О доданашњој историји римокатоличке цркве на подручју Тимочке крајине: Борски И Зајечарски Округ
On The History Of The Roman Catholic Church In Timočka Krajina To Date: The Bor And Zaječar Districts

Summary/Abstract: There are sufficient reasons for the impression that Serbian science unfairly disregarded the existence of a relatively rich history of the Roman Catholic Church in the “far east” of Serbia, i.e. in Timočka Krajina - in the Bor and Zaječar Districts - to date. One of the reasons to draw such a conclusion can be found in the fact that this segment of history, due to, mildly put, extremely speculative terms, does not belong to the Serbian history. As a result of a set of different circumstances and due to possible prejudice and ignorance, i.e. the recognition of a selective history as the only true history, an easily makeable parallel has not yet been made concerning the role of Roman Catholics in the development of modern Serbia and the ancient Saxons, also Roman Catholics, who had a crucial role in the economic development of medieval Serbia and thus its overall power, which is the fact that the propagators of the so-called Golden Age of Serbdom and “Celestial Serbia”, contemporary and future, continually keep ‘forgetting’. The fact that the dominant confessional affiliation of the people shapes the quality of the cultural and social fabric (understood in the broadest sense) of a social space was not left unrecorded even among prominent sociologists, such as Max Weber, who attempted to verify the hypothesis of a link between the Protestant faith and the spirit of the capitalist economy in a broad comparative perspective. However, the issue of the impact of confessional minorities to the cultural, social, and economic conditions of a region is only incidentally treated in the writings of sociologists and scholars in related fields, which was the direct motivation for this paper.

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