USLUŽNA DELATNOST TRADICIONALNIH CRKAVA I VERSKIH ZAJEDNICA U REPUBLICI SRBIJI

Abstract

The work deals with the area of services provided by traditional churches and religious communities, with the aim of gratification the religious needs of citizens. Commonly called religious organizations, churches and religious communities represent a specific type of social organizations that have a distinct influence on social events. By analyzing the regulations governing the activities and treatment of churches and religious communities, we come to the conclusion that the mentioned organizations perform worship services, religious rites and other religious activities that satisfy the needs of their believers. The indicated activities of religious organizations can be treated as religious services, that is, services of churches and religious communities. In this labor, we first conceptually define the term "religious services", and then point out certain specificities of this type of services. We consider the issue related to settlement of services provided by religious organizations to be the most sensitive. In that domain, it is important to take into account the autonomous law of religious organizations, which regulates these issues. At the very end, we will look at the question of the educational activity of religious organizations. Educational activities are carried out in two ways: through religious educational institutions and by organizing religious classes in state and private schools. In this way, religious organizations provide religious education services to citizens. It is the state's obligation to create conditions for the functioning and realization of religious education, given that the right to religious education is included in the corpus of human and minority rights and freedoms, ie it represents a constitutive element of freedom of religion.