Original scientific paper
SOME ASPECTS OF RELIGIOSITY OF CROATIAN YOUTH IN 1986 AND 1999
Jadranka Goja
; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The aim of the research was to find out whether the recent socio-economic changes in Croatia generated the corresponding change in the religiosity of Croatian youth and if so, what was the nature of this change. To this end, the results of the studies of Croatian youth of 1986 and 1999 are compared. Several indicators of religious devotion are included: confessional and religious selfidentification, beliefs, and religious practice. Since all four indicators have increased significantly, this means that in the mentioned period religiosity registered a marked increase, which signifies a massive shift from the non-religious to the religious orientation of Croatian youth. This is an indirect confirmation of the claim that this shift in the religious devotion of Croatian youth and its remarkable increase is due to the social changes such as the fall of communism, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, the creation of the independent Croatian state, and the Serbian aggression against Croatia.
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Hrčak ID:
27490
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Publication date:
23.5.2000.
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