Конфесионалне границе у Банату: пример Срба у Банатској клисури
Confessional Borders in Banat: the Case of Serbs in the Danube Gorge

Author(s): Aleksandra Đurić-Milovanović
Subject(s): Anthropology, Sociology, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Serbs in Romania; religious identity; confessional borders; Baptists; orthodox
Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is to examine the role of symbolic borders between different confessional communities in the multicultural area of Romanian Banat. Living in an ethnically and confessionally heterogeneous environment, Serbs in Romania, although majority belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church, during the last decades, also converted and became members of different neo-Protestant communities. This paper is based on ethnographic field research conducted in August 2010 among the Serbian communities living in the region of the Danube gorge, in western Romania, where neo-Protestant communities are most numerous. One of the aims of this paper is to analyze the perception of the religious other, i.e. the way the Orthodox Serbs see themselves in relation to Serbs, members of some other confession (non-Orthodox Serbs) as well as the way in which Serbs, members of one minority religion articulate their religious identity and build relations with the confession accepted by the majority group.

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