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    Lesjak, Gregor

    Teorija in praksa, 09/2008, Letnik: 45, Številka: 5
    Journal Article

    A group of Slovene scholars with special interest in new religious movements has formed a formal religious group, The Church of Holy Simplicity (Cerkev svete preproscine), to study & explain certain complications in the administrative procedure of registering a religious community with the Slovene state at the beginning of 2004. Due to unusual response of the state, relatively simple & practically orientated project has grown into special case study of "Slovene religious transition" -- a 15 years long process, leading from communist supervision & control of all religions towards selective interest of the democratic state for particular churches. The Church of the Holy Simplicity thus became the first small & new Slovene religious community, which has not succeeded in registration, though The Administrative Court of justice refused all of the state's arguments against registration twice, & though the registration of every religious community was still considered as obligatory by the outdated communist law. The results of the experiment are, of course, included in a new store of knowledge, but they cannot be considered as optimistic: during the period of almost 5 years, the state of law has not enabled a disputable new religious movement to oppose effectively an arbitrary & non-professional attitude of the state. Adapted from the source document.