Kaninska, Maja (2024) Study on Religious Freedom and Diversity of Three Social Systems: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. In: Religion Between Governance and Freedoms. Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-69879-8
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This paper will demonstrate the shift in the status of religiosity and religious freedom from the margins to the center of society in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia during the last four decades. This study relies on official documents, reports of the State Department, European organizations, and relevant sources, and an outline of the three key periods, will be presented. The first period, during the 1980s, the second in the late 90s and, finally, the beginning of the twenty-first century. Churches and religious communities in Yugoslav society (Yugoslav republics), and later in the independent states, show a different development process of religious freedom during these three periods. The work will show the process and movements, the freedom of religious communities in Serbia with the dominant Orthodox Church, in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a multi-religious composition, and in Slovenia, which is part of the EU, with a dominant Catholic Church, but with an increase in the Muslim population. Based on the analysis, this study shows that the states – former republics, derived from the common state – have different approaches to the issue of religious freedom. The engagement of religious representatives was not focused on religious premises or on the return of believers to church life, which would be expected. For that process, there was a so-called social space, because churches and religious communities already in the last decade, in the joint state, with the Law on Churches and Religious communities, got the opportunity to return to social circles. During the political events starting in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, it was shown that identification with natural and religious affiliation remains an integral part of the process of protecting religious freedom in areas that have suffered civil conflicts.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Religious freedom, Social systems |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Identity issues B Mission theology/theory > Social Justice/Mission as Justice and transformation G Christian traditions/Denominations > Roman Catholic |
| Divisions: | Balkan countries > Bosnia and Herzegovina Balkan countries > Croatia Balkan countries > Serbia Balkan countries > Slovenia |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2026 11:08 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jan 2026 11:08 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/3223 |
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