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Epiphany is a Christian holiday that takes place on January 19th every year.
On this long-awaited day, all over Serbia, thousands of people gather around frozen rivers and lakes to swim for a holy cross. Wearing just swimming suits, people swim because they believe that it will bring them prosperity and luck in the coming year. This holiday is one of the most interesting and most exciting in the Christian world. Also, on this day, in churches across the country, priests bless the water. After that, according to the belief, water is curative.
In the times when the church has less and less influence on the people, this reportage is trying to examine how believers understand this holiday, reveals ways in which people identify themselves with religion in the 21st century and ask questions about the connection between religious and national affiliation and necessary interlacing between this two.
SRB
Bogojavljenje je hrišćanski praznik koji se obeležava svakog 19. januara u godini.
Širom Srbije, na ovaj dugo očekivani dan, hiljade ljudi se sakuplja oko zaleđenih reka i jezera, kako bi plivali za časni krst. Noseći samo kupaće kostime, ljudi plivaju verujući da će im to doneti zdravlje i sreću u predstojećoj godini. Ovo je jedan od najinteresantnijih i najživopisnijih praznika u hrišćanskom svetu. Pored plivanja, na ovaj dan se u crkvama širom Srbije, osveštava voda, za koju se kasnije veruje da je lekovita.
U vremenima kada crkva ima sve manji uticaj na ljude, reportaža se bavi razumevanjem ovog praznika od strane vernika, načinom na koji se oni identifikuju sa verom u 21. veku i postavlja pitanje povezanosti verske i nacionalne pripadnosti i njihovom nužnom preplitanju.
