The aim of this research is to find out in what degree religious dent tyin Serbian society has become a self-governed identty, a kind of an dent try for itself, or, in what degree it is still part of national dentity. Is the religious belonging (religious dentity) a reliable mark of ethnicity and, if so, in what measure? The research has been done on the participants of student protest (SP) Belgrade n winter 1996/97. The relationship between religious belonging (religious identity) and national identity is observed in relation to universal processes of cosmopolitization, individualization and retraditionalization.