Abstract
The present article analyses representations, values and practices relating to religious identities among the populations of the Azores islands and Madeira, establishing certain comparisons with a similar study undertaken in mainland Portugal. We begin, taking an overall view of religious positions, with a scrutiny of socio-demographic variables such as gender, level of education and socio-professional situation together with a series of other indicators that constitute the believer’s profile: parental transmission, fulfilling of religious precepts, factors leading to distancing or approximation, daily interchanges, practices of prayer, participation in services, configuration of beliefs, attitudes and values. Roughly 90% of residents living on the islands consider themselves Catholics. It is precisely on this believing population that we subsequently focus, taking as a starting point a graduated typological classification according to practice: Catholics that are nominally so, occasional, irregular, regular, practising and militant.
Original language | Portuguese |
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Pages (from-to) | 207-231 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Didaskalia |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Azores
- Madeira
- Identities
- Religious values and practices