Popular Religion in the Life of Students in Split

Kovačević, Vlaho; Bilić, Lovre; Spetič, Marin

doi:10.18848/2327-008x/cgp/v11i01/39-54

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“…Popular religion celebrations in the perspective of symbolic interaction in Croatia enter the frame of the paths leading to the sacred, but they (festivities) insufficiently reach it in the social environment [37] and are similar to secular holidays [20] (p. 163). This shows how members of popular religion generally associate religiosity with the psychological and social dimension of belonging and imagination of social relations, failing to achieve stronger bonds in the symbolic community among members of popular religion.…”

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“…This disables the sacral symbolic understanding and determination in a symbolic Christian community [39]. Christian symbols are transformed into the ritual, the cult, the sign whose meanings become the first and most effective factor of integration in society [37] (p. 40). These meanings in Croatia improve unity, gathering and connection of community-family, gender, tribe, or people [23].…”

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“…As soon as the marked reality becomes visible, the sign becomes useless, since it is by its nature always the bridge that connects the two worlds, one of which is hidden by the other, and its meaning is revealed by the sensations of physical nature [17]. The world of symbolic signs is not opposed to the world of things-in-themselves, and does not receive purely immanent value and truth, but is directed towards someone Other and points to someone Other [18] (p. 37). Symbolic interactionism has a triple role in this work: psychological, sociological, and methodological role.…”

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The purpose of this paper was to interpret the usage of symbols in popular religion based on contemporary symbolic interactionism using the reference framework of the symbolic community. The strength of the chosen symbolic interactionist approach is primarily in the research of the role of different dimensions of the religious in understanding the meaning of popular religion in the symbolic community. The qualitative approach and the method of in-depth semi-structured interviews were employed in the research, which responded to the main goal of the research on the meanings the participants of the popular religion attach to the symbolic interactions. A deliberate sample was used for the selection of participants in the popular forms of celebrating the days of Our Lady of Vrpolje, Our Lady of Sinj, and Our Lady of Karavaj as well as the Guardians of Christ’s grave in Vodice, Croatia. According to the results, popular religion, transmitted through visible signs, places believers in a position of physical contact with the supernatural world within a symbolic environment. To achieve this, popular religion displays a need for sacred images, words, sounds, signs, movements, smells. Believers in popular religion seek to establish as simple, intimate, and direct relationship with a deity as possible. The respondents’ answers confirm that the experiential dimension of religiosity is lived primarily on a personal level that precedes the social dimension. For the participants, the religious community has a symbolic character in terms of creating strong bonds between members of society or a social group, especially within the symbolic meaning of a feast day.

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“…The social context of religious life in Croatia is manifested mostly through two periods; the period from the Second Vatican Council to 1990, marked by the dominant socialist-Marxist paradigm, which has pushed religion into the domain of privacy; and the second period from 1990 until today, marked by the birth of the national state, the Homeland War and the transition of Croatian society from the socialist to parliamentary and democratic one (Kovačević et al 2016).…”

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In the context of our work, we want to point out how religion has multiple social functions and as such, under certain circumstances, can serve as a fertile soil for distance and closeness. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of religious self-identification and church attendance on social distance toward Muslims. We applied a questionnaire to students of the University of Split, the city which is geographically in vicinity of the complex of ethnic and religious context of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results showed that religious self-identification and church attendance significantly influence the level of social distance toward Muslims. Believers showed a significantly higher level of social distance, in comparison to respondents who belong but not believe, and others. Respondents who attend church daily or once a week have also a higher level of social distance in comparison to respondents who attend church monthly or rarely and those who never attend church. We have tried to explain the reasons for such research findings, relying on various national, cultural, religious and psychological factors that have been present in the last twenty years after the war in this region.

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Popular Religion in the Life of Students in Split

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