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Traditional Religiosity in Croatia in 2004: Between the Collective and Individual
Dinka Marinović Jerolimov
orcid.org/0000-0002-6511-3124
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The data on the distribution of confessional and religious identification, religious beliefs and religious practice in Croatia in 2004 are analyzed in this paper. Taking the results of the researches
in the 90s as a basis, the aim was to determine whether the figures
indicate changes or a stabilization of the believers' structure. The
following indicators were used in the analysis: a) indicators of traditional religiosity in a narrower sense, related to the period of
socialization in the family - confessional and religious identification,
religious education in the family and through religious instruction,
the sacraments of baptizing, first communion and confirmation and
b) indicators of the actual religiosity - embracing church and extra-church beliefs, religious practice at the personal and family level
(attending the church messes, personal prayer, confession, communion, self-denial during the Lent period, church wedding, baptizing of children, sending the children to religious instruction,
consecration of home, praying together in the family, celebrating
church holidays and fasting before the holidays with the family). The
hypothesis on the discrepancy in the distribution of religiosity among
the examined dimensions was confirmed, as well as the hypothesis
on the difference between the two groups of religiously determined
respondents - convinced believers and the religious ones that don't
accept all their religion teaches them. Already the existing socio-demographic pattern as a basis for a more expressive religiosity,
respectively non-religiosty has also been confirmed. We ascertained
that the believers' structure has stabilized according to all examined
indicators and that are still predominant those forms of religiosity
related to the socialization in the family, celebrating holidays, customs, and especially to the religious celebration of life cycles, what makes the common traditional cultural pattern not only of
the religious, but of less religious and non-religious parts of population. The analysis shows that, besides the processes
of revitalization, desecularization and deprivatization, we can also
notice the signs of a parallel existence of the opposite processes
on an individual level. This is manifested in dissolution of dogmatic
systems, parallel adoption of alternative extra-church beliefs, in the
discrepancy between the level of belief and religious practice and in
the respondents' divergence from the church moral norms. All this
makes the religious situation in Croatia more complex, although almost completely mono-confessional and mono-national society does not reflect such a picture at first sight.
Ključne riječi
religion; church; traditional religiosity in a narrower sense; actual religiosity; confessional identification; religious identification; church beliefs; alternative beliefs; religious practice; socio-demographic characteristics
Hrčak ID:
33079
URI
Datum izdavanja:
9.3.2009.
Posjeta: 4.802 *