Serbian Orthodox Religiousness: An Empirical and Comparative Portrait
Serbian Orthodoxy is studied empirically by using different measures of religiousness. After an initial placement of Serbian religiousness in the context of World Values Survey data, a sample of south Serbian university students is compared to student samples from three religions: Bosnian Muslims an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
2008
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Review of religious research
Year: 2008, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-48 |
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| Summary: | Serbian Orthodoxy is studied empirically by using different measures of religiousness. After an initial placement of Serbian religiousness in the context of World Values Survey data, a sample of south Serbian university students is compared to student samples from three religions: Bosnian Muslims and Slovenian Catholics. Using World Values Survey (WVS) measures, results indicate that the Serbian Orthodox prove to be more religious than irreligious; when using our own survey data and more complex measures, the Serbian Orthodox prove to be more religious than Slovenian Catholics, but less religious than Bosnian Muslims, although Serbian Orthodox affiliates do surpass the normative means on certain items. Mysticism, religious experience, and civil religion are not outstanding, in contrast to what might have been expected from the literature. The Serbian Orthodox exhibit a high level of extrinsic psychological religiousness and guilt religiousness, both of which show a significant positive correlation with trait anxiety. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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