Dr Tomislav BrankovicMinistry of Religious AffairsBelgradeNew religious movementsSummary

New religious movements, like a newer and growing in use term in observing activities of different religious groups, communities and organizations, is considered in at least two meanings. Thier main characteristic is that theu offer an exit from social and personal crisis to an individual.

New religious movements appear in the form of cults, pseudo-christian sects, most often as marginal newprotestants, occultistic and magic groups, different forms of yoga and meditation, far-east sects-pseudohinduistic sects and commercial cults. All these movements had a fertile ground to develop in the Former Yugoslav Republics, especially Serbia. Beside Churches and religious communities rooted in history...

Slobodan MartinovicPrijepoljeSummaryPrijepolje and its surroundings trough history

This study has been created with the intention of making a more complete overview of the origins and the relocation of the various archeological findings and monuments from the territory of the Prijepolje district, always present temptations of the city, and the vision of the city's development. Within this work, it was attempted to present the locations of the findings and the material remains from the earlier past in a more concise manner, and the recent past more documented and detailed so that the reader could have a clearer picture, in a shorter period of time, of the part played by this region in history and the history that has passed over it.

Key words: Prijepolje, history, Serbs, Bosnians...

Milica AleksicNovi SadJews in Novi SadSummary

The history of the ancient Jewish people is wrapped by mysticism and unknown, partly by the antiquity and partly by the circumstances Jews were in. In order to study Jewish community of today, it is necessary to get deeper into the historical records which describe in detail the history of the Jews and the conditions in which their community began and developed. Significant elements could also be found, in the rich historical archive, that could be used to answer questions that are of our interest and which motivate us to do research, and those questions are related to the possibility of survival of the religion among the nations with tendencies of their numbers decreasing. There is also the question of keeping the integrity of such...

Srđan BarišićBeogradSummaryJews in Belgrade

Jewish community in Belgrade has shared the bitter history of our capital city, and its historical position displayed the position of our society on the international scale, and on local daily-politics field, as well. For Jews, Balkan was often a good shelter for numerous pursuits, but, also, it was a nest for those who pursuited them. During the numerous migrations, from Iberian peninsula, till the settlement of Izrael, Jews were often travelling through Balkan. Some stayed, some kept travelling on, but certain number of them stayed here forming not numerous, but significant ethnic and confessional group. Today, Belgrade is pale dot on the map of dispersed Jews, and they are hardly noticeable. In this article we shall try to point out only...

Zorica Kuburić, Ph.D.Philosophical faculty,Novi Sad.RELIGIOUS COMMUNIY IN SERBIA AND RELIGIOUS DISTANCESummary

Query about the happiness of those who are different in their given or ascribed identity, those who believe differently and belong to another "god", started at an early age, in elementary school, when I first met children who were rejected for emphasizing their religious identity. Before the collapse of the communist ideology, religiousness was generally marginalized and believers were a minority irrespective of their confession. However, with the onset of the 1990s, religiousness became desirable, as did, naturally, affiliation to the majority religion. I shall attempt to review the current situation in the religious sphere in general, by looking at it from several different...