Siniša Zrinščak

Biographic Data

ID106938
NAMESiniša Zrinščak
GIVEN NAMESSiniša
FAMILY NAMEZrinščak
SIGNATUREZRINŠČAK S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Zagreb
ORCID0000-0003-3542-0585
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS87
TOTAL CITATIONS97
AUTHOR COUNT86
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Religion and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

    Siniša Zrinščak, Marko Veković et al.ARTICLEPolitical Theology2026References: 29

    The nexus between religion and politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) and Croatia is inherently complex and characterized by multiple interplays among social factors, most notably religious-ethnic links. Nevertheless, the scholarly literature tends to understate the complexity of this relationship by reducing it to the religious dimension of the wars fought in former Yugoslavia in 1990s. This paper offers a more nuanced approach to the topic by …

  • Queer Migration in Catholic Countries of Central and Eastern Europe

    Open AccessMilda Alisauskiene, Halina Grzymala-Mosczynska et al.ARTICLEReligions2025

    This paper explores the under-researched phenomenon of queer migration in Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland—three post-communist, Catholic-majority countries. Drawing on existing studies in the literature and empirical data, it examines how prevailing social conservatism—shaped by the influence of Catholicism and the distinct developmental trajectories of these countries—is reflected in research on queer migration. Although limited, the current body…

  • Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 15 (2024)

    Olga Breskaya, Siniša ZrinščakBOOKAnnual Review of the Sociology of…2024

  • Special issue—Highly religious young Catholics

    Open AccessJ P Coutinho, Brian Conway et al.ARTICLESociology Compass2023Cited by: 1References: 5

    The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest

  • Religion and the natural and virtual environments

    Open AccessJulia Martínez-Ariño, Siniša ZrinščakARTICLEZeitschrift für Religion…2022

    This special

  • Religious freedom

    Olga Breskaya, G Giordan et al.ARTICLEReligion State & Society2022Cited by: 1References: 5

    Sociology’s engagement with the religious freedom agenda is a comparatively new enterprise compared to legal and political science scholarship. The five contributions included in this collection continue the debate about the role of sociological theory and methods in defining, interpreting, and implementing religious freedom in modern societies. By articulating sociological sensitivity and readiness to address existing lacunae in the social-scien…

  • Interdependence and competition between the religious and the secular

    Valdemar Kallunki, Siniša ZrinščakARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2021References: 7

    This article analyses the welfare role of the Church in Croatia and Finland focusing on the way majority churches co-operate with secular authorities in social welfare. The main question is how co-operation is conditioned by the history of both differentiation between Church and State and the continuing strong position of majority churches in both countries, in particular within the context of the restructuring of the welfare state and the increa…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessOlga Breskaya, G Giordan et al.ARTICLESocial Compass2021Cited by: 2References: 17

  • Social perception of religious freedom

    Open AccessOlga Breskaya, G Giordan et al.ARTICLESocial Compass2021Cited by: 3References: 30

    The measures and correlates of religious freedom constitute a comparatively new area of study eliciting research at the level of state agency and judicial institutions. The article adds to this the individual level of analysis by introducing a five-dimensional concept of the Social Perception of Religious Freedom (SPRF). It discusses results of its testing on a convenience sample of 1035 Italian University students. We examine the predictive powe…

  • Konstrukcija i validacija Skale vjerom inspiriranoga društvenog angažmana (Vida) među mladima u Hrvatskoj

    Open AccessIvan Landripet, Goran Koletić et al.ARTICLERevija za sociologiju2020

    Diljem svijeta vjerske zajednice i laička vjerski orijentirana udruženja potiču vjernike, osobito mlade, na aktivan angažman u promicanju i zaštiti religijskih vrijednosti. U Hrvatskoj se vjerski društveni angažman promovira i prakticira već desetljećima, no taj je iskaz religioznosti ostao posve neistraženim. U svrhu stvaranja pretpostavki za izučavanje raširenosti, oblika, pozadine i učinaka takve vjerske prakse, u radu se predstavlja izrada i …

  • Global Eastern Orthodoxy

    Open AccessGiuseppe Giordan, Siniša ZrinščakBOOKGlobal Eastern Orthodoxy2020

  • Religious Indifference

    Siniša ZrinščakARTICLEJournal of Religion in Europe2018

  • One pope, two churches

    Open AccessG Giordan, Siniša ZrinščakARTICLESocial Compass2018

    This article analyses the responses of the Catholic Church in Croatia and Italy to the refugee crisis, particularly the churches’ discourses on human rights issues and positions in public debates on refugees and migrants. Although both Catholic churches followed the Church’s teachings on ‘strangers’, associated with providing concrete help to people in need, the Catholic Church in Croatia pursued what can be classified as a charitable approach, w…

  • Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland

    Siniša ZrinščakARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2018

    Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland: Continuity and Change Since 1989." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(3), pp. 599–600

  • Citizenship and Social Welfare in Croatia

    Paul Stubbs, Siniša ZrinščakARTICLEEuropean Politics and Society2015Cited by: 16References: 10

    This article addresses clientelism as a complex structure impacting on social welfare in the context of transition, war, new nation-state building and authoritarian populist political settlements. The paper explores the development of clientelistic welfare in Croatia through an examination of captured and categorical distributional effects, the dominance of nationality over territorial-based citizenship claims, and the politicisation of the natur…

  • Active ageing and demographic change

    Siniša Zrinščak, Susan LawrenceARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Work2014Cited by: 1References: 2

    Though demographic change has been a widely acknowledged and discussed topic for decades, its scope, social impact and above all related policy responses still leave us with many unresolved social

  • Studying Religion and Society

    Siniša ZrinščakARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2014

    This is certainly an unusual book in the field of the sociology of religion. It contains sociological self-portraits of 15 contemporary outstanding sociologists of religion: Nancy T. Ammerman, Will

  • Gender Equality Policies and Practices in C roatia – The Interplay of Transition and Late E uropeanization

    Open AccessIvana Dobrotić, Teo Matković et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2013References: 28

    This article contributes to understanding change in gender regimes in post‐communist countries. Using C roatia as a case, it juxtaposes the observed change in key indicators of the position of women in various walks of life with the context of the European gender agenda and the positions of actors involved in the national political arena and policies introduced throughout the transition period. The article reviews the previous enlargement waves a…

  • Volontiranje studenata u Zagrebu u komparativnom kontekstu

    Open AccessSiniša Zrinščak, Ivan Lakoš et al.ARTICLERevija za socijalnu politiku2012Cited by: 2References: 4

    The paper presents an analysis of the results of the research of volunteering of students of the University of Zagreb and Technical and Social Sciences Polytechnics in Zagreb conducted between 2006-2007 within the international comparative research of students in 14 countries of the world. The aim of the research was to collect the data on various aspects of volunteering (experience, basic forms, motivations and benefits of volunteering, values c…

  • Aktivno starenje, rodna ravnopravnost i socijalna uključenost

    Open AccessSiniša ZrinščakARTICLERevija za socijalnu politiku2012Cited by: 5

  • Cultural Values and Volunteering

    Open AccessHenrietta Grönlund, Kirsten Holmes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Academic Ethics2011Cited by: 8References: 8

  • Wim van Oorschot, Michael Opielka i Birgit Pfau-Effinger (ur.)

    Open AccessSiniša ZrinščakARTICLERevija za socijalnu politiku2011

  • What gives? Cross-national differences in students’ giving behavior

    Open AccessChulhee Kang, Chul Hee Kang et al.ARTICLEThe Social Science Journal2011Cited by: 3References: 4

    This study is targeted to understanding the giving of time and money among a specific cohort – university students across 13 countries. It explores predictors of different combinations of giving behaviors: only volunteering, only donating, neither, as compared to doing both. Among the predictors of these four types of giving behavior, we also account for cross-national differences across models of civil society. The findings show that students pr…

  • A Cross-Cultural Examination of Student Volunteering

    Open AccessFemida Handy, Ram A Cnaan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Voluntary Action…2010

    This research adopts the utilitarian view of volunteering as a starting point: we posit that for an undergraduate student population volunteering is motivated by career enhancing and job prospects. We hypothesize that in those countries where volunteering signals positive characteristics of students and helps advance their careers, their volunteer participation will be higher. Furthermore, regardless of the signaling value of volunteering, those …

  • Croatian Social Policy

    Open AccessPaul Stubbs, Siniša ZrinščakARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2009Cited by: 5References: 27

    This article outlines the differences and commonalities between social policy developments in Croatia and those in Central Europe. In Croatia, issues such as national identities and the redefinition of citizenship, war, state‐building and crisis management have produced a complex mix of statist centralization and parallelism of welfare actors at the central and local level. While subject both to neo‐liberal pressures to privatize provision, and l…