Уставни оквир односа државе и цркава и верских заједница
Constitutional framework of relations between the state and churches and religious communities

Summary/Abstract: Although the secular character of the state is not questionable in Europe,regarding the relations between the state on one hand and the church and religiouscommunities on the other, different models can be noted. They are conditioned bythe tradition, the historical circumstances of the development of certain countries,culture and a modern social role of the church and religious communities.Regardless the constitutional model of the relationship, the guarantee of fullreligious freedom, which includes an individual and corporative component withcertain differences in coverage of constitutional guarantees, presents one of themain European standards, which experienced a certain progression in the secondhalf of the 20th century in terms of the guarantee of additional rights, wider defining,and the tendencies of development of multiple relations between the state and thechurch and religious communities. Besides, the limitations of this freedom or workof religious communities and the possibilities of their ban are restrictively explainedand applied. Bearing in mind the international guarantees, comparative experiences,constitutional framework of the relations between the state and the church andreligious communities, as well as religious freedom, in Serbia it is on the level of thehighest standards, which, unquestioning their separation, provides enough wideopportunities for the development of multiple cooperation and valorisation of thepositive role of the church and religious communities in public life.

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