The article analyses a special group of Slovenian religious organisations, "created religious communities" (leaning on the term "invented religions" coined by the Australian scholar of religion C. Cusack) - namely, very diverse (at least intended to be) religious organisations which emerged in response to a specific legal problem and/or as a protest against very specific actions of the state in the last 15 years. As unique and interesting, although quantitatively not very significant and qualitatively borderline cases, they must find their place (together with other Slovenian radical religious innovations) in the general religious picture. The latter is introduced through the contents of the Catalogue of Slovenian Religious Organisations, which derives from the first empirical sociological research of new religious and spiritual movements in Slovenia conducted by the authors since 2003, and which has today grown into a systematically arranged database of all Slovenian religious organisations.
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