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Law and religion in post-modernity: dilemmas prompted by the Croatian Catholic University

The post-modern erosion of the core social sciences in face of the growing social inequality provides a stage for dilemmas prompted by the recent foundation of a Catholic university in Zagreb: the Catholic Church may have announced a mission of the new university that is explicitly concerned with social problems of the contemporary world, including the state of social sciences ; the new institution may run into difficulties in performing even routine university tasks, because its founder has had a less than distinguished record in respecting basic secular laws, let alone university autonomy. It is highly unlikely that the minor dilemma can be solved in a forseeable future without a miracle. Should that happen, however, the Catholic Church might define a mission of the new university that is explicitly concerned with the burning social problems. The plot in the script is outrightly subversive: instead of fighting both the modern and post-modern world by lapsing into pre-modernity the Croatian Catholic University practices a post-modern departure from Cartesianism.

law and religion, postmodernity, Croatian Catholic University

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