UDC 272-9(091)

Author:    BAHOVEC Igor
Ph.D., assistant professor, scientifc fellow
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology,
Poljanska 4, SI – 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Title:      CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL ASSOCIATIONS FROM THE TIME OF SLOMŠEK TO THE PRESENT

 

Studia Historica Slovenica
Časopis za družboslovne in humanistične študije / Humanities and Social Studies Review
Maribor, 10 (2010), No. 2–3, pp. 531–550, 38 notes, 2 tables, 1 picture

 

Category:   1.01 Original scientifc paper
Language:  Original in Slovene (Abstract in Slovene and English, Summary in English)

Key words:     intermediary institutions, civil associations, religious brotherhoods, Slomšek, Hermagoras society, brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Sunday Schools

Abstract:     The paper discusses civil and ecclesiastical associations in the intermediary social sphere in Slovenia from the mid-19th century until today. We frst look at the circumstances that led to the transition lasting several decades from pre-modern to modern forms of associations. In the central part we analyse Bishop Slomšek’s activities in the intermediary sphere which found an expression in Sunday schools, the Hermagoras Society, the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, reading  societies  etc. We are interested in the reasons for and goals of such extensive and successful work. We show the remarkable expansion of civil and ecclesiastical voluntary associational life at the end of the 19th and in the 20th centuries until its mass suspension during the occupation and Communism. The brief analysis of the current situation is concluded with a thesis about the unfnished transition of the Slovenian civil sphere.