Aleksandra Duric-Milovanovic Contemporary Religious Transformations in Multicultural Environment: Neo-Protestant Communities in Vojvodina (Serbia) Aleksandra Duric-Milovanovic - Research Fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. saskadjuric@yahoo.com During the last decades religion has faced significant changes and the number of new religions increased in post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. In Serbia, these changes led to new legal frameworks for both traditional churches and new religious communities. Although neo-Protestant communities were founded in the late 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries, they could be classified as "new religions" since they became more visible after the fall of communism. Neo-Protestants have spread their teachings in ethnically and confessional heterogeneous environments, such as the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and especially among ethnic minorities. Unlike mostly homogenous traditional communities in Serbia, neo-Protestants emphasize the principle of trans-ethnicity and trans-nationalism. This paper shows the dynamics of neo-Protestant communities in the region as well as changes that occurred in Статья прислана в редакцию автором. Эта работа представляет собой часть исследования, проведенного при написании докторской диссертации "Румыны-неопротестанты в Воеводине: на стыке религиозной и этнической идентичности" (Белград, 2012). Некоторые части статьи содержат незначительно измененные выдержки из диссертации. Работа проводилась в рамках проекта Института балканских исследований Сербской академии наук и искусств "Дунай и Балканы: культурно-историческое наследие" (N 177 006), осуществляемого при финансовой поддержке Министерства образования, науки и технологического развития Республики Сербия. стр. 93religious identities of the converts. The paper also indicates how religious transformations lead to diversification within a community that seems mono-ethnic and ... Read more