RELIGIJA I POLITIKA - SIMPTOMATIČNI PRIMJER BIVŠE JUGOSLAVIJE DEVEDESETIH GODINA 20. STOLJEĆA
RELIGION AND POLITICS - A SYMPTOMATIC EXAMPLE OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA IN THE 1990s

Author(s): Srđan Vrcan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Civil Society, Politics and religion, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Sociology of Religion
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: religion; politicization of religion; ethnicization of politics; former Yugoslavia; desecularization; retraditionalization
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the role of religion and religious communities in the conflicts that marked the breakup of Yugoslavia and in general the 90s of the last century. The author investigates the structural affinities in the relationship between religion and nationalism and records a shift away from the deep-rooted separation of the state and religion and the church, and, therefore, from the secular state and secularized state policy, in the direction of eliminating the strict separation of the state and religion and the church, which implies the gradual dismantling of the secular character of the state. The processes of ethnicization of politics and politicization of the ethnic, as part of which the aforementioned desecularization takes place, also reveal the connection between the revitalization of religion and the intense renewal of ethno-nationalism. The cultural-political consequence of that process is manifested in the affirmation of a special type of democracy, the so-called. democracy of sameness, which reconciles political demands for relativity with the absolutist demands of religion of a cultural and ethical character.

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