Religion and nation are significant phenomena that, in a sense, determine human social and historical essence and existence. However, the relationship between religion and nation is only marginally debated in social-philosophical, anthropologic, and sociological theories of nation, as well as in the philosophy and sociology of religion. Anthropologists and sociologists on the one hand, claim that mutual territory, economic interests, language, culture, origin, state, consciousness, character etc. are constitutive factors of the forming of a nation, but they rarely mention religion. Religiologisits and theologians, on the other hand, when discussing nation and religion, always mention a certain difference between religion as a universal, transcendent and eschatological entity, and nation as a secular and historical particularity. However, the authors of this text remark on the relations of these phenomena in their historical becoming and development. This is especially evident in the case of the forming of Yugoslav nations.
