Tag: Serbia
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Patriarch with Two Homelands
by Slavica Jakelić | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски On February 18th, the Serbian Orthodox Church elected its new patriarch—59-year old Porfirije Perić. The new Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovac and Patriarch of Serbia, is a theologian who served for a year as the bishop of […]
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Must Orthodoxy Be a Barrier to Liberal Democracy? The Case of Serbia 1903-1914
by Boris Begović | ελληνικά | ру́сский | српски It is obvious that the fall of communism made the Orthodox face issues regarding democratic secularism. By secularism, I mean not the decline-of-religion meaning, which has been completely discredited, but secularism understood as pluralism, according to Aristotle Papanikolaou, as he defined it recently at his keynote lecture, […]
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Evolution and Science Curriculum Debates in Serbia
by Gayle Woloschak and Tatjana Paunesku | ελληνικά | ру́сский Recently in Serbia “a group of interested citizens” with signatures from more than 50 academicians and 100 additional people with postgraduate degrees (including 5 clergyman) released a petition to “revise the curriculum for study of evolution.” This petition was circulated to Serbian universities, as well as to […]