Identidades religiosas nas regiões autónomas

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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 languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)207-231
Number of pages25
JournalDidaskalia
Volume43
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Keywords

  • Azores
  • Madeira
  • Identities
  • Religious values and practices

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