Marko Đorđević
Narodni muzej - NišA RELIGIOUS OVERVIEW OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLICSummary

The Roman Catholic Church is one of the pillars of the Dominican society. Its temples and cultural influences can be found stretching from the coast and the capital city to the remotest parts of the island. Social changes imposed by the aggressive liberalism in the second half of the twentieth century have not managed to usurp the dominance of Rome in the political, symbolic and cultural fields. Even the Dominican convertites, that is, the non-believers, preserve the basis of Catholic cultural patterns and tradition. However, the rapid surge of Protestants in Latin America (including the Dominican Republic), occuring as a result of the conversion of the Catholics, unprecedented since the...

Srđan Simić
Crkva Ružica
BeogradTHE SPLIT WITHIN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITYAbstract

In this work we deal with genealogical, historic-religious and also religious-political dimension of Islam as causes which instigated the split within the Muslim community. Mohammad's death triggered the crisis in leadership in newly formed community of faithful, whose schism initiated the creation of caliphate. This conflict around the caliphate happened after the murder of righteous caliph Osman, when three conflicting sides emerged: Haredgide, Sunnite, and Shiite. Despite the domination of Sunnite majority, Muslim community was quickly organized as a caliphate state, whose extremely quick penetration eastward couldn't be stopped neither by the Byzantium nor the Persian Empire. Key elements of creation of...

Dubravka Valić-Nedeljković
Filozofski fakultet, Novi SadMODEL OF RELIGIOUS FORMAT RADIOSummary

In this text, one of possible models of potential programme elaborate for religious radio is being presented. Format radio represents specialization of radio programme in a way that auditorium is seen as a type of consumer. The author of the text is creating programme elaborate for potential religious format radio, based on the article 45, point 2, of the Broadcasting law of Serbia. This article allows the possibility of existence of broadcasters who broadcast "specialized programmes, with basically same kind of topics for a content", which could be understood as a format radio.

Key words: format radio, religious content, churches, religious communities, auditorium, multiconfessions...

Srđan Sremac 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
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 VOICES FROM A JUNKY LIMBO AND THE HEAVEN AFTERWARDS:Proposal for a Narrative Investigation of Addicts Conversion Testimonies"Trying tae manage a junk problem is the ultimate challenge.It's also a ... good kick." (Welsh, Trainspotting, 1993: 90)Abstract

In this article, the author proposes a narrative approach to the investigation of conversion testimonies of former drug addicts. The author argues that narratives approach provide excellent examples of the characteristics of those who have undergone personal transformation and enables us to understand what the meaning of religion is in their stories and how they coped with drug addiction. Furthermore, the author argues that drug addicts' conversion...