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TRANSFORMATIONS OF CYRILLO-METHODIAN TRADITION IN CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOSITY

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Kondrla P., Majda P., Králik R., Máhrik T.
Konštantínove listy
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2022
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vol. 15
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issue 2
149 - 159
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The contribution of the Cyrillo-Methodian religious and cultural mission has been described from different perspectives and points of view. The aim of the study is to examine how the basic principles of the Thessalonian brothers’ mission are interpreted and how they are experienced and updated in the current religiosity and cultural tradition. In our study, we focus on current trends that appear in today’s religiosity survival which are based on the results of the research carried out in 2020, related to the prospects of development of religiosity in Slovakia. From a methodological point of view, the text compares the underlying principles of religiosity, which are integrated in the teachings of Cyril and Methodius with current trends and ideas of the younger generation about their own religiosity. The aim of the study is to determine whether in the scenarios of the development of religiosity we find the presence of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition and how they are transformed in the current conditions.
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EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO SPIRITUALITY

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Strizenec M.
Studia Psychologica
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2004
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vol. 46
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issue 2
173-177
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The basic premise for improving the instruments used in investigating spirituality lies in its definition and particularly its relation to religiosity. Following a concise overview of the scales used thus far, we present the results of a preliminary verification of D.A. MacDonald's ESI scale.
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ON FOLK THEODICY (O teodycei ludowej)

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Jankowski J.
Etnografia Polska
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2009
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vol. 53
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issue 1-2
175-186
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The article focuses on the issue of explanations of everyday misfortunes by members of a local community. Its goal is to show that a final result of such explanations is creation of complex philosophical system strongly dependent on the idea of God. The author describes process, in which his interlocutors 'justify' their misfortunes and sufferings. In that way they construct a local theodicy - a wide system of meanings and explanations that makes all unexpected situations valid in a broader religious context. Results of author's research show that, above all, using paradigm of local theodicy helps his interlocutors defend God from accusations of being unjust. Such attitude serves them to build a kind of epistemological structure in which great and good God can exist simultaneously with violence, suffering and pain which are, in consequence, seen as a part of different order. What is wrong and bad thus, must have some kind of sense even if one cannot understand it himself. Without constructing this local form of theodicy, the interlocutors could not share Christian values and be a part of a community based on these values. Conducted research has shown that some aspects of author's interlocutors' lives, would be very difficult to explain without a concept of local theodicy and if this idea did not exist, their faith would be seriously challenged.
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RELIGIOSITY BEHIND BARS: FORMS OF INMATE'S RELIGIOSITY IN THE CZECH PRISON SYSTEM

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Váně J., Dirga L.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2016
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vol. 48
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issue 6
641 – 663
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The text focuses on the multiple forms of religiosity (based on different types of motivation) of inmates in Czech prisons from the perspective of three groups of respondents: prison inmates, prison guards and representatives of a number of churches. The study is based on an ethnographic study of prisons in the Czech Republic. The data corpus includes qualitative interviews with selected actors in the prison world, material gathered through observations inside prisons and an analysis of the documentation on the Czech penitentiary system. Through this research, we found that the key respondents feel that there is some ambivalence around the religiosity of inmates and that the pragmatic approach many inmates take to faith is becoming a controversial issue. Our research demonstrated that the presence of religiosity of inmates in prison is not really accepted in a clearly positive manner as it may seem at first glance. On the contrary, the presence of it in prisons has become the subject of controversy among its main actors.
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CYRILO-METODSKÝ KULT A RELIGIOZITA NA SLOVENSKU V 19. – 21. STOROČÍ

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Hetényi M.
Konštantínove listy
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2019
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vol. 12
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issue 1
141 - 158
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The paper focuses on the significance of the Cyrillo-Methodian cult and it is based on the findings of the long-term research. It deals with the diffusion and maintenance of cultural heritage of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in modern Slovak history. One of the aims of the paper is to study the impact of the Cyrillo-Methodian cult within a wider context of religiosity of social groups and classes in Slovakia. It presents some specific features of the cult of Ss. Cyril and Methodius and their disciples in Slovakia, and highlights the impact of the current church-political situation on the growth of the cult and its influence on political, church and other professional institutions. Synchronic and diachronic approach used in interdisciplinary research allowed a complex view on the spread of the cult in specific historical periods in Slovakia. Historical analysis is followed by the author’s reflections on how the Cyrillo-Methodian cultural heritage relates to the religious ethical level. The Solun brothers’ mission emphasised piety (and a religious worldview per se) typical for the eastern religiosity. The study tries to define several aspects of the brothers’ work; especially those which deal with the growth of the spiritual essence of the society. As the Second Vatican Council and the documents of Pope John Paul II show, these issues remain topical and inspiring even today.
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WISE RELIGIOSITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOSITY AND WISDOM MODERATED BY PERSONALITY TRAITS

