Religiosity and Political Values in Central and Eastern Europe

Rosta, Gergely

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“…The relationship between religiosity and political attitudes in ex‐socialist countries is more complex due to the change in the status of religion and the Church after the democratization of political systems (Pickel, 2009). The understanding of these changes is approached from two opposing starting points (Pickel, 2017; Rosta, 2012). Some believe there is an ongoing trend of religiosity revitalization, opposite to the secularization trend in Western Europe.…”

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“…For example, Slovenia is a highly secular country, while Croatia, a neighboring country with the same socialist historical experience and the same religion, is a highly religious country (Inglehart, 2021). Despite these differences, research has revealed that religiosity generally influences party preferences, political attitudes, and orientations in ex‐socialist countries (Rosta, 2012). Rosta stated that this influence can also be explained from two opposite starting points.…”

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“…argue that “religious individuals are more likely to hold conservative views on a wide range of policy issues and are, therefore, more inclined to vote for conservative or right‐wing parties” (Caprara et al., 2018, p. 2). Connections between religiosity and political attitudes have been found in different social contexts, both in Western European countries (Knutsen, 2010), and in ex‐socialist countries with a shorter tradition of democracy (Rosta, 2012).…”

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Religiosity as a predictor of students' political attitudes

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Mrakovčić

2023

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This paper analyzes the relationship between students' level of actual religiosity and their sociodemographic characteristics, political orientation, and political attitudes. The paper is based on an online survey conducted at the University of Rijeka (N = 624) in 2021. The vast majority of our respondents (90%) received the three holy sacraments of initiation in their early childhood and attended Catholic religious education at school. The explanation of the significantly less actual religiosity of students is approached from the position of Pickel's contextualized theory of secularization. Relying on Voas and Day, a composite variable distinguishes highly religious students, moderately religious students, weakly religious students, and non‐religious students on the basis of the respondents' positioning toward religious self‐identification, beliefs, Church attendance, and the importance of religion in one's life. Statistically significant correlations between actual religiosity and political orientation were established. Very religious Catholic students, who are the least numerous and the least homogenous category, are more inclined to right‐wing political orientation and reject ethno‐nationalism/anti‐multiculturalism less and accept clericalism more than other categories of students. In a broader sense, this study reveals that a large number of respondents distance themselves from religion and the Church at student age despite their experience of formal religious socialization at school age. Furthermore, the results suggest that the synergy of the liberalizing effect of education and the tolerant sociocultural atmosphere of an area reduces the influence of religiosity on the political attitudes and orientation of students.

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Section: Theoretical‐conceptual Framework Research Aims and Hypothesesmentioning

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2023

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“…In the past three decades, Romania has experienced a significant revival of religious practices (Rosta 2012; Voicu and Constantin 2012), and an increase in the number of houses of worship, as well as of the public money spent on building them (Andreescu 2007). The first trend has been reported for other Orthodox countries (Brenner 2016; Müller and Neundorf 2012; Northmore-Ball and Evans 2016), although the size of the religious revival tends to be larger in Romania (Sandor and Popescu 2008; Gheorghe 2018).…”

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Religious Supply, Existential Insecurity and Church Attendance in Post-communist Romania

Voicu

2019

Review of Religious Research

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During the last 30 years Romania has experienced a revival of church attendance, and a significant increase in the number of houses of worship, having the highest rate of construction in Europe. The paper provides theoretical arguments that support the idea that the increase in church attendance has roots in the fast growth in the number of houses of worship, which provide easier access to religious services, and help the development of parish communities, which are highly relevant for Eastern Orthodoxy. This growth is the outcome of the privileged position of the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC), which received funding from the central government and in-kind support from local authorities to extend the ROC's infrastructure, in exchange for active support in the political arena granted by the ROC to the party in power. Different from other religious organizations in Romania or other Orthodox churches in post-communist societies, the ROC is a powerful organization, and played its cards to get privileges from the political power during the communist and post-communist eras, which made the ROC more visible and attractive to the Romanian public. The research uses a composition of pooled datasets derived from 18 national and international surveys in Romania, covering a time span of 27 years, from 1991 to 2018, and employs multilevel logistic regression. The hypothesis regarding the relationship between the growth in church attendance and the increasing number of houses of worship is supported by the empirical data. Data have shown that growth in the number of houses of worship may fuel religious revivals, even if the offer is homogenous, and comes from nearly only one religious provider.

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Religion and Politics in the Czech Republic: The Roman Catholic Church and the State

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Lužný

2013

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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The objective of this paper consists in describing and analyzing the position of organized, institutionalized religions in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the role of organized religion in the public sphere of the Czech society, and it pays particular attention to the role of the Roman Catholic Church. The principal aim of this paper consists in describing the secularization in the Czech society, both on the micro (individual level of secularization), and the macro level (societal level of secularization). The juxtaposition of the two levels reveals a discrepancy: the individual level of secularization may be considered relatively high, whereas religion persists on the societal level and comes to be publically discussed on several occasions. The juxtaposition of the two levels of secularization is based on the theory by Karel Dobbelaere. It is based on Dobbelaere"s thesis on the need to distinguish the diversity of the processes connected to secularization on various levels of the society. The paper aims to provide explanatory theoretical framework for the seemingly paradoxical situation when religion continues to play a non-negligible role within the highly secularized Czech society on the societal level. The description of the individual level of secularization in the Czech Republic in this paper is based on the recent censuses carried out by the Czech Statistical Office. The available statistical data reveal a high level of individual secularity within the Czech society: the indicators of religiosity in relation to the organized forms of religion (religious proclamation, religious affiliation and church attendance) are decreasing. Nevertheless, organized religion continues to influence the public sphere of the Czech society, as the cases of the legal fight over the ownership of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague and the Church Property Restitution Bill reveal. The results of the analysis are discussed in relation to the concept of secularization and to the concept of collective memory. The concept of secularization explains the tendencies towards separation of the state and religion and also the decrease of the importance of religion on the individual level. The concept of collective memory provides an explanation for the attempts of the secular state to preserve and strengthen the role of religion.

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Religiosity and Political Values in Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Religiosity as a predictor of students' political attitudes

Religiosity as a predictor of students' political attitudes

Religious Supply, Existential Insecurity and Church Attendance in Post-communist Romania

Religion and Politics in the Czech Republic: The Roman Catholic Church and the State

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