By Theodosios Tsivolas, Norman Doe
This e-book examines intimately either old and present criminal suggestions of ‘religious cultural background’ in the context of the ecu continent. The latter workforce is based mostly at the number of sacred cultural components emanating from the several non secular traditions of the peoples of Europe, that are deemed priceless of security and upkeep because of their striking worth, when it comes to their social, cultural and spiritual significance. In view of this, the learn presents facts of the ecu States’ energetic involvement with their sacred/cultural treasures, at the foundation of the political and felony foundations of neutrality and pluralism.
Furthermore, the ebook analyzes all suitable foreign legislative tools (i.e. the plethora of european, EC and UNESCO norms), in addition to all significant eu legislative styles, in gentle in their value for the aforementioned features of pluralism and neutrality. The interdisciplinary references indexed on the finish of every bankruptcy supply an extra incentive for additional analyzing at the topic matter.
The most vital discovering to emerge from the research is that there's a shared felony ethos in Europe that imposes an obligation of acceptable care about the great number of sacred cultural items and the spiritual cultural background often, as a useful repository of eu cultural capital. It additionally considers the sui generis nature of this capital: like several different form of asset, it could become worse or fade over the years, necessitating funding in its protection or refurbishment; however, like no different, this actual capital keeps a unique cultural worth, because it includes an extra attribute of ‘sacredness’ expressed within the kind of its ‘religious character,’ the latter being analyzed as a triptych of spiritual reminiscence, spiritual aesthetics and non secular beliefs.
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2 European Policies on Religious Culture 31 beyond the maintenance of historic buildings to that of religious artifacts and archives, which may also be of educational value. Within the scope of EU’s ‘including’ policy on funding religious culture (on the basis of the aforementioned principle of ‘including Neutrality’), a typical example would be the Resolution ‘on economic aid to Mount Athos (Monastery Region)’. 36 Following the above, since 1987, the Commission has helped to finance the restoration works undertaken on the holy monasteries of Mount Athos.
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