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Adamovová L.
Studia Psychologica
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2013
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vol. 55
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issue 3
181 – 194
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Aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between religiosity based on Wulff’s theory (1991, 1997) and wisdom as defined and operationalized by Ardelt (2003, 2004). The sample consisted of 125 university students aged between 17 and 29 year with the mean age 23.5 years and standard deviation 2.6 years. Men formed 69.6 percent (n = 87) and women 30.4 percent (n = 38) of the sample. Religiosity was measured by the Post-Critical Belief Scale PCBS (Duriez et al., 2000), wisdom was measured by the Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale 3D-WS (Ardelt, 2003), and NEO FFI (Costa, McCrae, 1992) was used to measure personality traits. It was found that orthodoxy positively correlates with cognitive and reflective dimensions of wisdom. External critique correlates positively with affective dimension of wisdom. When testing the moderation hypothesis, we found that openness moderates the relationships between orthodoxy and cognitive as well as reflective dimensions of wisdom and between second naivetè and cognitive dimension of wisdom. Conscientiousness moderates the relationship between external critique and cognitive dimension of wisdom and between relativism and affective dimension of wisdom. The results are discussed with the existing literature.
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SOME FACES OF THE INTERNET CATHOLIC RELIGIOUSNESS

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Kuzma I.
Etnografia Polska
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2005
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vol. 49
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issue 1-2
125-145
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The World Wide Web can be included to the subjects of interest for ethnology, not only as a phenomenon in itself which is worth studying, but also as the area where particular phenomena occur. The Internet offers a different way of pereceiving time and space, gives new quality to the concepts of community, group and communication. It also encourages consideration on status and role of an individual. Studies on Internet require re-considering some specific cultural manifestations: experience and emotions, including experiences of religious character. The author studies particular cultural phenomena as they are present in the Internet in the context of the ' Web culture'. These cultural phenomena belong to forms of contemporary Catholic religiousness. Internet brings about changes in perceiving the temporal-spatial sacred reality where revelations take place and visionaries and healers act. Internauts- the faithful and the pilgrims meet online, on the Web site of one of the centres of the Marian cult using a box of prayer intentions. The Internet favours autonomy, indepedence - individuality. Favourable conditions for them lie in the anonimity and the very act of written communication - communication of the exclusive kind (according to the concept used by the Polish folklorists Piotr Kowalski who has studied written votive offerings). Considering the contemporary online intention entries the author concludes that due to some new rhetorical and stylistic forms the statements can be defined as inclusive. The faithful are supposed to reveal, to expose their private, emotional life.This results in establishing a particular form of community - the community of emotion, whose point of reference is the reality of the sacred and Virgin Mary. The emotions ensure unity of religious experience, contributing to the power of interpersonal bonds. Though the community expresses itself in virtual reality, its model is the 'real' Church, i.e. community of the faithful. We can't say that the Web has started any revolution in the forms of religiousness, although it enables the repertoir of cultural means of expression to be richer and broader. Physical being has been replaced by a variety of graphic signs and by written text. Telling about oneself has replaced ritual gestures. Owing to its specific qualities the Web has simply shifted the emphasis put on particular elements.That is why it is more accurate to write about 'the Internet forms (faces) of Catholic religiousness' than to use the concept of 'Internet Catholic religiousenss'.
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IMPLICIT THEORIES OF RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AMONG SLOVAK YOUNG ADULTS

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Adamovova L.
Studia Psychologica
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2005
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vol. 47
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issue 3
235-246
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Little attention is being paid to the implicit theories of different dimensions of religiosity that would take into account the subjective side of understanding of the phenomenon. Therefore, in the present study, lay definitions of religious fundamentalism were investigated among young adults in Slovakia. Participants were recruited by the snowball method of sampling via the Internet and they were asked to write down their own personal definitions of religious fundamentalism. Our sample consisted of 50 adults (44% females and 56% males) aged between 19 and 60 years (AM = 28.5). Regarding education, 74% were university graduates, 14% were undergraduates, and 12% had secondary education. Members of a non-specified religious group formed 62% of the sample, 26% were not members of any such group, and 12% were formal but nonpracticing members of their group. The data were analyzed by the Constant Comparison Method (Grounded Theory Methodology). The results showed the category structure of the notion which yielded formal and content categories. Within the content categories, Extremism (Extremism in belief and in behavior), Dealing with otherness (Attitudes toward otherness and Reactions to otherness), and Personality traits, states, and needs emerged. The discussion bears on a comparison between personal understanding of religious fundamentalism and previous research findings based on a review of the pertinent literature.
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Byt i niebyt. Wokółparmenidesowe rozmyślania ontologiczne

