Full text of the paper:
Proceedings of the Faculty of Law, Novi Sad
2024, vol. LVIII, no. 4, p. 957-971
working language: Serbian
Review paper
342.724-053.2(497.1)“ 1919/1941“ 347.471.7
doi:10.5937/zrpfns58-55850
Author:
Dalibor Đukić
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Law in Belgrade
dalibor.djukic@ius.bg.ac.rs
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1447-7128
Summary:
Immediately after the proclamation of the common state of the South Slavs, the process of harmonizing the religious legislation that was valid in the various historical provinces that became part of that state began. The regulations that regulated the organization and operation of individual religious organizations were passed only after the Six-Year Regime was introduced in 1929, while work on a general regulation that would regulate interfaith relations and the legal status of all religious organizations continued until 1941, when it was suspended due to the outbreak of World War II. One of the delicate matters that needed to be regulated by interconfessional legislation was the religious affiliation of children. The paper advocates the thesis that although various drafts of interfaith laws and regulations adopted, during the time in which they were created, the modern conception of determining the religious affiliation of children, conservative solutions were also retained that went in support of recognized and adopted religious confessions, which was in accordance with the current system of relations between the state and churches and religious communities in the Kingdom of SHS-Yugoslavia.
Keywords:
churches and religious communities, Kingdom of SHS, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, interfaith law, religious affiliation of children.