Being Nonreligious in Croatia: Managing Belonging and Non-Belonging

Catholicism in the Croatian context has been one of the most powerful sources of collective belonging for centuries. Since the fall of socialism, desecularization tendencies have manifested as homogenization, collectivization, and deprivatization of religion. (Non)religiosity became a contested issu...

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Main Author: Hazdovac Bajić, Nikolina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 5
Further subjects:B nonreligiosity
B religious belonging
B collective religion
B Catholicism
B conformism
B Croatia
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