Time Proverbs and Social Change in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

M. Spangler

A chapter in The Study of Time IV, 1981, pp 223-233 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In contemporary Belgrade the social idea of time has been changing in two ways. First, calendrical time no longer reflects Serbian Orthodox religious custom to a significant degree. The Church or Julian calendar has been gradually relegated over the past sixty years to a minor function of religious ritual; and Serbs, comprising over 80% of the population of the city (Bogavac 1974:665), generally calculate even the dates of many religious observances by the Gregorian calendar, civilly accepted in 1918 (Mišković 1966:106). Just as importantly, church holidays are no longer recognized by the postwar socialist government and are being gradually supplanted in their general observance by civil holidays (cf. Spangler 1979: Chapter Two).

Keywords: Social Change; Time Orientation; Time Perspective; Clock Time; Future Time Perspective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5947-3_18

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