CONCEPTUALIZATION OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary dimensioning of the social passage includes interactive essential principle of all relevant socio-communal components. This pattern roughly sketches the contours of the global framework which gives equal importance as to the sustainable economic development and maintenance of the environment, and to the respect and promotion of the human rights and fundamental freedoms. The syncretism which is a referent of the so-called process – globalization, hence refers to the notation of identity, which one absorbs in one’s self the sociological aspects, such as: ethnicity, nationality, and religion too. The survey’s concluding results are significant generally and particularly. They give a general picture of the condition of religious group identity. At the same time they present the legal frame for the position of the religion or the church in Europe, including ours in that group. Following this sociological, refined, descriptive and comparative way, the communal fragments which are important steps of the Macedonia`s international road to the European Union, might be achieved. Religious identity realized through the religious rights and freedoms is crucial and indispensable component of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and R. Macedonia shows relatively high global standard harmonization in the field of religion and low internal religious diversity cohesion. This certainly has an impact on social fields such as education, politics, culture, and opens the way for new further research in the sociology of religion and its interactive and interdisciplinary perspective.

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