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Criticism of a social explanation of folks’ religion

Jakov Jukić

Abstract

The phenomenon of folks’ religion is usually explained by social reasons.
For this purpose anthropology and sociology adduce four principal causes: acculturation within indigenous areas, class conflicts in rural areas, church hegemony inside ideological frameworks and political movements in the conditions of social disturbances. However, a more attentive and rigorous analysis easily renders problematic a number of theses which purport to find a social explanation of popular religion. Such an analysis forms the nucleus of this article.

Keywords

folks’ religion; sociology

Hrčak ID:

86303

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/86303

Publication date:

16.1.1984.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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