SNAGA ILI KRIZA CRKVE
Power or Crisis of the Church

Author(s): Ivan Cvitković
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Politics and religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Church; crisis; religion; religious teaching; politics; nationalism; the past; myth; paedophilia; marriage; moral
Summary/Abstract: Does a sociologist have a right to deal with the Church? What is it all that creates impressions of the Church’s power: post-socialistic time; return to religion; introduction of the religious teachings into schools; Construction of worship; folk religiosity; Indicators of the crisis of the Church: a betrayal of an organized religion; greediness for the material; connection of the Church with the politics; connections of the Church with nationalism; obsession with fear from the other; oppression with the past; myth and mythical telling; obsession of the Church with “communism”; paedophilic affairs in the Church; fall of frequency of going to the Church; decrease of the number of candidates for priesthood; decrease of the number of the Church weddings; re-growth of bi-confessional marriages; disrespect of moral attitudes of the Church by believers; disappointment in the Church due to unfulfilled hopes.

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