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Starokatolicizam u Šaptinovcima. “Pitaju me iz kojeg sam sela, di je žuta i zelena v(j)era”
Old Catholicism in the Village of Šaptinovci

Author(s): Tihana Petrović
Contributor(s): Irena Naglić (Translator)
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Ethnohistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Rural and urban sociology, 19th Century
Published by: Hrvatsko etnološko društvo
Keywords: old Catholicism; Šaptinovci; ethnology; popular religiosity; Church;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Old Catholicism in the village of Šaptinovci near Našice (Slavonia, Croatia), as one among numerous interesting phenomena illustrating popular religiosity in the Našice area. Old Catholicism is the movement resulting from reformatory processes which took place in the framework of Catholic Church in Croatia in 1920’s. Only few researchers have so far dealt whith the causes, phenomenon and activities of movement and they were mostly historians, sociologists or theologists. However, the basic objective of the author’s ethnological research is to record and to describe the development of Old Catholic Church, taking as an example the village of Šaptinovci because it is the only still existing Old Catholic Church country parish in Croatia. The ways in which Old Catholicizm has reflected and influencedevery day life in the village are also analyzed.

  • Issue Year: 24/1994
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 53-73
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Croatian