Original scientific paper
THE RITUAL DIMENSION OF ECCLESIALITY A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CURRENT SOCIORELIGIOUS RESEARCHES
Danijel Crnić
; Zagreb KBF
Abstract
The author presents a comparative study of the ritual dimension of ecclesiality, taking into account three socio-religious researches that were conducted in Croatia in the last 15 years: Faith and morality in Croatia, EVS 1999, EVS 2008, evincing the gradual and distanced ecclesiality, relationship weakening in the family, ecclesial and social dimensions. The article clearly shows that the contemporary European and Croatian express a need for passage rituals; both the members of the Church and differently distanced ones, but the atheist express this need, too. This unveils a process of a religious differentiation, whose end is not visible yet. Furthermore, it is noted that the ritual matrix of the secularised man belonging to the Church is not identical to the ritual matrix of the official Church, and therefore Croatians, being mostly Catholic face a contradictory ambivalence in demanding and explaining passage rituals.
Keywords
passage rituals; gradual and differential ecclesiality; ritual dimension; ritual trifolium; contradictory ambivalence
Hrčak ID:
84126
URI
Publication date:
29.6.2012.
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