Original scientific paper
Church and State: European Context and Post-communist Experience
Siniša Zrinščak
; Faculty of Law, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper tries to explore the development of Church-State relations in Croatia and its possible social implications. In the first part, the paper focuses on the historical development of Church-State relations in Europe and its present meaning regarding the development of so called European pattern of religious believing without belonging as well in the context of post-communist situation in Central and Eastern Europe. After that, the paper presents reinterpretation of the facts of the actual development of Church-State relations in Croatia, especially those about Agreements with the Holy See on the status of the Catholic Church in Croatia. At the end, the paper discusses on relations between the Church-State relations and the development of the civil society in Croatia, which could be possible indicator of potentials of whole social development.
Keywords
church-state relations; Europe; Croatia; post-communism; civil society
Hrčak ID:
154437
URI
Publication date:
30.6.1998.
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