| Title: | Predicting civil religion at a cross-cultural level |
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| Authors: | ID Flere, Sergej (Author)
ID Lavrič, Miran (Author) |
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| Files: |  Psihologija_2009_Flere,_Lavric_Predicting_civil_religion_at_a_cross-cultural_level.pdf (258,08 KB)
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PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/2265709d-11a0-4363-a49c-cd6452798ddb
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | The concept of civil religion has caught major attention among scholars studying the junction of religion and politics (J.-J. Rousseau, E. Durkheim, R. Bellah). The notion focuses on the phenomenon of cultural contents sacralizing and ritualizing the ruling political institutions of a society, extending support to the integration of the political and social system at a cultural level. The notion of civil religion has recently been operationalized crossculturally, but light has not been shed upon its predictors. In this paper authoritarianism is tested as a predictor of civil religion cross-culturally. Four student samples of Bosnian, Serbian, Slovenian and US students were analyzed. Very strong, significant associations between authoritarianism, as operationalized by a modified Lane scale, and civil religion were found in all cases. Moreover, upon introducing femininity, anxiety and gender into the analysis, a strong, dominant and significant impact on the part of authoritarianism was still found when civil religion was observed crossculturally. When the same predictors were applied to explaining general religiosity, authoritarianism fell short of being a significant predictor in most of the environments observed. Such results suggest an especially close link between civil religion and authoritarianism. |
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| Keywords: | sociology of religion, civil religion, authoritarianism, religiosity, intercultural differences, religious orientation, Serbian orthodoxy, Slovenian catholicism, Bosnian Islam, cross-cultural analyses, anxiety |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Year of publishing: | 2009 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 159-171 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 42, št. 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-35618  |
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| ISSN: | 0048-5705 |
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| UDC: | 316.74:2 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0048-5705 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 16974088 |
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| DOI: | 10.2298/PSI0902159F |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:1BJVPDOI |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 07.06.2012 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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