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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2024. Vol 47

State-Confessional Relations in the Republic of Belarus: On the Way to an Identification Model

Author(s)
V. A. Dolin
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of specifics of the relations development of between the state and religious organizations in the Republic of Belarus. The content of the research suggests identification of main stages of development and conceptual understanding of evolution of stateconfessional relations in the Republic of Belarus. Based on the analysis of legislation of the Republic of Belarus, four stages of evolution of state-confessional relations are identified: the adoption of the Constitution in 1994; the constitutional consolidation in 1996 of the principle of differentiation of the status of traditional religions; the consolidation in 2002 in the profile law preamble of the gradation list of traditional religions according to their significance for the history and culture of the country; the conclusion in 2003 the year of the agreement of the Republic of Belarus with the Belarusian Orthodox Church. A conceptual understanding of the evolution of state-confessional relations in the Republic of Belarus allows us to consider the second, third and fourth stages of this evolution as three stages in the formation of an actual model of relations between the state and religious associations. The author concludes that the Republic of Belarus has made a transition to the identification model of a secular state, in the genetic aspect corresponding to the formula "from secularism to secularity". The results of the research are relevant in the context of search and justification of optimal model parameters of state-confessional relations in Russia.
About the Authors
Dolin Vyacheslav Alexandrovich. Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Socio-Economic Disciplines, Belgorod Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after I. D. Putilin, 71, Gorky st., Belgorod, 308024, Russian Federation, e-mail: v.a.dolin@mail.ru
For citation
Dolin V.A. State-Confessional Relations in the Republic of Belarus: on the Way to an Identification Model. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2024, vol. 47, pp. 140-146. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.47.140 (in Russian)
Keywords
state-confessional relations, Belarus, Orthodox Church, concordat, secularism, secularity, identification model.
UDC
322
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.47.140
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