Pravno-religijski modeli Evropske unije i Crne Gore: Pravoslavno pitanje i jeretički odgovor
The Legal-Religious Models of the Eu and Montenegro: The Orthodox Question and Heretical Response

Summary/Abstract: The paper is the first text in a series entitled “Law-religious Models of the European Union and Montenegro”. It examines the variable of the Montenegrin “Orthodox question”, through the optics of “memory mutation”, borrowed from one of the leading sociologists of religion, Grace Davy. This is an attempt to clarify the murky waters of current interpretations, returning to the source of key civil and canonical acts of the Kingdom of Montenegro and the search for the true meaning of their provisions, through authentic interpretations of their creators — Valtazar Bogisic and Nikodim Milas. On that Verstehen path, we stop at those places where the primary historical sources are condensed, and on which the author bases his contributions to answer the Montenegrin “Orthodox question”, such as “Monument to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the archbishopric service of His Eminence Metropolitan of Montenegro Mitrofan Ban”. The goal of this path is to determine the coordinates for the synthetic overcoming of thesis and antithesis in the dialectic of Montenegrin identity controversy, as a broader, antecedent variable, from which the Montenegrin “Orthodox question” arises, requiring an answer as a precondition for the final establishment of a sustainable law-religious model of Montenegro depends.

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