IZAZOVI SUVREMENE SOCIOLOGIJE RELIGIJE / CHALLENGES OF THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss some of the important questions that occupy the attention of contemporary sociologists of religion, trying to point to some of the methodological and theoretical problems which gain wider relevance when they are situated in the context of the transformation of modern society and the role that religion holds within that transformation. The paper starts with the premise that we are witnessing a deep "crisis" of both modern society and social sciences. In the paper, I set some problems that are based on contemporary sociological understanding of issues such as: religious pluralism, the return of religions, the meeting of Europe and Islam, the models of relations between the state and religion, and the problem of religion in transitional societies with examples relevant to Bosnia and Herzegovina society. The paper consists of an introduction, three chapters and a conclusion.