THE NEW BULGARIAN LEGISLATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
THE NEW BULGARIAN LEGISLATION ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Summary/Abstract: After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria redefined a new model of relations between Church and State, focused on a privileged status of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. This new model was completed after World War II, with the communist revolution that introduced a forced model of atheism, with the terrible collateral consequences of intolerance and religious persecutions. The end of the communist age brought a new wave of legal changes, and currently, the model of religious freedom in Bulgaria is a paradigm of tolerance. This conclusion is clearer if we compare with other Balkan countries, devastated by bloody wars that had opened terrible social injures. In this paper we will try to learn more from the Bulgarian model.

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