Original scientific paper
The Legal Status of Religious Communities in Croatian Law
Frane Staničić
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the development of the legal status of religious communities in Croatian law over a very long period. The author will analyze the legal status of religious communities in the Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Kingdom of Yugoslavia, socialist Yugoslavia and in the Republic of Croatia. The paper will show that this development has been rather slow, and yet in some periods abrupt. Special attention will be devoted to the question of the (un)constitutionality of the treaties into which the Republic of Croatia has entered with the Holy See. The author will show that those treaties are in accordance with the Constitution, but that there are several other issues regarding the legal status of other religious communities which could be deemed unconstitutional. The author will show that five types of religious communities can be distinguished in the Republic of Croatia today.
Keywords
religious communities; legal status; registration of religious communities; agreements between the Republic of Croatia and religious communities
Hrčak ID:
123103
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2014.
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