Limitation of Freedom of Religion in Conditions of the Pandemic: Case of Montenegro Cover Image

Ограничење слободе вероисповести у условима пандемије: пример Црне Горе
Limitation of Freedom of Religion in Conditions of the Pandemic: Case of Montenegro

Author(s): Vladimir Đurić, Vasilije Marković
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Свети Архијерејски Синод
Keywords: freedom of religion; Eucharist; epidemic; proportionality test; Моntenegro

Summary/Abstract: The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has brought up many health, legal, socioeconomic and geopolitical concerns and uncertainties. The authors attempt to answer one, so far rarely treated, narrow legal question — the exercise of freedom of religion in its collective aspect in the conditions of pandemic. With offering the wider picture (justification) of securitization as a state response to the emerging danger, the central point of work remains a problem where medicine, law and theology are intertwined. The answer to the question of whether, at a time of de facto or de jure state of emergency, freedom of religion and especially its collective aspect can be restricted, and what a restrictive measure it must (not) be to satisfy the proportionality requirement under the proportionality test, the authors will offer on the example of regulation of this issue in Montenegro.

  • Issue Year: LIII/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 761-786
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Serbian