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The article analyses the dynamics of religious plu-ralisation in Slovenia. Historical development... more The article analyses the dynamics of religious plu-ralisation in Slovenia. Historical developments in various states have kept Slovenians almost exclusively within the Roman-Catholic Church, except for a short Reformation period. The socialist after-war secularisation of society has in many respects undermined the Catholic monopoly, but it failed to create an open religious market. In the transitional period the statistics of Catholics continued to drop, and at the same time ever more new religious movements emerged. These are mostly very small and at the time being do not show the potential for substantial growth. The article analyses in detail religious pluralisation in the regions of Ljubljana and Nova Gorica. From religious monopoly to pluralisation – historical contexts The polytheistic forefathers of today's Slovenians settled in the hills and valleys between the northeastern shores of the Adriatic and southeastern fringes of the Alps during the 6 th and 7 th centuries CE. The proximity of the Salzburg Archbishopric and Aquileia Patriarchate ensured that these settlers soon became the target of missionaries who were not only in pursuit of religious conversion but also, on behalf of their feudal rulers, strove to achieve political subjugation. Following the capture of Slav nobles, who were held as hostages, the loosely aligned and self-determining tribal state of Carantania bowed to the pressure; however, adherents to the tradition that worshiped personifications of nature – and in particular such deities as Veles, Mokoš and Perun – were to take up arms against the new order on at least two occasions. In the mid-19 th century and the era of Slovenia's national awakening movement, the epic poem Baptism on the Savica by France Prešeren
The article analyses the dynamics of religious plu-ralisation in Slovenia. Historical development... more The article analyses the dynamics of religious plu-ralisation in Slovenia. Historical developments in various states have kept Slovenians almost exclusively within the Roman-Catholic Church, except for a short Reformation period. The socialist after-war secularisation of society has in many respects undermined the Catholic monopoly, but it failed to create an open religious market. In the transitional period the statistics of Catholics continued to drop, and at the same time ever more new religious movements emerged. These are mostly very small and at the time being do not show the potential for substantial growth. The article analyses in detail religious pluralisation in the regions of Ljubljana and Nova Gorica. From religious monopoly to pluralisation – historical contexts The polytheistic forefathers of today's Slovenians settled in the hills and valleys between the northeastern shores of the Adriatic and southeastern fringes of the Alps during the 6 th and 7 th centuries CE. The proximity of the Salzburg Archbishopric and Aquileia Patriarchate ensured that these settlers soon became the target of missionaries who were not only in pursuit of religious conversion but also, on behalf of their feudal rulers, strove to achieve political subjugation. Following the capture of Slav nobles, who were held as hostages, the loosely aligned and self-determining tribal state of Carantania bowed to the pressure; however, adherents to the tradition that worshiped personifications of nature – and in particular such deities as Veles, Mokoš and Perun – were to take up arms against the new order on at least two occasions. In the mid-19 th century and the era of Slovenia's national awakening movement, the epic poem Baptism on the Savica by France Prešeren