Political dimension to missionary work
The article reviews the series of modern phenomena involving the formation of the political institutions and developments’ objective function through missionary work. The political aspect of religion actualizes certain objectives that, in theory, meet the interests and the ideology of the power centers, but, in reality, differentiate and divide the body politic. Ultimately, these objectives determine the respective distinctive features and characteristics of the government and its work. Missionary work turned out to be religion’s most effective tool for the implementation of its political functions in the current social and political circumstances. It progressively intertwines with the political systems’ stability problems and their ideological consistency and with the control and decision making mechanisms that facilitate those systems. It is the very reason why the author considers any threat to the major communal relations as an act of defiance against the government that is quite sensitive to the disruption of its ideological basis. As any other political phenomenon, religion is the generating platform for social conflict directed at gaining and keeping the governmental power. In view of this, the analysis of the modern missionary work as a form of political process, manifesting itself in the intergroup and institutional levels, must be considered incredibly important and relevant.