New publications

Starostenko, V. V. Catholicism at the current stage of development of the Belarusian society (religious analysis): a monograph / V. V. Starostenko, O. V. Dyachenko. — Mogilev : Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University, 2018. — 161 p. : ill.

The monograph presents analysis of the current state of the Catholicism structure, the specifics and dynamics of its development in the context of local confessional life. Institutions of the Catholic Church, which are the second religious association of the republic influencing religious processes and the third in the number of communities, are considered in the context of a recent phenomenon of “the return of religion”, or “religious and church renaissance” appeared in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
It also reveals the role of Belarusian Catholicism in the system of state-confessional and inter-confessional relations in the Republic of Belarus. The relation between Catholicism and state is considered by the authors as one of the essential components of the modern strategy of state-confessional relations in the poly-confessional Belarusian society.
The publication is intended for specialists of Religious Studies, the History of Religion; social scientists, university lecturers and students, as well as for those who are involved in the implementation of government state-confessional policy.