Проблемът за „вероизповеданието" в българската етностатистика в периода 1881—2001 г.
The Problem of “Religion” in Bulgarian Ethno-Statistics in the Period Between 1881 and 2001

Summary/Abstract: In ethnographic and demographic literature to date there is no comprehensive and detailed presentation, in terms of quantity and quality, of the categories, assigned by the most significant indicators/features of the ethnic identification of the different communities: “mother tongue/vernacular”, “religion”, “nation/nationality”, etc. The challenging and the analysis of the officially formulated ethno-statistical categories has been an approach, ethnological in its character, to the results of the census of the population and the state-sanctioned demographic interpretations. After the problem of “the mother tongue” was developed in the preceding number of the Bulgarska etnologia [Bulgarian Ethnology] journal, the observations in this article are focused on the feature “religion” in the official results of the different population censuses in the period between 1881 and 2001. Analyses point to the existence of this feature in our time, too, as a major factor in the borderline system between the individual groups and communities within the frameworks of the country. The tables drafted can be used in varied other investigations in future.

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