Convictions religieuses de la jeunesse hongroise scolaire et etudiante
Enquiries have been conducted over a period of more than four years amongst college and high school students in order to obtain a scientific view of religious conviction among youth. The author sets out to analyse each one of these enquiries in the light of the sociology of religion. He tries to pla...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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[1968]
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Social compass
Year: 1968, Volume: 15, Issue: 4, Pages: 403-411 |
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| Summary: | Enquiries have been conducted over a period of more than four years amongst college and high school students in order to obtain a scientific view of religious conviction among youth. The author sets out to analyse each one of these enquiries in the light of the sociology of religion. He tries to place youth in its general statistical context. The background to these researches is made up on the one hand by the phenomenon of urbanisation and on the other by the institutional organization of the Catholic Church in Hungary as it appears today, i.e. without a major Catholic newspaper, without youth organizations and without the teaching of religion. After briefly tracing the history of socio-religious research in Hungary, the author points out that three methods have been used in the literature which deals with the religious convictions of Hungarian youth, i.e. interviews, questionnaires and 'discussions in the press'; the questionnaire method is the most scientific and the most revealing.After making some remarks about the 'Weltanschauung' of Hungarian youth the author proceeds, under the title of 'Atheism and Belief' to analyse three enquiries which have been made. Marxist sociology of religion set out first to make out a 'balance sheet' of the Hungarian situation in the sphere of religious convictions; these enquiries prove that a simple compilation of statistics relating to the state of things is no longer sufficient and that in the future socio-religious studies must be comparative and analytical. These three enquiries took place in six high schools, in a Faculty of Agriculture and in seven colleges: the results obtained in each one of these establishments show a tendency which is perhaps general and representative of all students and pupils, but this remains to be proved. The comparative table gives the following statistical results: 11.6% of all the students questioned (about 2000) are believers, 47.7% are non-believers and 40.7% undecided. The author also gives a brief summary of the 'discussion in the press' concerning the materialism of Hungarian students. His conclusions are provisional; in order to illustrate and interpret a socio-religious phenomenon (attitude towards belief and atheism) Marxist sociology must maintain scientific rigeur. |
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| ISSN: | 1461-7404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/003776866801500404 |