Involvement in religion as a vital value: study of the religious population in Belarus

Authors

  • Svetlana G. Karassyova Belarusian State University, Niezaliežnasci Avenue, 4, 220030, Minsk, Belarus
  • Elena V. Shkurova
  • Sergei I. Shatrauski Minsk Spiritual Academy, Zybickaja Street, 27, 220030, Minsk, Belarus

Keywords:

religiosity, multidimensional model of religiosity, religion, cross-confessional approach, degree of religiosity, value of religion

Abstract

The article presents the results of evaluating of the significance of religion in the life of the followers of different faiths in Belarus The significance of religion is one of the indicators of a multidimensional model of religiosity, used to study the multi-confessional environment. According to the study, Belarusian religious population, regardless of confessional affiliation, sufficiently appreciates the importance of religion in the life, but it captures not so much the existential, notional its function as an abstract-normative, social and regulatory.

Author Biographies

  • Svetlana G. Karassyova, Belarusian State University, Niezaliežnasci Avenue, 4, 220030, Minsk, Belarus

    PhD (philosophy); associate professor at the department of philosophy of culture, faculty of philosophy and social science

  • Elena V. Shkurova

    PhD (sociology); associate professor at the department of sociology, faculty of philosophy and social science

  • Sergei I. Shatrauski, Minsk Spiritual Academy, Zybickaja Street, 27, 220030, Minsk, Belarus

    PhD (divinity); associate professor at the department of apologetics

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2019-03-07

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No. 2 (2017): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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From the Working Table of a Sociologist

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Karassyova, S.G. et al. 2019. Involvement in religion as a vital value: study of the religious population in Belarus. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 2 (Mar. 2019), 103–110.