• Fr Joseph P Benadict

The term koinonia often refers to communion or fellowship and the phrase politike has its roots from the Greek city states- polis. Though koinonia politike is better to be translated as political association, it is now commonly used as civil society in political discussions with a quite different meaning from the Greek political context. In the 1970s, as the communist states began to disintegrate, intellectuals and political activists throughout Eastern Europe evoked the image of civil society to mobilize citizens against repressive states and reclaimed a sphere of privacy in social life. The language of civil society was picked up by people’s movements in large parts of the world. . It no longer became a politically constituted community, instead a sphere of critical reasoning. Sometimes it took the form of a democratically organised political opposition against the state apparatus (Antoinette Saxer). More concretely, it can also be understood as an ecosystem of organized and organic social and cultural relations existing in the space between the state, business, and family, which builds on indigenous and external knowledge, values, traditions, and principles to foster collaboration and the achievement of specific goals by and among citizens and other stakeholders. It may include CSOs comprising NGOs, faith-based organizations, and community-based organizations that have an organized structure and mission, online groups and activities, including social media communities, social movements of collective action and/or identity, labour unions and labour organizations representing workers, social entrepreneurs employing innovative and/or market-oriented approaches for social and environmental outcomes etc.

Koinonia Politike, Critical Reasoning, Social Movements, Non-Government Organizations

"Koinonia Politike- Sphere of Critical Reasoning", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.528-534, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W30.pdf

"Koinonia Politike- Sphere of Critical Reasoning", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp528-534, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W30.pdf