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Lipiec J.
Studia Religiologica
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2010
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vol. 43
219-229
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Starting from the judgement of Parmenides that there is existence but non-existence is not, the author discusses the issues of existence in Parmenides. This subject is examined not only as an ontological problem (what is existence per se), but also as an epistemological problem. Using Parmenides' thesis of the cognisability of 'non-existence', the author considers the problem of the legitimacy of the concept of 'non-existence' (how is it possible to perceive something which is not there), making use of the conception of modi existentiae (real existence, intentional existence). The problem of the complexity and simplicity of existence is also considered. Alongside the perception of existence as that which is absolutely simple, he also considers as possible the equally gentle, emergent and organicistic interpretation of the conception of existence according to Parmenides. At the same time, the contemplations in the article aim to show in what way the problem of existence as formulated by Parmenides has for centuries inspired philosophy and continues to do so.
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Religia – religijność – duchowość. Przemiany zjawiska i ewolucja pojęcia

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Motak D.
Studia Religiologica
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2010
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vol. 43
201-218
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An effect of the revision of the secularisation thesis is an array of conceptions attempting to capture the essence of the modern transformations of religions and the shape of non-traditional forms of religiosity. The concept of '(new) spirituality', which is supposed to signal a new religious megatrend, today aspires to the role of 'universal key' to contemporary analysis of religion. The aim of this article is to attempt to clarify the meaning of this term by reconstructing the origins of spirituality - the phenomenon itself as well as the term used to describe it. The concepts used to describe this subject are ordered in the sequence religion - religiosity - spirituality, which also corresponds to the direction of religious transformations in the West. The course of these changes is presented in a three-phase model of the origins of new spirituality based on the metaphor of change of the concentration of religious material: from the solid body, via fluid form to a gaseous state. This model is diachronic in character, but is also a reflection of synchronic order (the spectrum whose poles correspond to traditional religion and new spirituality).
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ÚLOHA NÁBOŽENSKÝCH EXPERTOV VO VYSVETLENÍ NÁBOŽENSKÉHO SPRÁVANIA LAIKOV

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Uhrin M.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2018
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vol. 25
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issue 2
40 – 63
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The paper pays attention to an important aspect of religious practice - how people interpret their behaviour in relation to the expert ´s statements. I interpret the ethnographic data from perspective of the selected cognitive theories. In particular, I use the concept of traditional discourse and the theory of two modes of religiosity. The data were collected during ethnographic research in 3 villages situated in eastern Slovakia (2013), in central Slovakia (2015), and in western Slovakia (2017). I explore how non-experts address religious expert ś statements, attitudes, and behaviour when they explain their own attitudes and behaviour in religious sphere. I consider domains of life in which the expert ´s statements and behaviour are not relevant for layperson ś religious attitudes and actions and can even be interpreted negatively. I also address differences in explanations of religious expert ś and layperson ś attitudes. I argue that laypersons explain their attitudes and actions with reference to religious expert´s statements not only in domains of religion-related activities.
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POČIATKY INŠTITUCIONALIZOVANEJ SOCIOLÓGIE NÁBOŽENSTVA A PRVÝ REPREZENTATÍVNY VÝSKUMU RELIGIOZITY OBYVATEĽOV SLOVENSKA

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Tížik M.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2016
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vol. 48
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issue 5
500 – 538
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In research on the history of Slovak sociology, little attention has been paid to the history and development of the sociology of religion. In research that has addressed the institutionalization of sociology in the 1960’s and of the sociology of religion within the broader framework of the history of the discipline in Slovakia, attention has largely concentrated on noteworthy individual researchers. As a result, the history of empirical sociology in Slovakia has omitted the role played by a team of people who, in autumn 1968, conducted the first known Slovakia-wide survey of religiosity. Since the original filled-in survey questionnaires have been found, it is now possible to reconstruct the survey and thoroughly analyse its results, while at the same time conducting new research into the forms of religiosity present in Slovakia at the end of the 1960’s, which enables us to correct some previous results and, above all, to interpret adequately the partial survey results that were available after the autumn 1968 survey was conducted. This involved a process both of survey reconstruction and of uncovering and mapping the not-quite-successful beginnings of the institutionalization of the sociology of religion in Slovakia. In addition, this work exposed how important collective activity was in preparing the survey, and how dependent it was on the changing conditions of political power during the implementation of empirical sociological research, and during the survey research in particular, at this period in the history of reestablishment of sociology in Slovakia.
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Čemu Češi věří: dimenze soudobé české religiozity

