The issue of the ideological affiliation of teachers in socialist schools was brought up soon after World War Two, but never fully resolved. The article talks about the heated debate at the time of ideological escalations in the 1970s, when the League of Communists dealt a blow to the concept of ideologically neutral school, but still had to recognise as a compromise the reality of the late-Socialist period and could not afford an open division between religious and non-religious. The result of the debate, involving highly educated individuals, satisfied neither the advocates of the religious nor those on the side of the Marxist establishment. Later, the newly emerging democratic opposition also drew attention to the concealed establishment of a communist monopoly in staff rooms. Nevertheless, the findings of the younger generation of sociologists of religion in particular contributed to the recognition that the pedagogical skills of teachers was more important than their religious affiliation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 528465433
As the central progressivist-oriented theological publication in Slovenia in the period following Vatican II, the journal Znamenje displayed an openness to dialogue regarding secular ideologies, at the time primarily represented by Marxist socialism, as well as to an ecumenical dialogue concerning other religions, Christian in particular. Only a limited number of translated articles and original writings, which emerged particularly on the margins of the so-called ecumenical journeys of Slovene priests and lay persons to Russia, were dedicated directly to the Soviet Union and Russian Orthodox Church. However, taking into account the broader theological and social engagement of their authors, these privileged insights delineate a comparison between two distinctly different political systems and religious milieus and chalk out possible ways for the (reformed) Christian culture to gain a greater acknowledgement both in the Soviet and, consequently, in the Yugoslav socialist society, which can be considered an original Slovene contribution to the Vatican’s Eastern policy of that time.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2519507
The chapter presents religious composition and interreligious relations in the Slovenian part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as well as in the diocese of Trieste-Capodistria. Special focus is on religious conversions to non-Catholic religious communities, that raised several objections from the side of the Catholic Church as a majority religion. In the interwar period we can observe beginnings of religious pluralization and also greater visibility and presence of secular ideologies. Parallel to persistent religious-political tensions, several incentives for interreligious collaboration have been developed, firstly between the Catholic Church and Christian Orthodoxy, and later, especially after the Second Vatican Council in the scope of the interreligious dialogue, opened to people of all faiths, including fostering the dialogue between the Christians and Marxists.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2519251