RELIGlOSE MINDERHEITEN UND TOLERANZ

Uovom radu promišlja se jedna razina odnosa dviju manjih vjerskih zajednica u Hrvatskoj: Evanđeoske crkve i Kršćanske vjerske zajednice Jehovinih svjedoka prema drugim religijama i prema ekumenizmu u multikonfesionalnoj državi. Metodom analize sadržaja tiska problematizira se razina odnosa uredništva, s kojeg se značajno može generalizirati na stavove vodstva zajednice prema spomenutim pitanjima. Stavovi dviju analiziranih zajednica sasvim su oprečni, ali su i tolerancija pentekostalaca i netolerancija Jehovinih svjedoka doktrinarno utemeljeni na Bibliji. Dok Izvori svoje vjernike upućuju na angažirani život u suvremenom trenutku Hrvatske i na tolerantnost prema onima koji drukčije misle, Kula stražara zahtijeva bezuvjetnu neutralnost prema svim svjetovnim događanjima i apostrofira izabranost Jehovinih svjedoka kao nositelja jedine prave religije, iz čega proizlazi i netolerantan odnos prema svim drukčijim (pa i religijskim) svjetonazorima.Alevel of relations between two smaller religious communities in Croatia: the Evangelical Church and the Christian religious community of Jehovah\u27s Witnesses towards other religions and ecumenism in a multi-confessional state is being dealt with in this paper. The method of content analysis of their magazines is used to problematize the level of relations of the editorial board, which can be significantly generalized to attitudes of the community leadership, towards the issues mentioned. Although the attitudes of the two analyzed communities are completely opposite, both the tolerance of Pentecostalists and the intolerance of Jehovah\u27s Witnesses have been doctrinarily founded on the Bible. While Izvori (Wells) instructs their readers to become engaged in the current events in Croatia, Kula stražara (The Watchtower) insists on unconditional neutrality towards all lay events and apostrophizes that Jehovah\u27s Witnesses were chosen as the bearers of the only true religion, producing thus an intolerant relationship towards all different (including religious) viewpoints.Yorliegende Arbeit untersucht ein Segment im Verhaltnis zweier religi6ser Minderheiten in Kroatien, der Evangelistischen Kirche (Pfingstler) und der Christlichen Glaubensgemeinschaft der Zeugen Jehovas, zu anderen Religionen und zum Okumenismus im multikonfessionellen Staat. Mittels einer Analyse von Druckerzeugnissen wird die Haltung der jeweiligen Redaktionen problematisiert, aus der sich wiederum auf die Einstellung der jeweiligen Gemeinschaftsleitung zu den erwahnten Fragen schlie- ~en la~t. Die Standpunkte der beiden analysierten Glaubensgemeinschaften sind V611igkontrar, auch wenn sich die Toleranz der Pfingstler einerseits und die Intoleranz der Zeugen Jehovas andererseits doktrinar auf der Bibel grOndet. Wahrend Izvori (Quellen) seine Leser zu einem engagierten Leben im zeitgen6ssischen Kroatien und zu Toleranz gegenOber Andersdenkenden an halt, fordert Kula stražara (Wachtturm) von den Glaubigen bedingungslose Neutralitat gegenOber allen weltlichen Ereignissen und apostrophiert die Auserwahltheit der Zeugen Jehovas als der Trager der einen und wahren Religion, woraus sich eine intoIerante Einstellung gegenOber allen anderen (einschllejšllch der religi6sen) Weltanschauungen ergibt