About Society
The Historical Society for the History of Christianity is a professional organization that was established by a group of historians to raise awareness of the importance of the influence of the history of Christianity on social history in general, with a special focus on the Balkan and Slavic peoples in particular. Although the society was established by a group of historians as a professional organization, its members, at the decision of the founders, may also come from other professions, who directly or indirectly, through their work, deal with the history of Christianity or some of its segments.
The Society deals only with historical segments of the history of Christianity, i.e. the Christian Church, until the schism of 1054 as a whole, and then only with Orthodox Christianity, without engaging in theological considerations, which belongs as a prerogative of the Church, but rather through the presentation of the history of the development of Christianity, i.e. the Christian Church, its structure, development, relations with states over time, and other social factors.
After the inevitable start of decentralization, with the establishment of the Cyrillic Museum in Rača near Bajina Bašta, it is necessary to slowly but surely start establishing significant institutions and organizations of a national character outside Belgrade and thus put an end to the constant trend of locating everything in Belgrade. And where better than in the area where the first book in the Cyrillic alphabet was printed on the soil of present-day Serbia – the Rujan Four Gospels, which was printed in 1537 in the Rujan Monastery near Vrutak, not far from Užice.
In addition to its primary goal, the Society will organize professional and scientific meetings, scientific research papers, exhibitions, forums, presentations of books and magazines, professional stays and professional trips, all with the aim of enriching and objectifying citizens’ knowledge about the importance of Christianity in general, but also the aforementioned segments of that history, with the aim of popularizing scientific historiography.