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Religious Commitment: Empirical Research in Croatia

A number of empirical researches of religious commitment have been conducted in Croatia over the past twenty years. Almost all of them have been done in the period of former socialist Yugoslavia (where, in its ideological system - and therefore in both its cultural and value systems - non-religiosity and atheism were regarded as desirable attitudes). After the break up of Yugoslavia, Croatia has gone through deep social and political changes (transition and the war) and has become an independent state with ploticial pluralism. Inevitably, that has influenced official attitudes towards religion and the church and their postition in society. Discussions about previous and future researches emerged among the scholars engaged in the sociology of religion. Following those discussions, the ame of this paper is to present how our sociologist have researched the religious commitment (theoretical approach, tools of research, the construction of questionnaires, concepts and indicastors, etc.). Both theoretical and contextual problems are discussed.

Religious commitment:; empirical research; Croatia

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