REFLEKSIJE O DRUŠTVU BEZ RELIGIJE: ALBANSKI SLUČAJ
REFLECTIONS ON SOCIETY WITHOUT RELIGION: ALBANIA'S CASE
Author(s): Denis JanzContributor(s): Rajka Rusan (Translator)
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Politics and religion, Evaluation research, Sociology of Politics, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Society; Religion; Albania;
Summary/Abstract: ln analyzing the process of secularization in modern societies, the author proposes the hypothesis about society without religion and presents his arguments by problematizing Albania's case. The extremely high degree of secularization of Albanian society is a consequence of hyper-Stallinism - the ideology of the former communist regime, the result of the regime's policy of extreme isolationism, and finally of brutal repression towards religious people and institutions. By analyzing the mentioned causes of the disappearance of religion in Albania, the author notices that even after the fall of communism and the democratization of Albanian society, and inspite of religious propaganda of different confessions, the renewal of religious life has not occured.
Journal: Društvena istraživanja - Časopis za opća društvena pitanja
- Issue Year: 4/1995
- Issue No: 20
- Page Range: 787-799
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Croatian