| Title |
Katalikybės vaidmuo kasdieniame mąstyme apie Europos Sąjungą: Lietuvos atvejis / |
| Translation of Title |
The role of Catholicism in everyday thinking about the European Union: Lithuanian case. |
| Authors |
Garškaitė-Antonowicz, Rosita |
| DOI |
10.15388/vu.thesis.516 |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
212 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Catholicism ; Euroepan Union ; interpretive research ; interviewing |
| Abstract [eng] |
This doctoral dissertation seeks su illuminate the relationship between Catholicism and the popular support for European integration. It emphasises human agency by drawing on insights from practical turns in the sociology of religion and culture as well as social psychology and anthropology. The interdisciplinary theoretical-methodological model enabled focusing on how ordinary people think about the European Union and how they employ Catholic interpretive resources. The empirical data consists of in-depth interviews with 50 Lithuanian Catholics. Firstly, the study shows that the role of religion in everyday thinking is not one-way: Catholic resources were used by informants both to criticise and to express support for the EU. Secondly, it contributes to understanding how ‘religion in action’ works by identifying three distinct types of these resources: narratives, doctrine, and imagination. Thirdly, the research reveals the plurality of active Catholics in Lithuania. Based on the reaction to value change associated with the EU, two ideal types of informants were identified: those who reconcile Catholicism with aspects of late Western modernity (such as the assertion of a universal human rights agenda and secularization) and those who contrast them. The dominant latter type is partly explained by the additional analysis of the Lithuanian bishops’ discourse on European integration. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Vilniaus universitetas. |
| Type |
Doctoral thesis |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2023 |
