Review article
Attitudes, values, struggles, challenges before marriage, expectations of marriage, and the religious observance of young people in the City of Osijek and nearby communitites who participated in the marriage preparation course
Stanislav Šota
orcid.org/0000-0002-6979-4406
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo - University of J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Croatia
Ivana Dugandžić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8444-9213
Abstract
In this work, the authors analyze and reflect critically on research that was conducted on 218 young adults from the eastern and western deanery of the Osijek area.
Young adults participated in the Marriage Preparation course during six encounters (the
encounters were held in the eastern deanery from 2 to 14 March and in the western
deanery from 6 to 22 February 2017) which were organized by the Committee for Marriage and the Family of Đakovo-Osijek archdiocese and the abovementioned deaneries.
Analysis and critical review of young people in the city of Osijek and nearby communities
on their thoughts about values, expectations, disappointments, and hopes in the period
before marriage is presented in the first part of the work. In the second part, one of the
most important dimensions for a successful marriage and a happy family – the religious
observance of young people – is analyzed and their religious practice is shown through
the typology of (un)believers (practical believers, traditional, occasional, religious, and
atheists). Among young people in the city of Osijek, 27.06 percent identified as practical believers, 35.32 percent identified as occasional believers, 26.6 percent identified as
traditional believers, 8.25 percent identified as agnostics, and 1.37 percent identified as
atheists.
Keywords
youth; preparation for marriage and family; religiosity; young people in Osijek; values.
Hrčak ID:
260065
URI
Publication date:
17.5.2020.
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