Contemporary movements and relegion among Macedonian Albanians

Type Journal Article - ID EST
Title Contemporary movements and relegion among Macedonian Albanians
Author(s)
Volume 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2008
Page numbers 169-178
URL http://www.jurn.org/ejournal/ID_EST_-_Numri_i_pare.pdf#page=169
Abstract
This article deals with the changes in the Albanian community after 1991 as regards religion, people, and their
belief and religious institutions. All the movements, proofs on the spot, show a tendency in increase not only
as regards to the believers but also to the religious institutions to take in as much as possible space in what we
call a secular part of the society, but also in the secular part of the social life of people. Reasons of these new
movements can be as the product of the liberal democracy but also as a consequence of the Macedonian social
crises. All the indicators show that the building of the mosques and churches is in progress. And here are
some redundancies. The empirical researches are indicators that the religiousness as regards Albanians whose
religion is Islam has a big influence in determining their identity, twice bigger than it is with Macedonians
who are Orthodox and Christians. But there are two issues and will be even more present and they start off the
questions being debated in the intellectual spectrum; that will Albanians of Macedonia be more religious than
Albanians in the Republic of Albania and the Republic of Kosova or Islam should get Europianized in the
postmodernism.

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