Institucionalna in zasebna religioznost v severovzhodni Sloveniji. Primerjalna analiza slovenskih regij po letu 1969

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Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: religion, northeast Slovenia, statistical regions, privatization of religion Abstract: A comparative analysis of religiosity across Slovenian statistical regions was conducted based on the survey data from the Slovenian Public Opinion project (SPO). It took into consideration available data from 1969 to 2016 and compared four regions of northeast Slovenia (Pomurska, Podravska, Koroška and Savinjska) with other regions in the country. Special attention was devoted to the thesis on privatization of religion in (post)modern societies, as well as to a more general thesis of secularization. Results of the analysis showed that fluctuations in religiosity in Slovenia as a whole were compatible with some previous observations: Until 1978, there was a significant decline in religiosity. This trend then reversed and revitalization of religion took place up until early 1990s. Since then, during the post-socialist period, religiosity did not change much in any direction. The crucial observation within these fluctuations is that the specific features of northeast regions endured through the entire observed period. These specific features are visible mostly in terms of relatively high levels of religiosity in general, as well as in very high levels of institutional religiosity and relatively low levels of private religiosity.