Vol.2, No 6/2 1999 pp. 257 - 270
UDC: 316.647.5:316.7
ANTI-CULT MOVEMENT: A POSSIBLE EXPRESSION
OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
Dragoljub B. Đorđević
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering - Niš
Abstract. The author points to the misunderstandings present in
sciences of religion as well as on the Yugoslav public stage about the
comprehension and designation of different types of religious organizing.
Disputes are particularly prominent about cults and newly established sects,
i. e. new religious movements, primarily in the media. Big domiciliary
churches help towards this, pronouncing all sects and cults, with no exception
whatsoever, to be satanic, totalitarian and destructive quasi-religious
phenomena. All this together gave rise and helped the establishment of
an uncivilized anti-cult movement. The mentioned movement ("the anti-cult
movement in the Serbian variant", as called by the author), arising in
the absence of the pre-cult as a necessary balance, is not only an expression
of religious intolerance, but its generator itself. The author backs up
his attitudes by empirical documentation and allows for an insight into
the collage of extremely anti-cult newspaper headlines, as well as into
the reactions and letters of institutions and individuals provoked by this
indecent public campaign.
Key words: anti-cult movement, religious intolerance,
new religious movements.
ANTIKULTNI POKRET - MOGUĆI IZRAZ RELIGIOZNE
NETOLERANCIJE
Autor ukazuje na nesporazume u naukama o religiji i na javnoj jugoslovenskoj
sceni povodom shvatanja i imenovanja različitih vrsta verskog organizovanja.
Sporova naročito ima oko kultova i novih sekti, tj. novih religioznih pokreta,
i to prvenstveno u medijima. Tome doprinose i velike domicilne crkve, koje,
bez razlike, sve sekte i kultove proglašavaju satanističkim, totalitarnim
i destruktivnim kvazireligioznim pojavama. Sve je to zajedno uzrokovalo
rađanje i zaživljavanje necivilizovanog antikultnog pokreta. Taj pokret
(od autora nazvan "antikultni pokret u srpskoj varijanti"), uz nepostojanje
prokultnog kao neophodnog balansa, ne samo da je izraz religiozne netolerancije
već jeste i njen generator. Autor svoje stavove potkrepljuje empirijskom
dokumentacijom i pruža na uvid kolaž ekstremno antikultnih novinskih naslova,
kao i reakcije i pisma institucija i pojedinaca pogođenih nepriličnom javnom
kampanjom.
Ključne reči: antikultni pokret, religiozna netolerancija, novi
religiozni pokreti