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Hamplova D.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 4
703-723
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Although the Czech Republic is usually regarded as one of the most secular countries in Europe, current sociological surveys indicate that there is still a strong interest in supernatural and spiritual questions. This article begins by documenting the popularity of various religious concepts and then proceeds to analyse the socio-demographic factors that influence religious beliefs. The authoress tries to answer the question of whether and how people who believe in some kind of religious phenomenon differ in terms of sociodemographic characteristics from those who do not believe. There are two dimensions behind religious statements: a 'traditional' Christian outlook and an 'alternative' view connected with a belief in the power of magic. Further analyses indicated that traditional and alternative religious beliefs are connected with numerous socio-demographic characteristics, the most important of which is religious socialisation, measured by the frequency with which a person attended at religious services as a child and by the religious denomination of a person's mother.
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NEW DATA FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE POST CRITICAL BELIEF SCALE - THEORY AND METHODOLOGY (Ujabb adatok a Kritika Utani Vallasossag Skala alkalmazasahoz - elmelet es modszertan)

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Martos T., Kezdy A., Robu M., Urban S., Horvath-Szabo K.
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
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2009
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vol. 64
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issue 4
643-669
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Post Critical Belief Scale (Horvath - Szabo, 2003; Hutsebaut, 1996) orders different approaches towards religion into two dimensions: Inclusion vs. Exclusion of Transcendence and Symbolic vs. Literal processing of religious contents. Recently a new computational method was developed for the scale directly assessing the underlying two-dimensional structure by PCA. These dimensions can be henceforth associated with several other variables. Recently published results as well as theoretical and methodological aspects of the computational process will be reviewed in the article. Applicability of the method was tested on a sample of 1820 subjects. Results show that internal structure of the Flemish and Hungarian versions of the scale is predominantly identical. Existence of the two dimensions could be found in Hungarian sample regardless of gender and denomination. Furthermore, stability of the internal structure was high across the subsamples. The authors proposed a shortened 18 item version of the scale that can be seen as a substitute of the original 33 item version. In sum, their results showed that two-dimensional computation of the Post Critical Belief Scale is a reliable method that can provide new insights for psychological investigation of religiosity.
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MALADAPTIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS, RELIGIOSITY AND SPIRITUALITY AS PREDICTORS OF EPISTEMICALLY UNFOUNDED BELIEFS

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Teličák P., Halama P.
Studia Psychologica
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2021
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vol. 63
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issue 2
175 – 189
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The present research focuses on the question whether spirituality, religiosity and maladaptive personality traits, as measured by the PID-5 (antagonism, psychoticism, disinhibition, negative affectivity, detachment), predict epistemologically unfounded beliefs (conspiracies, pseudo-science and paranormal beliefs). The sample included 829 participants recruited through social networks (58% women, mean age 29.98 years). The results showed that especially psychoticism is a positive predictor of all types of epistemologically unfounded beliefs (EUB). Spirituality and religiosity predicted only paranormal beliefs with very small effect size. No interaction between psychoticism and spirituality/religiosity in prediction of EUB was found. Results confirmed that some maladaptive personality traits (especially psychoticism) can play a significant role in EUB and should be taken into account when considering sources of EUB at the individual level.
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REFLEXION OF RELIGIOSITY IN SLOVAKIA AND SOME NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

