Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies

The Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies (CCRS) is an interdisciplinary research unit with a special focus on culture and religion. Its associates specialize in contemporary cultural and religious phenomena in the local and global environment.
More specifically, CCRS researchers are interested in popular culture (film, music, fashion, media), cultures of everyday life, subcultures and street cultures, modern literature, changes in mentality and religion in post-socialist environments, (de)secularization processes in contemporary societies, new religious movements, Balkan studies, collective memory and various forms of nostalgia. CCRS researchers closely cooperate with renowned domestic and foreign, European and American education and research institutions through projects, exchanges, and other national, regional, and international mechanisms.

News

Events

Association for Cultural Studies Institute 2026: Decolonization Strategies and Memory Work in Popular Culture
April 20-25, 2026, FSS Ljubljana

Decolonization Strategies and Memory Work in Popular Culture, International conference
April 20-21, 2026, FSS Ljubljana

National research projects

International research projects

Members

Media Studies and Digital Culture Unit

• Dejan Jontes
• Breda Luthar
• Tanja Oblak Črnič
• Maruša Pušnik
• Anamarija Šiša

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Selected publications and documents

KOSI, Teja. “Dramatic”, “crazy”, and “unworthy” women: endometriosis and the (medical) perceptions of female pain. Družboslovne razprave. 2025, letn. 41, št. 108/109, str. 43-64. DOI: 10.51936/dr.41.108-109.43-64.

BOBNIČ, Robert, KOSTANJEVEC, Jan. Yugowave and Serbwave on Youtube: audience analysis by community detection. Družboslovne razprave, 2025, letn. 41, št. 108/109, str. 199-225. https://www.sociolosko-drustvo.si/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DR108-109-Bobnic_Kostanjevec.pdf.

KALUŽA, Jernej; MAJSOVA, Natalija. Moderne, postmoderne in metamoderne strukture občutenja: velikopodatkovna analiza spominov na Josipa Broza – Tita v 21. stoletju. Družboslovne razprave, 2025, 41(108/109), pp. 145–173

STANKOVIĆ, Peter (ur.), MAJSOVA, Natalija (ur.). Alpenecho: slovenska narodnozabavna glasba v sodobnih kulturnih, političnih in medijskih kontekstih. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede, Založba FDV, 2024. Knjižna zbirka Kult. DOI: 10.51936/9789612951115.

ČRNIČ, Aleš; FORTUNA, Taja. »Vsi smo malo videli, da bog tudi prek socialnih omrežij deluje«: vpliv intenzivirane rabe digitalnih tehnologij na izbrane slovenske religijske skupnosti. Poligrafi, 2024, 29(115/116), pp. 141–162.

SMRKE, Marjan. The efffects of the Rupnik scandal on Slovenian catholics. Occasional papers on religion in Eastern Europe. Nov. 2024, vol. 44, iss. 9, str. 41-60. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2558&context=ree.

TOMC, Gregor. Music as a spandrel of evolutionary adaptation for speech: the doors of imagination. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2023. http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.vlebooks.com/product/openreader?id=unilj&accId=9486805&isbn=9781527518773.

PUŽAR, Aljoša. Soundtracks of human mimetic sexual play: the case of East Asian regional sexual vernacular. Sexualities. Dec. 2023, vol. 26, no. 8, str. 873-892. DOI: 10.1177/1363460720936474.

ŠABEC, Ksenija. Between home and the world: (banal) nationalism and representations of a nation in Slovenian folk-pop music. Družboslovne razprave. 2023, 39, [št.] 102, str. 106-126. DOI: 10.51936/dr.39.102.105-126.

VELIKONJA, Mitja. Podobe nestrinjanja: politični grafiti in street art postsocialistične tranzicije. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2022. Zbirka Premiki.

VELIKONJA, Mitja. The chosen few: aesthetics and ideology in football-fan graffiti and street art. Los Angeles: DoppelHouse Press, 2021.