In the scientific monograph, based on Vatican documents, one of the key issues of the first Yugoslavia – Yugoslav concordat – is explored. The thematic analysis opens original insights into basic issues of the new State, covering legal, national, interreligious, political and social aspects. After the theoretical introduction follows a part on concordat negotiations and the central part dealing with the circumstances and reasons why the concordat, signed in 1935 and confirmed in the parliament in 1937, never came into force. The opposition against the ratification of the concordat, which linked Serbian Orthodox Church with all opposing political parties, some societies and movements, incited the most serious interreligious and political conflict in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which sew long-lasting discord between the Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Church.
COBISS.SI-ID: 291160832
The contribution discusses convergences and divergences between Italian Fascism and Catholicism in interwar Italy at three levels: the governmental, statal and regional (the specific case of the newly annexed multi-ethnic borderland Venezia Giulia). Important convergences were also the antagonism towards non-Catholic religions and Jews, latter in great numbers in the diocese Trieste-Koper converted to Catholicism. Various discourses of power on political and religious field, that are in society reflected in secular and religious contexts, are analysed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1539048388
During the interwar period, majority of Slovenian and Croatian refugees from Italian new province of Julian March (Venezia Giulia) immigrated to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Because of the Fascist policy of forced assimilation of minorities and silence of the Holy See in this regard, as well as strong anti‑Catholic propaganda from the side of Yugoslav authorities, the critical sentiment towards the Catholic Church arose among the immigrants from Venezia Giulia, which resulted also in conversions to Serbian Orthodox Church. The latter was considered a religion in line with the ideology of Yugoslavism. Due to lack of historical sources, the focus is on two cases: colony of Littoral Slovenes in Bistrenica in Macedonia, where nearly half of the people converted voluntarily or involuntarily, and the Serbian Orthodox community in Celje. In this Slovenian town high percentage of Slovenian converts were immigrants.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1539784388
In this chapter author explores the history of inter-religious relation in Slovenia, mostly in the interwar period, by focusing on two phenomena: cooperation between Christian denominations (in the form of first incentives for ecumenism) and religious conversion. Both phenomena involve unconventional encounters, while religious conversions usually also triggered conflictual responses.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1540130244