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Aleksandr Shchipkov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Щипко́в) (born 3 August 1957, Leningrad, USSR) — russian sociologist of religion, political scientist, specialist in church-state relationships, journalist, Ph.D. in Philosophy, editor-in-chief of internet magazine “RELIGARE.RU,” and Director of the Moscow Center for Social Research. == Biography == In the 1970s and 80s Shchipkov was active in the Orthodox underground resistance and was eventually prosecuted. Shchipkov was expelled from the institute for his religious beliefs and joined the army. Working as a factory worker in Smolensk and Leningrad until 1991. His first works were published and distributed via samizdat. After 1991, Shchipkov worked in newspapers, radio and television of Saint Petersburg and Moscow. He also taught the sociology of religion and was engaged in scientific research. After 1991, Shchipkov worked in newspapers, radio and television of Saint Petersburg and Moscow. He also taught the sociology of religion and was engaged in scientific research. Shchipkov’s life and works were heavily influenced by his stay in the community of Orthodox dissidents and the fate of his mother, Tatiana Shchipkova, who was sentenced to three years in Soviet labour camps (1980–83) for her orthodox views. Aleksandr Shchipkov is a representative of the nonsystem part of the former dissident community. Despite his negative outlook towards the communist state, Shchipkov considers the Soviet period as non-uniform. While openly criticizing the Communist monopoly on ideology (ex. official “Gosateizm” – state atheism), he believes that the Soviet forms of sociality correlate with the traditions of Russian Social Orthodoxy (community collectivism). Shchipkov considers the attitude to the Russian church tradition and Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) as an important milestone in relation to the assessment of the Russian political scene during the 1990s. In a number of articles and interviews, he argues that post-Soviet authorities used Orthodoxy as an "anti-Soviet marker", although these same instigators were not ready to return the Church’s historical rights - for example, the law to return Church property, including temples, was adopted only in 2010. In 2000, Shchipkov, under the supervision of Academy of Sciences member Lev Mitrokhin, defended his social philosophy PhD thesis on “Christian-democratic movements in post-Soviet Russia” at the Institute of Philosophy at Academy of Sciences. In his dissertation, Shchipkov admitted that prospects of Christian democracy in Russia were not too promising. Around the same time, Shchipkov became deputy chairman of the Methodical Council, which covers religious themes in the media at the Federal Ministry of Press and Mass Communication. He has acted as Chairman of the Guild of religious journalism since 2001 and as Chairman of the Club of Orthodox Journalists since 2007. Since 2002, he has held the rank of the editor-in-chief of the Internet magazine "religare.ru". Shchipkov has been a mainstay of modern Russian religious journalism from its origins, to which he dedicated the book ''The Religious Layer of Journalism''. Near the end of the 90s and early 2000’s, Shchipkov began to study the phenomenon of Russian religiosity, traditional and new religious movements, Russian religious consciousness and its intersection with political ideologies. At the same time, he noted the social aspects of Russian Orthodoxy, internal church issues, and life of the Orthodox community. Starting in the 2010s, Shchipkov has studied the trend of post-secularity as a global phenomenon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aleksandr Shchipkov (social scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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