Jaunimo religinis tapatumas, religingumas ir religinė socializacija šiuolaikinėje Lietuvoje: veikėjai ir jų sąveikos
Youth’s Religious Identity, Religiosity, and Religious Socialization in Contemporary Lithuania: Actors and their Interactions

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the issue of the construction of youth’s religious identity and religiosity as well as its interaction with religious socialization in Lithuania. Based on the data from focus group interviews conducted with the soon-to-be graduates of Lithuanian secondary schools (11th–12th graders) in 2019–2020, the paper analyses the issue of the construction of youth’s religiosity and religious identity as well as its relationship with religious socialization in Lithuania. First, the paper discusses the issue of youth’s religious identity and its construction in contemporary society, examining the influences of primary and secondary (institutionalized) socialization in the construction of religious identity and the role played by education as a social institution in religious socialization. Grounding on the narratives, the article shows the perspective of pupils and teachers on youth’s religious identity and the factors of its construction. The data of the empirical research revealed the unique role of the teacher in the processes of construction of religious identity and religiosity. The research data has also shown that the dominant process among the research participants is the chosen rather than inherited construction of religious identity and religiosity.

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