184 KB53 KB201120252025Ramšak, Jureštevilka:117/118letnik:30str. 141-161DOI:10.35469/poligrafi.2025.471ISSN:1318-8828COBISSID_HOST:244919043URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-LP0K3TFGenDruštvo za primerjalno religiologijoPoligrafiChurch-State relationscivil rights of believerscivilne pravice vernikovJugoslavijaodnosi med Cerkvijo in državosamoupravni socializemself-management socialismSloveniaSlovenijaYugoslaviaThe problem with courtesy| wooing the Catholic Church in late socialist Slovenia|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 legacyV 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 dvoumnaTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaZnanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper