Challenges of Qualitative Methodology in the Study of the Religious Life of Roma (On the Example of the Protestantization of Roma in Southeastern Serbia)

Todorovič, Dragan (2013) Challenges of Qualitative Methodology in the Study of the Religious Life of Roma (On the Example of the Protestantization of Roma in Southeastern Serbia). In: Социология религии в обществе позднего модерна. Белгородский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, Belgrade, pp. 197-206. ISBN 978-5-9571-0782-8

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Abstract

Previous research into the religious life of Roma in Serbia has mostly been based on questionnaires and surveys of sociologists of religion on their religious (current connection to religion and church) and confessional (belonging to a religion) self-identification, on the ritual celebration of two religious ethnic holidays: Vlasuljica (January 14, St. Basil) and Đurđevdan (May 6, St. George), on the relationship between the religious majority and the Romani religious minority and religious discrimination against Roma, as well as on the influence of ethnic religious factors onthe social distance towards the Romani people. Researchers have not, however, engaged in more complex understanding of the Romani religious culture and nuanced systematization of the manner in which believers interpret their own religious experience in the context of their natural surroundings. Particularly in the case of more recent phenomena in the Serbian religious market, such as the conversion of Roma to small religious communities and the way in which this process has been unfolding: missionary activity (evangelization), conversion, that is, proselytism (drawing believers). The paper describes a substantial research effort to detect Roma as a religious confessional reservoir of Protestantization and the ways in which qualitative methodology is used to study the factors of the Romani association with Adventists, Baptists, Pentecostals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses,the most numerous and agile representatives of the “third” branch of Christianity in southeastern Serbia.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Материалы Третьей Международной научной конференции 13 сентября 2013 г.= Materials of the Third International Scientific Conference September 13, 2013 This is prepared as part of the project Sustainability of the Identity of Serbs and National Minorities in the Border Municipalities of East and Southeast Serbia (179013), carried out at the University of Niš – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Roma, religious life of Roma, Protestantization of Roma, southeastern Serbia,qualitative methodology.
Subjects:	B Mission Theology/Theory > Identity Issues B Mission Theology/Theory > Research Methodology B Mission Theology/Theory > Theology of Revival and Renewal H Social Sciences and Roma Christianity > Anthropology G Christian Traditions/ Denominations > Other G Christian Traditions/ Denominations > Pentecostal
Divisions:	Serbia
Depositing User:	Users 5 not found.
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2019 14:30
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2019 14:30
URI:	https://r.ceeamsprints.brunner.at/id/eprint/121

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