A Word from the Editor-in-Chief: Religious Wars in XXI century – A Challenge for Politology of Religion

Since its foundation, Euro-American Political Science has accepted the assumption that religion would decline and eventually vanish due to secularization processes.Consequently, it accepted the notion that religion as a cause, challenge or even a cooperative force in armed conflicts and wars would vanish.However, the reality quickly challenged this assumption.First of all, religion did not decline.Contrary to this, religion has strengthened.The idea that religion would eventually vanish was mainly based on the insights from Europe, and particularly from intellectual and leftists' circles in USA.Typical example of this is Peter Berger.His predictions on religion made a significant negative mark on his career and reputation, because he was not only a sociologist of religion, but also a theologian.He, and many of his colleagues, predicted a religious decline based on examples from both Europe and USA.They employed Eurocentric approach which mattered only for the West, thus making a huge damage to the science by claiming things that were not correct.The damage they made was not only important in the field of science, but also for the Western societies.Their false conclusions tricked politicians, who made political decisions that made a significant damage not only to the Western societies, but also to the humanity in general.Berger and his colleagues observed the religious decline in Europe, and claimed that similar processes will influence all religions.Their approach shows that they did not know the teachings of world's religions well.They based their conclusions on Christianity, and particularly Western Christianity, and not Orthodox Christianity.Moreover, most of these scholars were at the same time atheists, and they did not bother to know Western Christianity better.The results of such approach is fatal for the whole world.They simply refused to see the fact that, even though Christianity was in