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Religious Freedom in Contemporary Croatia

The paper reviews the status of religious freedom in Croatia after the first democratic elections after the promulgation of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia in 1990. The first part gives an overview of major religious groups that operate in Croatia, as well as the number of members of each community. It analyzes the legal status of religious communities and believers in general in Croatia with regard to constitutional arrangements and the need for the adoption (or failure) of a special law on religious communities. Emphasis is placed on the equality of religious communities, and the main problems faced in everyday life. In the second part of the article are given the results of a study conducted among representatives of 11 major religious communities in Croatia, who filled a short questionnaire. Based on the results of crystallized the current state of religious freedom in Croatia, the main problems noted are: the Catholic Church a privileged status, the question of the law on religious communities, opposition to the proposal of the census (the number of members who must have a particular religious group if we want to register), the issue of school religious instruction, and unequal access to media.

religious freedom, constitution, legal position, religious communities, Catholic Church, citizen-believers, representatives of religious communities in Croatia

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