Religiozita v dobe neskorej modernity: Prípad Slovensko. (Czech)

Religiosity in the Late Modern Period: The Case of Slovakia. (English)

This article is focused on the research of recent forms of religious and spiritual identities in Slovakia after the revolution in 1989. First the author addresses the most current theoretical approaches from the point of view of sociology of religion. The core of the article is devoted to the distinction between rural and urban religious and spiritual identities. The author claims that the rural identities are still local, while urban identities are translocal. The next part of the study is devoted to the translocal and transtemporal character of urban spiritual identities. The author points out that recent sociological approaches reconsider the categories of "churchliness", "confession" and "conversion". Following the various forms of conversions and various forms of institutional or private forms of religiosity/spirituality, a typology is outlined dealing with experimental religiosity, multileveled religiosity, parallel religiosity, migratory religiosity, composite religiosity, and fuzzy religiosity. To conclude, the thesis of modernity of A. Giddens is challenged and attention is turned to considering the fact that people living in different environment:; (e.g. rural and urban) may react to the same process in different ways, applying the most recent theories of modernity from R. Inglehart, S. N. Eisenstadt and G. Davie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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