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How did industrialisation and social changes influence the religiosity in Yugoslavia?
Jakov Jukić
Abstract
In the first chapter some results of sociological researches conducted in
the SR of Croatia and SR of Serbia are shown which indicate the
existence of a causal connection between, the process of industrialisation and decrease o f interest for religion. Within this context the workers undoubtedly appear as the carriers of secularisation. Marxist sociologists do not accept such a unilateral causal interpretation, namely, that industrialisation as such is detrimental to religious beliefs, but would like to comprehend the religious phenomenon in its class context.
In the seoond chapter the influence of our social changes on religious life is described. The research carried out in Hercegovina by E. Ćimić
supports the assumption that there is an interdependence between selfmanagement and religiosity. It seems to indicate that as selfmanagement develops more rapidly religious life beoomes weaker. In view of that, according to Marxist conception, the decline o f religion and an atheistic view of life are not merely the result of industrial development — important though this factor undoubtedly is — and it is only through social commitments in an industrialised society — which is another name for selfmanagement — that more permanent atheistic results will follow.
In the third chapter an attempt is made to appraise the same sociological data obtained by the above-mentioned researches in Yugoslavia in a pluralistic key. For that purpose the concepts of ecological atheism, ideology o f secularism and the decline o f the churches’ pastoral activity are clarified in greater detail, as possible contributing factors of the secularisation o f oontemporary Yugoslav society.
Keywords
industrialisation; social changes; religiosity
Hrčak ID:
90222
URI
Publication date:
15.3.1979.
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