Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.49.1.5
Religiosity of Secondary School Leavers in Zadar (Croatia)
Antonio Dragun
orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-6766
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Centar Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper presents the survey results on religiosity obtained by 254 secondary school leavers in Zadar (Croatia). The results are compared with some previous empirical findings on the adolescents and adults in Croatia, with regard to the possible impact of certain
methodological differences in the surveys. Concerning the frequency of mass attendance, their differentiation on the line regularity-occasionality is noticeable, where the regularity is slightly more represented. In comparison with pupils aged 14–19 from other parts of Croatia who participated in surveys five to twelve years earlier, participants in Zadar exhibit stronger religious self-identification, along with weaker orthodoxy and orthopraxy. This change indicates a possible transformation of traditional religiousness in the direction of modern or ‘diffuse’ religious form. On the other hand, their religiosity generally exceeds the religiosity of adult population, which is in accordance with the well-known age and regional differences. The findings of this research follow the expected general pattern in which the socio-cultural identity of 18-year-olds in Zadar is marked by a mixture of (late) modernity and tradition with a slight advantage in some components in favour of modernity. It could be assumed that the dominance of modernity is mostly expressed in how they use their
free-time, their value system and non-acceptance of integral Church teaching. On the other hand, the influence of tradition remains dominant in the field of self-identification – the confessional, national and religious one.
Ključne riječi
adolescents; youth; religiousness; religion; identity; methodology; modernity; tradition
Hrčak ID:
71646
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.4.2011.
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