Religion And Religious Education In Serbia In The Xxi Century – From Formal To Informal And Vice Versa

Maksimović, Marijana and Cvetićanin, Neven (2023) Religion And Religious Education In Serbia In The Xxi Century – From Formal To Informal And Vice Versa. In: Religious Education and Religiosity of Young People. The Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade Forum for Religious Issues and Center for Sociological and Anthropological Research The Center for Empirical Research of Religion, Novi Sad, The 8th Annual International Conference, Belgrade, pp. 28-29. ISBN 978-86-7093-269-2

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Abstract

lChristianity represents a two-millennia old heritage which in its long period of origin and development often determined social (educational, cultural, but also political) and personal (people’s activities, perceptions, level oconsumption) aspects olie. For centuries in Serbia, through tradition and experience, knowledge, belies and rituals have been ac- quired and transmitted by the Church as an institution. However, reli- gious teachings and rituals were also passed on byamilies, observing Orthodox Christian holidays and practicing customs in their households. In Serbia, therst schools wereounded in monasteries, and one o those schools was attended by theamous educators Dositej Obradović and Vuk SteanovićKaradžić, who would become the main reormers oculture and education and who contributed to the development o literacy, as well as to the general enlightenment in Serbia. In addition, therst copies obooks were made in these very same monasteries, and they today represent valuable testimonies omedieval culture in this region. From the 19th century until the Second World War, religious education had been compulsory in schools, ater which it was abolished and atheism was advocated as a substituteor religion, although the Yugoslav liberal version osocialism was not as rigid towards religion, as some other communist regimes. However, religious education was not taught in Serbiaor many years, until the renewed wave ore-tra- ditionalization oSerbian society at the beginning othe 21st century, returned religious education courses into the system o ormal educa- tion, i.e. into schools. Thereore, today it is possible to acquire general ormal religious education through primary and secondary schooling, but also to acquire proessional knowledge through specialized educational institutions, such as,or example, The Orthodox Faculty oTheology. The same applies to other traditional religious communities in Serbia (Catho- lic, Protestant, Islamic and Jewish), as they are able to implement their own religious education programs without hindrance in Serbia. However, the accelerated technological development and many social changes brought into question the currentness of the religious teaching in its existingorm, but also opened up theollowing question: “Is it possible to acquire religious education through other social disciplines?”, that is, the issue of modernization of religious education and its adaptation to the spirit otime, which will be the topic oour scientic work.

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