HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY?
The article examines the question of secularization of Europe, and in particular of Romania, by using multiple international data sets. Secularization has been defined separation of the state government and religious authority resulting in a decrease in church attendance, a diminished trust in reli...
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| description | The article examines the question of secularization of Europe, and in particular of Romania, by using multiple international data sets. Secularization has been defined separation of the state government and religious authority resulting in a decrease in
church attendance, a diminished trust in religious institutions, a lessening of religions’ importance in society, an increase in religious diversity with a concomitant decrease in group cohesiveness, and the rise of situational ethics and moral relativism. Several theories of secularization are explored in an effort to determine the presence of a secular continuum. Although there may be an increase of secular behaviours in member
states of the European Union, a claim of growing secularism in Romania is not supported by an examination of the multiple data sets |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3ce56d7ba88a42a19cbbc9f660ef815a2022-12-22T03:08:41ZengRomanian AcademyRevista Română de Sociologie1224-92622016-04-011-2/2016135149HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY?IRINA STAHL0Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Romanian AcademyThe article examines the question of secularization of Europe, and in particular of Romania, by using multiple international data sets. Secularization has been defined separation of the state government and religious authority resulting in a decrease in church attendance, a diminished trust in religious institutions, a lessening of religions’ importance in society, an increase in religious diversity with a concomitant decrease in group cohesiveness, and the rise of situational ethics and moral relativism. Several theories of secularization are explored in an effort to determine the presence of a secular continuum. Although there may be an increase of secular behaviours in member states of the European Union, a claim of growing secularism in Romania is not supported by an examination of the multiple data setshttp://revistadesociologie.ro/en/sites/default/files/09-irinas_1.pdf |
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| title | HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY? |
| title_full | HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY? |
| title_fullStr | HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY? |
| title_full_unstemmed | HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY? |
| title_short | HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY? |
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