COBWEBS IN PEWS – SOME REMARKS ON THE RELIGION, IDENTITY, AND SPACE IN GEMER REGION IN CENTRAL SLOVAKIA
Journal Title: FOLIA GEOGRAPHICA - Year 2010, Vol 50, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper analyzes changes of religious identity, religious life in formerly one of the most intellectually and culturally flourishing regions in Slovakia – Gemer. This region has been one of the most prosperous regions in the Hungarian Empire, mostly thanks to mining tradition, but now has become one of the poorest regions in Slovakia. From the cultural point of view, this region with strong Lutheran tradition in its Slovak part has undergone many changes in religious identity in past 50 years. We attempt to analyze changes in religious identity especially in the region of Western part of Gemer between towns Hnúšťa and Revúca with respect to changes in religious structure of the population, number of believers according to church statistics, intensity of religious services in communities and age structure of believers. Generally, the processes in communities are similar: aging of adherents, irregular worship services, poor condition of church building, secular usage of parsonages and former church school buildings, or in worse situations, such buildings are abandoned and devastated.
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Juraj MAJO
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