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Church-state relations under the Bulgarian denominations act 2002

Petkoff, Peter
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"The new Bulgarian law on religion, the Denominations Act (Zakon za veroizpove- daniyata) 2002, moves beyond the mere declaratory constitutional recognition of religious pluralism. It represents a particular school of jurisprudence and political philosophy which advocates that liberal values in a society can be introduced and achieved through a programme which has as its logical aim a particular communitarian model of society as the initial stage of a community and character-building process. Only then, after this process has been completed, can a natural discussion of communitarian values lead to the liberal concept, according to which the only true way for such communitarian values to be observed and experienced is by reducing the size of the state to the smallest possible group able to perform its functions. "
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2005
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