Svetlana Karassyova

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Belarusian State University

The article provides an analysis of certain results of a study of religiosity among Belarusians. The study is based on a multidimensional model and cross-confessional approach. The study focuses on the religious part of the Belarus population and involved representatives of almost twenty denominations. Of all the indicators of the multidimensional...

The paper deals with some results of testing a multi-dimensional model of religiosity applied in a cross-confessional questionnaire within the framework of an on-going all-republican research. The model was designed in Belarus in 2012 as a means for studying multiconfessional environments and is aimed at discovering universal types of religiosity....

Religiosity in Belarus, one of the post- Soviet republics, is determined today by a strong pre- revolutionary (1917) influence of the Orthodox tradition (successor of the Byzantine Christianity); the remaining of directive atheism of the Soviet period; the rapid post- Soviet revival of religiosity; the domination of forms, ethnocultural religiosity...

In order to get the full vision of the background and perspective of possible introduction of the course on religion into syllabi, the Centre for Research in Religious Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Belarusian State University initiated in 2011 a complex study of the problem based on the combination of quantitative and...