| Summary: | This research focuses on the correlation between migrations and ethnic and
religious identities on the example of the United Methodist Church (UMC)2 in
Banat. This paper observes a complex network of social, political and
cultural factors which induced the changing of the number of members of the
UMC local congregations, and their ethnic structure. Ever since the founding
of the first UMC congregations on the territory of Serbia (mostly in
Vojvodina) at the beginning of the 20th century until the end of World War
II, the greatest number of their members were German. After they had
immigrated, there was a sharp membership decline and many UMC congregations
were extinguished. Today there are four UMC congregations in Banat, the
largest one being the Macedonian Roma congregation in Jabuka, which is called
the ’’Roma church’’ by the local people. Protestant congregations in Serbia
are minority denominations and the UMC in Banat does not have many members.
In the UMC in Jabuka the pastor is a woman, which is also very rare.
[Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177027: Multiethnicity,
Multiculturalism, migrations: Contemporary process]
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