
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/">
  <dc:publisher> MDPI [Commercial Publisher]</dc:publisher>
  <dc:rights>All rights reserved</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2024</dc:date>
  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">Abstract: Religion is a complex construct that defines not only the historical and social identity
of a nation, but also the personal identity of an individual. The attitude towards religion can be
conditioned by tradition, political ideology, true faith, education, etc. In our research, we have
tried to establish the level of religiousness of the female students of teacher education faculties in
Serbia, belonging to the Orthodox Christianity as the dominant confession in Serbia. We examined
their attitudes towards some of the moral challenges encountered by believers, including abortion,
prostitution, same-sex marriages, the use of cannabis, and euthanasia. Using a snowball nondiscriminative
online sample of 336 female Orthodox students, we found that the students assessed
themselves as above-average religious and that out of three dimensions of religiousness measured in
the questionnaire, the lowest scores were recorded for the dimension of the effect of faith on their
behavior. The study showed that the level of religiousness is a good predictor of attitudes towards
abortion, prostitution, and same-sex marriages, but not towards the use of cannabis. Moreover,
religiousness and attitudes towards prostitution are positively correlated, which is directly opposite
to religious teachings. This is why a question arises as to whether we can speak about a return to
faith or merely a return to the traditional model of manifesting the religious as an antipode to the
secular organization in force until 1989. The results of our research point to the latter conclusion.
</dc:description>
  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/7/809</dc:description>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5344-5770">Jelena R., Petrović</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2141-8698">Šuvaković, Uroš V.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator id="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1899-4424">Nikolić, Ivko A.</dc:creator>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Keywords: Orthodox Christianity; religious tradition; Serbia; religious rites; spirituality; postsocialist transition</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xml:lang="eng">The Relationship between the Level of Religiousness of the Christian Orthodox Female Students of Teachers’ Education Faculties in Serbia and Their Attitudes towards Orthodox-Moral Issues</dc:title>
  <dc:identifier>https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:34319</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.3390/rel15070809</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>ISSN: 2077-1444</dc:identifier>
  <dc:source>Religions </dc:source>
  <dc:source>vol. 15</dc:source>
  <dc:source>br. 7</dc:source>
  <dc:source>str. 1-18</dc:source>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
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  <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</dc:type>
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