Symbiosis in Diversity: The Specific Character of Slovakia’s Religious Landscape

Majo, Juraj

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“…In the long term, Slovakia can be considered a predominantly Catholic country with several historically important Christian minorities, especially Lutherans (Majo 2011(Majo , 2015Podolinská et al 2019;Tížik 2012). However, during the time of state socialism, a separate and numerically significant group of people emerged who did not subscribe to any denomination (Tížik 2015(Tížik , 2019.…”

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Forms of Non/Religiosity in Slovakia after 1989

Tížik

2022

Religions

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This study analyses in detail the dynamics of the development of different types of worldviews (religious and particularly non-religious) in Slovakia. It is based on the results of four censuses along with the European Values Study (EVS) conducted in Slovakia in 1991, 1999, 2008, and 2017. The basic analytical tool is the typological method based on data from the EVS. The results show that in Slovakia, among the large number of possible theoretical types of worldviews, only five are empirically present in an analysable quantity, two of which concern people without religious affiliation. The results show that in this latter group, which has remained around 25% over the long term in Slovakia, the majority are rather indifferent to religion and only about one-fifth of them (4.5% of the total population in 2017) are people who can be considered atheists.

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Forms of Non/Religiosity in Slovakia after 1989

Tížik

2022

Religions

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“…Podobne Kong (2010, s. 757) naznačuje množstvo spôsobov v ktorých každodenné priestory môžu byť implikované vo vytváraní náboženských významov, legitimizácie, udržiavaniu a zdokonaľovaniu, či spochybňovaniu náboženského života, viery, praktizovania a identít. Geografia náboženstiev ide ďalej ako popisovanie kultúrnej krajiny (cultural landscapes) a priestorového rozmiestnenia smerom 1 Jedna z mála výrazne geografických konceptualizácii relígie ako priestorového organizmu bola prevzatá od Büttnera (1980) a publikovaná vo viacerých slovenských prácach (Matlovič 2001, Matlovič 2006, Majo 2015 2005, s. 9). Aj tento pohľad dáva za pravdu komplexnému videniu priestoru, kedy náboženská identita nemôže byť extrahovaná od ostatných a vyzdvihnutá ako determinant spoločenských procesov v regióne, ale skôr ako analytická veličina, optika, či platforma prostredníctvom ktorej tieto procesy možno skúmať.…”

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New challenges for the Slovakian geography of religions in a dynamic society

Majo

2021

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Religion represents an appealing topic for social science research. Especially in Eastern European countries, the resurgence of religious identities and practices poses many questions that are of interest to human geography. We approach this research gap in Slovakia, outlining the main research topics that have dominated the scientific field, especially atlases and census data analyses. This paper proposes several possible points of interest where research in Slovakian (and possibly Eastern Central European) religion can proceed. Topics such as secularization, non-religion and demographic aspects of religion, like research in suburban areas and areas of religious identity diminution, are potentially attractive, yet not thoroughly researched, fields. Geographers of religion should be more audible with their analysis of the relationship of religious/non-religious identity and space construction in certain contexts.

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“…The research of demographic evolution, but especially of the two structures, was the subject of analysis for researchers from both Romania and other countries (Clark, 2002;Kamusella, 2004;Mukharyamov, 2004;Akturk, 2007;Gumenai, 2008;Herman, 2009;Ghiță, 2011;Macháček, 2011;Truzzi and Bassanezi, 2013;Scarpim, 2014;Tofan, 2014;Majo, 2015;Matlovič et al, 2015;Shemshurenko et al, 2016;Simoni and Dagnino, 2016;Darulová et al, 2018;Zekanovic and Gnjato, 2018;Gostyusheva and Dolzhikov, 2019;Lung, 2019a, b;Ilieș et al, 2020;Lung and Mureșan, 2020). The studies were addressed from different perspectives, because both ethnicity and confession are an important support of human understanding and living.…”

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Ethnic and Religious Disparities in the Apusenii Sălajului From Communism to Capitalism

Lung¹

2021

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The aim of this study was to achieve an evolutionary-temporal analysis of demographic evolution, ethnic and confessional structure in Apusenii Sălajului. The period subjected to the study begins with the abdication of King Mihai I and the establishment of communism in Romania in the year 1948. The two demographic structures have undergone significant influences from the regime, contributing decisively to their modification. Unfortunately, the confessional structure had the most to suffer because of the atheism promoted by the communists. In Apusenii Sălajului there is an important confessional diversity due to several ethnicities that populate the mountain space. The most destructive confessional community in the Apusenii Sălajului was the Greek Catholic. In the year 1948, the regime banned this confession, with the population constrained to convert to the Orthodox confessional. Priests who did not obey, were arrested and convicted, many dying in prisons, as was the case of bishops. Because of these repression, the population passed to the Orthodox confession. All confessions were compelled to pass to the Orthodox cult, being the only cult accepted by the regime. Five censuses were used to carry out the study, from 1941, 1956, 1977, 1992 and 2011. The census of 1956 and 1977 are those of the Communist period that did not record the confession. Thus, in order to be able to analyze and observe the significant changes we used the data from the census in the year 1941.

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Symbiosis in Diversity: The Specific Character of Slovakia’s Religious Landscape

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Forms of Non/Religiosity in Slovakia after 1989

Forms of Non/Religiosity in Slovakia after 1989

New challenges for the Slovakian geography of religions in a dynamic society

Ethnic and Religious Disparities in the Apusenii Sălajului From Communism to Capitalism

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