Straipsnyje atskleidžiama filosofijos kaip mokomosios disciplinos samprata ir raida Lietuvos bendrojo lavinimo vidurinėse mokyklose 1992–2007 metais. Aprašomi filosofijos dėstymui parengti standartai, mokymo programos ir jų turinio problematika. Taip pat apžvelgiami ugdymo procesui naudojami filosofijos vadovėliai, filosofijos olimpiadų užduotys ir jų organizavimo struktūra. Straipsnyje gilinamasi į praktinius filosofijos mokytojo ir mokinių santykių aspektus, svarstomos kai kurios aktualios filosofijos kaip mokomojo dalyko didaktikos problemos, aptariamos ir siūlomos mokinių pažangos vertinimo formos.

The article analyzes the background of the Catholic folk devotion practices devoted to Jesus Christ and their expression in Lithuania. The research validated the assumption that folk devotion practices devoted to Jesus Christ in Lithuania are prayed and sung during Lent, Celebration of June, funeral and commemoration of the dead.

Anthropologists have been almost unanimous in rejecting the universalist claims of secularization theory. They have, however, engaged with notions of secularism (a political ideology of church-state separation) and secularity (a culture and habitus of areligiousness). In this article, four such approaches are sketched: Talal Asad’s analysis of the interpenetration of secularism and history throughout Western history, studies of secularism as state ideology in Turkey and elsewhere, studies of secularism as an ideology of social closure against Islam in contemporary Western Europe, and studies of the role of secularity in the formerly socialist countries in the aftermath of an atheist state policy. Conclusions drawn from these approaches may point the way toward a more synchronized anthropological engagement with the secular as both an analytical and a folk concept.