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Žuffa J.
Sociálno-zdravotnícke spektrum
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2016
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vol. 4
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issue 1
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Effectivity of this research is based on social and pastoral work and the reflection of values and life-style changes in the society. This paper analyses the religiosity in Slovakia and neighbour countries based on the “Aufbruch” survey done at the University of Vienna. Research measures religiosity of people in 14 countries. Values of religiosity are divided into three dimensions, namely personal religiosity, contents of faith and relationship with the Church. In the paper, we compare some chosen values from the research in the year 1997 and 2007. Based on the survey results, it is possible to create three groups of people with different religiosity status: orthodox-religious, cultural-religious and seculars. The chapter “Short historical excurse” continues with analysis of some historical facts in the Slovak society after the political changes in 1989 and their influence at the religiosity. The development of Slovak society and the Catholic Church in Slovakia is described by following periods of personal development: childhood, puberty, teenager and post-teenager period. The last part of the paper concludes some opportunities for pastoral theology to work with actual topics in the “adult time” of society and the Church. The most important result tends to be the necessity for Church to be a strong discussion partner in the Europa-values discussion, and the wish to remain the “Agency of hope” also for people who do not see themselves as members of any religion.
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WHO AM I, WHERE DO I BELONG, WHAT IS MY FAITH? PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS OF THIRD CULTURE KIDS

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Zakrzewska-Wirkus: K.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2014
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vol. 40
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issue 3(153)
129-138
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The following paper concerns the topic of cross-cultural transition of Third Culture Kids and its determinants: personality, attachment style and religiosity. Third Culture Kids are understood in accordance with David Pollock and Van Reken as those who at least part of their childhood spent abroad. The results of the conducted research suggest that personality, measured by the Rorschach Inkblot Test, strongly determines emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects of the process. Factors such as: anxiety and lack of emotional stability seem to be of great importance. Moreover, during cross-cultural transition the attachment style, developed in relations with parents or other attachment figures, strongly determines the building of relationships abroad. High distress, part and parcel of the process, brings out dysfunctional character of attachment style. Other typical traces mentioned in monograph devoted to Third Culture Kids by Pollock and Van Reken, as: problems with decision making and identity, lacking sense of belonging, unresolved grief, were also evidenced in my research. Religion and spirituality might be used as a coping strategy during cross-cultural transition. However, it seems very often not to be perceived as such or neglected by interviewees in the research.
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Religijność a cechy osobowości u studentów warszawskich uczelni wyższych

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Dąbrowska A. D., Narkiewicz-Jodko W.
Psychologia-Etologia-Genetyka
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2013
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vol. 27
25-40
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The object of this research is the relationship of religiosity and Big Five personality traits. Religiosity has been defined as a three-way property (spiritual, intellectual and physical), and for the measurement of religiosity a questionnaire was constructed containing 4 bipolar scales: Dualism, Magical Religiosity, Intellectual Openness and Ritualism. The study group consisted of 260 Polish students of Warsaw universities. Correlation and group comparison were used for the analysis. Groups were distinguished on the basis of the results obtained on a single religiosity scale or the configuration of two scales (religious types). Theists showed the highest neuroticism. People with high magical religiosity, open-minded, non-practicing religion and atheists were the most open to experience. The most agreeable were recipients adopting a dualistic ontology (theistic or magical belief), particularly if they were practicing religion and had a closed-mind. The highest conscientiousness had ritualists, agnostics (compared to the atheists), and the closed magical type (high magical religiosity and a closed-mind structure). Extraversion showed no relationship with any of the religiosity scale – only agnostics showed higher level of this trait at the tendency level in comparison with the atheists.
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NOVÉ CIRKVI A NÁBOŽENSKÉ SPOLOČNOSTI VO VZŤAHU SO ŠTÁTOM

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Potomová K.
Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
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2014
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vol. 97
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issue 6
603 – 620
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The article deals with cults and new religious movements in relation to the state in a religiously neutral state and a state with an official religion. The article presents the position of religiosity in Austria, the legal frame for the registration of new religious movements as well as the specifics of the position of new religious movements as the example of the situation in a religiously neutral state. The next part analyses the situation in relation to the religious movements in Denmark, which is a state with an official religion and describes the position of the state church, the formation and dissolution of religious movements and legislative changes in the past decades in Denmark. The article explores the phenonemons in the relation of the state and religious movements according to the scope of secularisation in the state via comparative method. The contribution of the article is in the enrichment of the problematics of the position of new religious movements from the dual secular state – religious state point of view in the context of the religious freedom and the dynamic relations concerned.
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SV. CYRIL A METOD V SLOVENSKEJ POÉZII 20. A 21. STOROČIA

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Gallik J.
Konštantínove listy
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2016
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vol. 9
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issue 2
98 – 105
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The study aims to draw attention to the reflection of legacy of the Christian mission of the Thessalonian Saints – brothers Constantine-Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia, as well as on the influence of their artistic work on the Slovak poetry of the 20th and 21st century, because the Christian-humanistic idea stream has been present in the history of Slovak literature with its primary focus on bringing the basic spiritual-religious principles to literature.
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