Professional paper
MINORITY CHURCHES AND TOLERANCE
Ankica Marinović-Bobinac
; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb
Abstract
Alevel of relations between two smaller religious communities
in Croatia: the Evangelical Church and the Christian religious
community of Jehovah's Witnesses towards other religions and
ecumenism in a multi-confessional state is being dealt with in this
paper. The method of content analysis of their magazines is used
to problematize the level of relations of the editorial board, which
can be significantly generalized to attitudes of the community leadership,
towards the issues mentioned. Although the attitudes of
the two analyzed communities are completely opposite, both the
tolerance of Pentecostalists and the intolerance of Jehovah's
Witnesses have been doctrinarily founded on the Bible. While
Izvori (Wells) instructs their readers to become engaged in the
current events in Croatia, Kula stražara (The Watchtower) insists
on unconditional neutrality towards all lay events and apostrophizes
that Jehovah's Witnesses were chosen as the bearers of the
only true religion, producing thus an intolerant relationship towards
all different (including religious) viewpoints.
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Hrčak ID:
32150
URI
Publication date:
1.3.1996.
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