Traditional and Alternative Religiosity in Contemporary Czech Republic: A Comparison of Age Groups
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
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| Description | The subject of the presented contribution is to outline the realized analysis of the current religious situation in the Czech Republic in terms of age. Our analysis is based on quantitative empiric investigations and we seek to answer the question to what extent the age structures of individual denominations differ and we attempt to suggest a relevant explanation. The data from the population census in 2001 represent the basis for the description of the overall age structure in the Czech Republic. These data were further compared to other selected sociological studies, which focus exclusively on religion (ISSR, EVS, DIN ? the Czech qualitative and quantitative research from 2006) The compared data serve as the basis for the answer to the question whether there is a significant difference in the age structure of individual religions and how these differences are reflected in the age structures of the Czech population. It is a two-level comparison. On the first level, we group the obtained data into the following categories: (1) believers according to age, (2) Roman Catholics according to age, (3) traditional Protestants according to age, (4) untraditional Protestants (including Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons) according to age, (5) other untraditional religions according to age, (6) non-believers according to age, and (7) atheists according to age. In the second step, we monitor how the religions are distributed in the Czech population according to the following key: (1) the number of believers in individual age groups, (2) the number of Roman Catholics in individual age groups, (3) the number of traditional Protestants in individual age groups, (4) the number of untraditional protestants (Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons) in individual age groups, (5) the number of other believers in individual age groups, (6) the number of non-believers in individual age groups, (7) the number of atheists in individual age groups.The overall classification of the data serves as the answer to the question of whether there is a statistical importance between age and proclaimed religion. The basis hypotheses that suggest themselves as possible answers to the question of what influences proclaimed religion in the Czech Republic are: religious education and socialization in the family, atheist propaganda and the suppression of the communist regime, secularization trends. |