FUNERAL CUSTOMS AMONG ATEISTS

Abstract

The Montenegro people who have been collonised into Vojvodina after the Second World War, distinguished thamselfs from others by adopting an atheistic -orientation. They abanded their previous religious beliefs based more on religious practice than on knowledge of religious thaught. On such background they built up an ethnic boundary that differed tham as progressive force of the new socialistic society against other conservative domestic population. Despite this, they remained in a way loyal to their old tribal tradition that can be scen nowdays in funeral rituals. This tradition still has a deep religious meaning. So the process of secular zation touched only the manifest level of the funeral ritual, which maintain an -older religious survay that can be seen especially in animistic conception of -death.