Političke stranke i religija – hrvatski slučaj
Political Parties and Religion – the Croatian Case

Author(s): Ivan Markešić
Subject(s): Civil Society, Politics and religion
Published by: Centar za politološka istraživanja
Summary/Abstract: There are still ongoing debates about whether political parties are the greatest evil in society, because their existence contributes to social conflicts, divisions and sometimes the collapse of some social communities, or whether political parties are one of the most important modern means of preserving democracy. There are also ongoing debates about whether religion is a private matter, or whether religion is a public matter, meaning a phenomenon that completely permeates the entire social sphere, or whether religion is the social factor that tries to influence contemporary society and thereby change it. This applies in particular to politics, but also to other subsystems of society understood in Luhmann's sense. Therefore, today, most of the talk is about different aspects of the relationship between the church, or religious communities, and politics, religion and culture, religion and science, and the politicization of religion and the religiosity of politics. However, it is rare to read a discussion about the relationship of today's political parties to religion. Namely, in today's era of overly cumbersome multi-party systems, individual and comparative discussions about the relationship between party and religion are rare, and they would be based on party documents - the statute and program - in which the relationship between the party and religion would be discussed on the basis of these documents.

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