This article is a monograph of the contemporary religiosity perceived through the prism of religious practices of various generations of the rural population in Cierpieta in the Kurpie region. The text is written on the basis of material collected by the authoress during the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in this village. The article describes a change of a religious traditions and practices. The authoress discusses the increasing role of priests and Church in the means of adopting new practices and making them popular among parishioners. The influence of globalization on perceiving religiosity and the spread of the phenomenon of so-called popular religiosity is being widely discussed as well.
The object of this research is the relationship of religiosity and Big Five personality traits. Religiosity has been defined as a three-way property (spiritual, intellectual and physical), and for the measurement of religiosity a questionnaire was constructed containing 4 bipolar scales: Dualism, Magical Religiosity, Intellectual Openness and Ritualism. The study group consisted of 260 Polish students of Warsaw universities. Correlation and group comparison were used for the analysis. Groups were distinguished on the basis of the results obtained on a single religiosity scale or the configuration of two scales (religious types). Theists showed the highest neuroticism. People with high magical religiosity, open-minded, non-practicing religion and atheists were the most open to experience. The most agreeable were recipients adopting a dualistic ontology (theistic or magical belief), particularly if they were practicing religion and had a closed-mind. The highest conscientiousness had ritualists, agnostics (compared to the atheists), and the closed magical type (high magical religiosity and a closed-mind structure). Extraversion showed no relationship with any of the religiosity scale – only agnostics showed higher level of this trait at the tendency level in comparison with the atheists.
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