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The Nature and the Structure of the Religiosity in Slovenia

Zdenko Roter

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The empirical research on the problems of religiosity of the recent date in Slovenia. A score of reasons accounts for this lateness, some related to the secular society, some to the churchdom. The public opinion poll in Slovenia (1968, 1969—70) opened broader possibilities to obtain the data on the (non)religious structure of the adult population in Slovenia (by this limited, though a correct method). Hypothetic typology of the relations to the religion and church that was constructed, included following types: 1) religious-church reliable type, religious-church nonreliable type, 3) religious-church non-committed type, 4) religious-non-church type, 5) noncommitted-church type, 6) nonreligious-nonreliable type, 7) nonreligious reliable type. In assessing the extension of these types, two indicators were used: subjective (the report of the respondents on their own religiosity or indifference) and objective (report of the respondent on their observance of the church or religious rites). The typology was elaborated by the concepts of the modern sociological literature and by the thesis that the religiosity and churchyness existed as two distinctive traits. The frequency tables used reveal that the Slovenian society becomes more and more pluralistic acquiring the symptoms typical for the secularized society. The comparison of the several years data points to a trend, not too conspicuous but rather a general one, toward the less religious categories. Equally plausible is the thesis of a tendency toward the diminishing of the churchy reliability among the religious categories in Slovenia. The general notion that the alienation from church and the irreligion increases more than proportionally with the size of the settlements does not hold for Slovenia. That is probably the consequence of the specificities of the urbanization process here. Neither the trend of the proportionate increase of the non-religion with the higher level of education is present, which points out the one-sidedness of the assumptions on the strong correlation between the educational level and the degree of religiousness. It was further confirmed that in the groups of religious the tendency of weakening the traditional faith in the posthumous life was present, similarly as revealed by the research in other industrially developed countries with the long tradition of Christianity. Religiosity in distancing from the notion of the nondisputable validity of the church dogmas designed to cover the relation of the religious to the authority of the church dogmas. It was confirmed that the group of religious was not differentiated only in the respect of observance of rites, but in relation to the attitudes toward the church teachings. As in other urbanized societies in Slovenia also the religious people differ in distancing from the notion of the non-disputable validity of the church dogmas for the man’s personal life. It was shown that the church authority was stronger with the religious people who were tied to it by the regular observance of religious rites. The empirically gathered data open many possibilities for creating new interpretative and working hypotheses.

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Hrčak ID:

156605

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156605

Datum izdavanja:

30.6.1971.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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