PORTRET KATOLIČKE UDRUGE MLADIH ISTRE – STRUKTURA, MOTIVI I ISKUSTVA ČLANOVA
PORTRAIT OF THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION OF ISTRIA'S YOUTH – STRUCTURE, MOTIVES AND EXPERIENCE OF MEMBERS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author portrays the Catholic Association of Istria's Youth (KUMI) through an empirical research of sociodemographic structure, motives for joining, experiences, attitudes towards the Catholic Church and suggestions of its members. The intent was to demonstrate the dynamics of the emergence and development of the young believers' movement and the phenomenology and identification of the youths' need for belonging to a community. Not as something imposed by the existing structures, but as an authentic impulse in every member who sees in such a profiled community the possibility for satisfying their spiritual and social needs. The theoretical and conceptual framework of the research consists of psychological, sociological and theological reviews of the thesis concerning the need for belonging to a community: from Maslow's social motives, Tonnies' analysis of the concepts of community and society to some biblical images on togetherness.

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