Ančić, Branko (2014) Religion. In: South-East Europe in evolution. Routledge Studies in the European Economy . Routledge, London, pp. 177-192. ISBN 978-0-415-52425-4 (Print), 978-1-315-75890-9 (Online)
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Religion in the modern (post)-industrial societies is still a significant social fact that in many ways connects everyday social, political and economic activities. Area of South-east Europe (SEE), or more precisely countries like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Romania, from the perspective of sciences that are exploring religion/religiosity are heuristically abundant. Source of misconceptions and misunderstandings of the “religious factor” in SEE largely stems from a lack of understanding of the fact that by no means is South-east Europe a homogeneous space. Exploration of these countries constantly refers to a fact that no convergence concerning religion can be observed for all of the mentioned countries, particularly if taken into account the fact that among those countries are those with high level of secularisation, for instance Slovenia, or those with high level of religiosity, for instance Croatia or Romania. Two research goals are set in this paper. The first one refers to the overall religious landscape in SEE countries. In this section the distribution of various elements of personal religiosity, on aggregate level, is presented for the purpose of understanding religious profile of SEE countries. Since religiosity is a multidimensional construct, several measurements of religiosity are chosen: indicator of religious self-assessment , indicator of belonging to a religious community, frequency of attendance at religious services as an indicator of religious practice, indicators of religious beliefs (traditional and alternative), indicator of importance of God in one´s own life, and indicator of religion as a source of comfort and strength. Beside insight into religiosity, religion` s role is explored from the perspective of social expectations. Since religion can be enrolled in various fields in public sphere, for the purpose of the analysis of religion` role in SEE, three main dimensions of public sphere have been operationalized: general social role of religion, socio-cultural role of religion and socio-political role.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Language: English. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Religion, South-East Europe, religiosity, secularity |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Depositing User: | Karolina Vranješ |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Feb 2015 14:35 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2015 12:30 |
| URI: | http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/119 |
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