Dragoljub B. Đorđević       

Dragoljub B. Đorđević (1954, Serbia), sociologist of religon and romologist, gained a PhD in Sociology of Religion in 1983, at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš. He has been working as a full professor of Sociology and the Head of Department for Social Sciences at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Univeristy of Niš. He specialized in Sociology of Religion at the Faculty of Philosophy, at Moskow’s State University “Lomovosov” (Russia) and at the Institute for social research at the University of Zagreb (Croatia).  He is founder and president of the Yugoslav Society of Scientific Study of Religion (YSSSR) and the editor in chief of “Teme” /Topics/, a journal of the University of Niš. He also was the president of the Yugoslav Sociological Society (1998-2000).

He researches Christian Orthodoxy, New Religious Movements, ethnic, religious and confessional relationships in Serbia and Balkans, possibilities of interculturalism in multiethnic and multiconfessional societies, with special attention paid to Roma. He have published in national and international journals more than 300 articles; he wrote and edited, alone or in co-authorship, 49 books: Бег од цркве (ESCAPE FROM THE CHURCH) (1984), О религији и атеизму (ON RELIGION AND ATHEISM) (1990), Православље између неба и земље (ORTHODOXY BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH) (1991), Силе мрака и безумља (FORCES OF DARKNESS AND MADNESS) (1992), Повратак светог? (RETURN OF THE SACRED?) (1994), Од магије до науке (FROM MAGIC TO SCIENCE) (1994), Етика инжењера (ETHICS OF ENGINEERS) (1995), Социологија forever (SOCIOLOGY FOREVER) (1996), Искушења атеизма (TEMPTATIONS OF ATHEISM) (1997), Скинхеди (SKINHEADS) (1998), Јавор изнад главе (A MAPLE TREE ABOVE THE HEAD) (1999), Млади, религија, веронаука (THE YOUTH, RELIGION, RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION) (2000); ROMA RELIGIOUS CULTURE (2003),  Секте и култови (SECTS AND CULTS) (2003), О мисионарењу, преобраћењу и прозелитизму (ON EVANGELIZATION, CONVERSION, PROSELITYZM) (2004), ROMAS & OTHERS – OTHERS & ROMAS (2004), ROMANI CULT PLACES AND CULTURE OF DEATH (2005), ISLAM AT THE BALKANS (2007), Муке са светим – изазови социологије религије (TROUBLES WITH SACRED: CHALLENGES OF SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION (2007), and Узорници и пријани – скице за портрет YU социолога религије (ROLE MODELS AND FRIENDS: A SKETCH FOR A PORTRAIT OF YU SOCIOLOGIST OF RELIGION) (2008).

E-mail:brkab@junis.ni.ac.yu; brkab@bankerinter.net

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