Utjecaj molitve na vjerničko ponašanje i moralno vrednovanje pripadnika Maloga tečaja– Kursilja
The Influence of Prayer on Religious Behaviour and Moral Evaluation of the Members of the Cursillo Movement

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of the paper the author discusses the phenomenon of new lay ecclesiastical movements, their genesis, fundamental characteristics and beginnings of activity in the world and Croatia. Special attention is given to the contemporary international lay Catholic Cursillo movement, which spread in Croatia in the late 1960s. In the second part of the paper, based on a poll of members of seven contemporary ecclesiastical movements among which there were also 74 members of the Cursillo movement, some results of the Cursillo members' poll have been specially analysed. In other words, the influence of personal prayer on their actual religious life, some fundamental moral evaluations, attitudes and religious behaviour: relationship to those who are not believers, to people who have wronged them, their attitudes towards intentional termination of pregnancy, thoughts on contraception, adultery and infidelity, the insolubility of marriage and premarital sexual relations. Prayer has been taken as an independent variable because all contemporary ecclesiastical movements, including the members of the Cursillo movement, have been recognised as a new type of (post)modern religiosity, as renovatory and prayer-movements in the Church. The results obtained show that there is a significant correlation between the frequency of the examinees' individual prayers and their actual religious behaviour, moral evaluation and attitudes.

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