Effects of religiosity and spirituality on gender roles and homonegativity in Croatia and Slovenia

Jugović, Ivana and Ančić, Branko (2013) Effects of religiosity and spirituality on gender roles and homonegativity in Croatia and Slovenia. In: Spirituality of Balkan women: breaking boundaries: the voices of women of ex-Yugoslavia. University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre, Annales University Press, Ljubljana, pp. 93-118. ISBN 978-961-6862-61-5

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Abstract

The goal of this study was to explore whether gender and religiosity/spirituality affected beliefs about gender roles and same-sex relations in Slovenia and Croatia. Data were gathered on the national representative samples from Croatia (N=1201) and Slovenia (N=1065) from the International Social Survey Programme (module Religion 2008). As expected, women in Croatia and Slovenia had less traditional beliefs about gender roles and were less homonegative than men. Non- religious non-spiritual individuals (“secularists”) were the most egalitarian in their gender role beliefs and the least homonegative compared to other groups regarding religiosity and spirituality. Hypothesis that spiritual non- religious individual (“spiritual seekers”) would be more egalitarian and less homonegative than religious individuals (either non-spiritual or spiritual i.e. “dwellers” and “dogmatists”) was confirmed only on the Slovenian sample, whereas results obtained on the Croatian sample were more complex.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Language: English.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Religion, religiosity, spirituality, gender roles, homonegativity
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Depositing User:	Karolina
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2015 14:36
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2025 10:47
URI:	http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/123

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