Between ideology and pragmatism: polemic on the civil rights of Christians in the socialist Slovenia of the 1970s

In this article I discuss the controversy concerning the rights of believers which developed among younger theologians, some laymen and some representatives of the faithful on the one hand, and communist politicians and Marxist theorists on the other, in Slovenia in the 1970s. In comparison with oth...

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Main Author: Ramšak, Jure (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2015]
In: Religion, state & society
Year: 2015, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 168-183
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Slovenia / Socialism / Christian / Civil rights movement / History 1970-1980
Further subjects:B League of Communists of Yugoslavia
B Yugoslavia
B rights of believers
B self-management socialism
B Marxism
B law on religion
B Religious Discrimination
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)

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