STANJE RELIGIOZNOSTI U BIVŠOJ JUGOSLAVIJI NEPOSREDNO PRED RAT 1991
THE STATE OF RELIGIOSITY IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA JUST BEFORE THE WAR OF 1991

Summary/Abstract: This study confirmed the findings of former researches that the least religious, according to their own declaration are Montenegrins. Macedonians and Serbs, that is the members of nations from the Orthodox civilization circle. On the territory of the entire former Yugoslavia, among the Orthodox there were 8.5% persuaded believers (PB) and 18(9% believers who did not accept all that the religion teaches (BNA). Members of Muslim confession declared greater degree of persuaded belief (25% PB) than Catholics (19.4% PB). but lower degree of faith without acceptance of all that religion teaches (25%) than Catholics (33.4% BNA). It is concluded that the identilication with orthodoxy of Montenegrins. Macedonians and in somewhat smaller degree of Serbs in Serbia, mostly had the meaning of the confirmation of specific cultural identity, but not also of the belief. In contrast to this, relatively low identification of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina with Islam existed simultaneously with the relatively high percentage of PB.

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