence in relation to the common conception of neighbourhood. It attempts to link the complexity concept of an order parameter with the policy concept of upstream interventions in social problems. The chapter introduces the concept of environment press and explores this idea with a novel study of the outdoor participation of people with dementia. It proposes a causal model of the neighbourhood system.
