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By studying the place for religious cultures in higher education through spatial and temporal dimensions, we met a broad range of concepts. During the two decades of the transition, remarkable alterations occurred in this area in the post-communist countries. Even the most notable higher education researchers in the West consider yet this change only as a quantitative growth in one segment of the private sector and do not perceive the qualitative change of the situation (Altbach 1999). As we decided to prepare our recent volume, in the post-communist context, we had to handle the outlined dimensions in a flexible way but it seemed that the following dimensions are determining and they grip the most important areas of institutional cultures: the role establishing (Church and civil actors) and professional academic actors in organisational development, social and religious background of admitted students, relation to ethnic and regional identity, influence and function of clergy, religious contents of education (curriculum and co-curriculum) as well as institutional commitment and the academic achievement of faculty. In the first 11 chapters, we present the country-based interpretations of the investigated type of higher education to offer a chance to understand the speciality and the common features of faith-based institutions in this region. In order to show the status of Churchrelated higher education and reveal their local meanings, we aimed to find researchers with experience and special sensitivity on issues of higher educational research and on research in sociology of religion. We asked them to interpret the question of the role of churches in higher education within the context of a particular country or region.
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Church Related Higher Education in Eastern and Central EuropeOccasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Pusztai's "Region and Education III: Education and Church in Central-and Eastern-Europe at First Glance" and "Region and Education IV: Religion and Values in Education in Central and Eastern Europe" - Book Review2009 •
These studies have a common characteristic namely these authors try to interpret the role of churches in education by searching for its social function or common social utility. Most references are made to the function conveying values and helping social integration. In post communist countries it is a common denominator that the authority of state schools has sagged since they were mediator for the totalitarian ideology for decades. It is a particular paradox that societies in this region react with increased fretfulness and distrust schools in their value-conveying role, although wide social layers (e.g. the losers of market transformations, victims of family or professional harms) of societies that underwent political transformation are anomic. The consequences can be detected in the decline of civil participation, deviances in health conduct and the deformation of human relationships. It is common, too, that stability provided by ties to a church is interpreted a resources within the intractable political conflicts. As the civil society was forcefully disjointed by the totalitarian dictatorships and common trust sagged during the social transformations and as the commitment for common interests was misused for decades, it was the churches that could remain the most genuine elements of the civil sector. Local interpretations about the role of churches in education have common features: they emphasize the ambition to help social integration and to develop attitudes to mediation, tolerance and acceptance between different cultural groups in multicultural regions or to improve school chances of disadvantaged students.
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The Journal of Church and State
Double or Nothing: Academic Theology and Postcommunist Religious Policy2010 •
The initial sections of this paper will provide general information on the organization of the Romanian higher education system and the growth of theological higher education after 1989. I will then look in additional detail at several dimensions of academic theology in Romania which I consider essential to its current role in domestic religious affairs: organizational structure, the expansion of theological specializations, and its relation to religious studies.
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Legal regulation of religious education in Ukraine : Implementation of the separation of the Church and other religious organizations from state educational institutions2022 •
This article, via an analysis of legislation, law-application practice, and individual elements of statistical information, reveals the implementation of the constitutional provision on the separation in Ukraine of the church (religious organizations) from the state and the school from the church. The authors state that the requirements of the constitutional legislation are not fully observed, and religious education at schools depends on religious organizations to a significant extent. The intensity and depth of the influence of religious organizations on educational institutions differs however at various levels of education and in different institutions. At the level of pre-school and general secondary education, due to state standardization and control, the sphere of autonomy of religious organizations in providing educational services is sufficiently narrow. At the level of higher education, in institutions founded by religious organizations, the educational process is carried out under the control of the religious organization itself, and the state and communal institutions (which train specialists majoring in theology) are under the aegis of the Ministry of Education and Science. Higher religious education (both that obtained in private institutions and that obtained in state or communal institutions) is de facto not separated from religious organizations, although the Constitution of Ukraine declares this. The confessional nature of theology is manifested in the content of academic courses and the organization of the educational process. In practice, however, the cooperation of churches with educational institutions is based on the need for the former to determine or at least influence the content of the training of their future ministers; for educational institutions, cooperation is a powerful tool for ensuring the employment of graduates of educational programs, and, respectively, directly affects the number of applicants. Key words: educational institutions; freedom of religion; religious organizations; theological education
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