Religion und Marxismus in Jugoslawien
Religion and Marxism in Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The recent in-party discussion on questions of the relationship between church and state is expressed, inter alia, in the extensive book published in 1978 by Todo Kurtović „Church and Religion in the Socialist Self-Government Society“. Kurtović is a member of the CC of the BKJ and chairman of the Socialist Lea-gue; until the last party congress in 1978 he was influential secretary in the now dissolved executive committee of the Central Committee Bureau. Already on June 6 and 7, 1977 In cooperation with the party school "Josip Broz Tito", the committee responsible for education had invited to a seminar entit-led "The Communist League of Yugoslavia in relation to the phenomenon of religion and the church and the activities of the faith communities in our country‘s socialist self-administrated society." The seminar, attended by 200 officials, dealt with issues that were frankly acknowledged to have been neglected so far because they were generally considered" delicate "or" even unpleasant for public discussion. " The papers and contributions to the discussion, which we present in part in the following, have been summarized in a booklet "exclusively for internal use" within the BKJ and can therefore be considered as authentic for the process of shaping the opinion of the Yugoslav Communists. The following excerpts are limited to utterances on the complex of a "Marxist foundations of education" and, in addi-tion to barely accessible figures on the status of "religiosity" in Yugoslavia, also reflect the divergent views on the possibility presented in the discussion, namely that of faithful teachers to be taught by state schools.

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