Religious Europe, Russia and Serbia: Past and present (Arguments of empirical evidence: The case of Europe)

• Main Author: Blagojević Mirko
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade 2008-01-01
• Series: Filozofija i Društvo
• Subjects: religion; church; religiousness; attachment to the church and religion; religious Europe; religious Russia; religious Serbia
• Online Access: http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2008/0353-57380801275B.pdf

The author has envisaged to publish three articles in three issues of "Philosophy and Society" magazine in which, relying on the empirical scientific evidence, plans to reveal the scope and level of religiousness in some European countries, then to study the case of Russia in a separate text and finally to analyze religiousness of people in Serbia and their attachment to the church and religion. This sequence of publication has its own logics looking forward to the empirical research called "European Values Study" - a longitudinal and international comparative survey of human values - in almost all European countries including, for the first time, Serbia in 2008, the author first aims to present results of previous sociological research which are representative for the area of Europe, and then for the Orthodox area in the country with the highest number of Orthodox believers in the world. Therefore, in the last article the author will be able to compare the religious situation in Serbia not only with the (non)-religious Europe but the (non)-religious Orthodox Russia as well.