Tarp inercijo s ir tradiciškumo: lietuvių religingumo bruožai
Between inertia and traditionalism: features of Lithuanian religiousness

Summary/Abstract: The article, drawing on the data of the research of European values, deals with changes in religiousness and morals in post-Communist Lithuania against the background of religious processes in other countries. The attention is focused on the analysis of personal religious identity, christianness, the institution of the church, moral forgiveness and civic morality. Three major forms of religiousness are singled out: religiousness by conviction, traditional religiousness and inert religiousness. Depending on what type of inhabitants is dominant in a country, six types of countries have been distinguished. In the West, the main tendency of religiousness is the transformation of traditional religiousness into the countries of inert religiousness, and the latter into irreligious ones. In Lithuania, inert religiousness is dominant, but religious traditions still play an important role in the lives of part of the population.

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