Naslov
Ecclestiastical Movements in Croatia: Some Indicators of Mutual Acquaintance and Tolerance

Autori
Tadić, Stipan ; Mihaljević Vine

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Religion and patterns of social transformation

Urednik/ci
Marinović-Jerolimov, Dinka ; Zrinščak, Siniša ; Borowik, Irena

Izdavač
Institut za društvena istraživanja

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2004

Raspon stranica
315-329

ISBN
953-6218-16-X

Ključne riječi
ecclesiastical movements, tolerance

Sažetak
Cclesiastical lay movements, as well, is focused on the concern of the meaning of the human existence. Religion (only) gives the (valid) answers to the questions of the global meaning. Therefore, it is understandable why the authentic religious dimensions of life got rehabilitated in the new religious and church lay movements: the questions of the absolute meaning of the human existence, searching for the full meaning of one’s own life, unappeasable searching for a personal sensation of the holy. Especially promising is a possibility of the personal, direct sensation of the holy. All these are the questions that modern secularisation has completely marginalized. This is the reason why the anti- secularisation dimensions of life are strongly emphasized in the modern religious revival. The very thing that had preceded the anti-secularisation processes on a global social scale, and what has been clearly manifested in the NRM and the ecclesiastical lay movements, was a total undermining of the foundations and destroying the religious contents of the world of modernism. Foremost, it is the belief in sciences, linear progress, fake promises of the social utopia, spectacular terminating of great ideologies, respectively, worldly religions and their transcending into the mentalities. The modern religious revival represents a strong anti-secularisation process. NRM, the new ecclesiastical lay movements and the ‘religions of the young’ at the end of the 60s are a quite obvious evidence of this phenomenon. The new ecclesiastical lay movements, as we already mentioned, emerge in the Catholic Church in Croatia by the end of the 60s and in the 70s. At these post-Council times a very intense religious life awakens and grows in the Catholic Church – and a charismatic movement emerges. For the purpose of this research, we were interested, firstly, in the topic of the intra-church dialogue ‘ad intra’, respectively, in the mutual acquaintance and cooperation of the members of different ecclesiastical lay movements. After that, our intention was to assess the willingness, or unwillingness of the members of the ecclesiastical lay movement for a dialogue ‘ad extra’: readiness for ecumenical activities (the attitude towards the sects of the Christian provenance) and for an inter-religions dialogue (the attitude towards the New Religious Movements). The results of the research show that the members of the interviewed ecclesiastical lay movements are poorly acquainted with the charisma, respectively the fundamental mission, the activities and spirituality of other ecclesiastical lay movements they don’t belong to. Obviously, this caused the unwillingness of the members for cooperation with the members of other movements. So, the lack of communication among the members of different movements is not surprising. Establishing of one umbrella organisation, respectively a coordination body of the ecclesiastical movements in Croatia, would probably help better communication, openness, knowledge and cooperation of the members of the ecclesiastical movements. It is ‘ad intra’ dialogue within the Catholic Church, we are speaking of. Further, the obtained results demonstrate that the attitude of a specific movement towards the sects of the Christian provenance is to a great extent negative and disqualifying, while considering the new non-Christian religious movements, it is rather positive. First of all, the very fact that the attitude towards the NRM is considerably more affirmative than to the sects, is quite surprising. A relatively closed atmosphere within the interviewed ecclesiastical movements contributes to the (sectarian) inaccessibility as well, as to a quite negative attitude towards a further pluralisation of the already plural religious scene in the Croatian society. This in turn generates new tensions and intolerance, and sometimes exclusivism. Such results were indisputably influenced by recent war events, problems and tensions of the transitional period of the Croatian society.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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