Church and State: European Context and Post-communist Experience

Rad nastoji osvijetliti razvoj crkveno-državnih odnosa u Hrvatskoj i moguće društvene implikacije toga razvoja. Stoga se, najprije, fokusira povijesni razvoj crkveno-državnih odnosa u Europi i njegovo današnje značenje s obzirom na razvoj tzv. europskog obrasca religijskog vjerovanja bez pripadanja te razvoj tih odnosa u kontekstu postkomunističke situacije Srednje i Istočne Europe. Potom se reinterpretiraju činjenice o aktualnom razvoju crkveno-državnih odnosa u Hrvatskoj, a posebno one vezane uz sklapanje posebnih Ugovora sa Svetom Stolicom o statusu Katoličke crkve. Na kraju se raspravlja o vezi crkveno-državnih odnosa i razvoja civilnog društva u Hrvatskoj, kao mogućem pokazatelju potencijala ukupnoga društvenog razvoja.The paper tries to explore the development of Church-State relations in Croatia and its possible social implications. In the first part, the paper focuses on the historical development of Church-State relations in Europe and its present meaning regarding the development of so called European pattern of religious believing without belonging as well in the context of post-communist situation in Central and Eastern Europe. After that, the paper presents reinterpretation of the facts of the actual development of Church-State relations in Croatia, especially those about Agreements with the Holy See on the status of the Catholic Church in Croatia. At the end, the paper discusses on relations between the Church-State relations and the development of the civil society in Croatia, which could be possible indicator of potentials of whole social development