Sacred Places and Religious Practices among Croatian Spiritual Seekers
A Medjugorje Case Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18957702 |
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| Authors | Marijana Belaj (0000-0002-7231-7811, University of Zagreb, corresponding author), Goran Pavel Šantek (0000-0003-1232-5454, University of Zagreb) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1-2 suppl |
| Pages | 57-79 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Traditiones (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0352-0447 • E-ISSN: 1855-6396 |
| Publisher | The Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3986/traditio2017460405 |
| OpenAlex | W2810525308 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The political, economic, and sociocultural transitions and transformations that Croatia has experienced since the 1990s have also affected the position of the Church in society. In the last decade, institutional religion in Croatia has lost its legitimizing function in society, and religiousness is greatly influenced by the individualization and subjectivization of, or distance from, institutional religious principles and doxa. Internal conflicts within the Church regarding the most known pilgrimage place in Hercegovina, in Medjugorje notwithstanding, the pilgrimage to Medjugorje continues to flourish, upholding the thesis about the “spiritual turn” in contemporary society. *** Politične, gospodarske in družbenokulturne preobrazbe, ki jih je doživela Hrvaška od devetdesetih let prejšnjega stoletja, so vplivale tudi na položaj Cerkve v družbi. V zadnjem desetletju je institucionalna vera na Hrvaškem izgubila legitimno funkcijo v družbi, doživljanje religioznosti pa zaznamujeta individualizacija in subjektivizacija institucionalnih religioznih načel. Kljub različnim stališčem znotraj Cerkve o najpomembnejšem romarskem kraju v Hercegovini, v Medjugorju, število romarjev narašča, kar omogoča domnevo o “duhovnem obratu” v sodobni družbi
Art · Croatian · Humanities · Pilgrimage · Secularization · Sociology · Theology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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