20.500.12556/DiRROS-23214 The problem with courtesy wooing the Catholic Church in late socialist Slovenia Težava z vljudnostjo: dvorjenje Katoliški cerkvi v poznosocialistični Sloveniji particularly in comparison with the neighbouring republic of Croatia, where the ethnicization of religion, beginning in the early 1970s, was rather pronoun-ced, relations between the Catholic Church and state authorities in Slovenia – the northernmost republic of Yugoslavia – remained relatively calm and cooperative throughout the late socialist period. Based on an analysis of a wide range of pu-blic and archival documents, this paper demonstrates how Slovenian religious policy was proposed as a sophisticated example of how believers could be success-fully integrated into modern socialist society, and was presented as such to Vati-can diplomats, international experts, and foreign journalists. Up until 1990, the communication between party officials and the Church hierarchy conveyed a di-stinct tone of courtesy, and local priests generally encountered a supportive or at least unobstructive attitude when, for instance, proposing the construction of new churches. At the same time, however, the more independent intellectuals, Catholi-cs and Marxists alike, who urged the party to abandon its orthodox Marxist-Leni-nist understanding of religion in favour of a genuine dialogue, were marginalized. Thus, a proper debate about a topic so essential for socialist secular society never took place, and the late socialist religious policy left behind an ambiguous legacy. V nasprotju zlasti s sosednjo Hrvaško, kjer je bila etnicizacija religije, ki se je začela v zgodnjih sedemdesetih letih 20. stoletja, precej izrazita, so Katoliška cer-kev in državne oblasti v Sloveniji skozi celotno poznosocialistično obdobje ohran-jale razmeroma mirne in sodelovalne odnose. Članek na podlagi analize številnih javnih in arhivskih dokumentov prikazuje, kako je bila slovenska religijska politika vatikanskim diplomatom, mednarodnim strokovnjakom in tujim novinarjem predstavljena kot zgled uspešnega vključevanja vernikov v moderno socialistično družbo. Do leta 1990 je komunikacija med partijskimi funkcionarji in cerkve-no hierarhijo potekala v izrazito vljudnostnem tonu in na splošno so bili lokalni duhovniki, kadar so, denimo, predlagali gradnjo novih cerkva, deležni vsaj ne-nasprotovanja, če že ne odkrite podpore. Istočasno pa so bili potisnjeni na rob ne-odvisni intelektualci ‒ tako med katoličani kot marksisti ‒, ki so partijo pozivali, naj opusti ortodoksno marksistično-leninistično razumevanje religije in se zavza-me za pristen dialog. Tako do prave razprave o tej temi, ključni za socialistično sekularno družbo, nikoli ni prišlo, zapuščina poznosocialistične religijske politike pa ostaja dvoumna. Church-State relations Yugoslavia Slovenia self-management socialism civil rights of believers odnosi med Cerkvijo in državo Jugoslavija Slovenija samoupravni socializem civilne pravice vernikov true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Copyright (c) 2025 Jure Ramsak Neznano 2025-08-05 15:43:51 2025-08-05 15:43:52 2025-10-24 03:53:40 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 141-161 št. 117/118 Let. 30 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-07-07 94(497.4) 1318-8828 10.35469/poligrafi.2025.471 244919043 https://ojs.zrs-kp.si/index.php/poligrafi/article/view/471 1 3a0e1ed5-7202-11f0-9bb7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=34169 25_08_05_101_244919043_Ramsak.pdf 25_08_05_101_244919043_Ramsak.pdf 1 35594F0297FA8EB2A850D1666FABB02A c0c01e48fcf87ae4f5444f46106c0c2544a13ab28ae95cb1792d4ccd25cd9060 88c76e3c-7202-11f0-9bb7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=34170 Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper / Centro di Ricerche Scientifiche Capodistria 0 0 0