RELIGIOSITY IN THE STUDENT'S ENVIRONMENT (THE EXAMPLE OF KEMEROVO STATE UNIVERSITY)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the urgent problem of religiosity. The authors explore the concept of «religiosity», identify several groups of its features and justify the use of qualitative and quantitative methods for the study of the concept. The purpose of this paper is to study the criteria of religiosity and to analyze the compliance of modern students with them. After studying some research papers on the subject, the authors underline that there is a problem of differentiation of the external and internal religiosity and describe each of them. Having conducted a questionnaire survey among students of Kemerovo State University, the authors come to the conclusion that modern students have external religiosity, religion has lost its high spirit and mystery for them. The paper states the idea that only a minor part of the respondents may be considered as truly religious or having inner religiosity people since their spiritual lives and behaviour fit the criteria of «religiosity». For the rest of the respondents the phenomenon of religiosity is gradually and unconsciously replaced by the phenomenon of pseudoreligiosity.

Keywords

• religiosity (internal and external)
• criteria of religiosity
• qualitative methods
• quantitative methods
• pseudoreligiousity