Религија, религиозност и савремена култура Од мистичног до (и)рационалног и vice versa
Religion, Religiosity and Contemporary Culture From Mystical to (I)rational and vice versa

Author(s): Milica Bakić-Hayden
Subject(s): Anthropology, Theology and Religion
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: religion; secularism; globalization; Orthodox Church; Balkans
Summary/Abstract: The article examines the relationship between religion and secularism with special reference to the experience of Orthodox churches in the contemporary Balkans. The emergence of religion as a key identity marker in the postcommunist countires, its greater visibilty and participation in public life have been perceived by some scholars as a threat to the secular nature of the fledgeling democracies like Serbia. Such views tend to essentialize both religion and secularism as the static “either/or” binary opposites, while failing to see different ways in which religion functions in a complex global system of networks characterized by interconnectedness of religious, socio-economic, political and, most of all, sophisticated systems of communication technologies. The responses to the challenge of globalized culture vary from the strengthening of ethnoreligious neo-traditionalism to religiously uncommitted acceptance of one’s religious culture to individual pursuit (owing to Internet) of selected aspects of one’s own or other religious practices.

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