ADOLESCENTS’ RELIGIOUSNESS IN THE NORTH OF KOSOVO Cover Image

РЕЛИГИОЗНОСТ АДОЛЕСЦЕНАТА НА СЕВЕРУ КОСОВА И МЕТОХИЈЕ
ADOLESCENTS’ RELIGIOUSNESS IN THE NORTH OF KOSOVO

Author(s): Ivana Aritonović
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Centar za empirijska istraživanja religije (CEIR)
Keywords: religion; religiousness; religious behavior; secondary school population

Summary/Abstract: The basic purpose of the research is to get insight into levels of religiousness, as well as dominant forms of religious behavior of adolescents in Kosovska Mitrovica, ten years after the bombardment followed by coming of international military troops to Kosovo and Metohija territory. We tried to determine if and to what extent the basic component of religiousness – religious behavior (embodied in participating in performing ordinances, church visits, celebrating slava, having crosses, icons and other religious artifacts in possession in household, giving donations for church…) is followed by other aspects of religiousness, such as religious identification (confessional origin, declaring of interviewees regarding religious conformity…), knowledge of doctrines (as a result of upbringing within the family, attending religion teaching classes, having conversations with representatives of the Church, friends…), understanding relationships between religion and the nation, as well as having tolerance towards members of different religious communities. We also tried to determine the link between socio-demographic characteristics of interviewees and their religiousness, primarily the influence of sex, social background and habitat. The sample of interviewees was formed of secondary school students in Kosovska Mitrovica (N=89).

  • Issue Year: 7/2009
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 319-336
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian
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