Influence of New Religious Minorities on the Development of a New Multicultural Identity (the Latvian and Ukrainian cases) Cover Image

Reliģisko minoritāšu ietekme uz jaunas daudzkultūru identitātes veidošanos (Latvijas un Ukrainas piemēri)
Influence of New Religious Minorities on the Development of a New Multicultural Identity (the Latvian and Ukrainian cases)

Author(s): Solveiga Krūmiņa-Koņkova, Nikandrs Gills
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Latvijas Universitātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts

Summary/Abstract: In the present article the authors consider possible developments of the question weather one's belonging to the new religious minority leads to the crisis of his or her national and traditional cultural identity and further to the diffusion of this identity? Authors also analyze how the local cultural traditions are actualized and transformed under one's belonging to the new religious minority. The results let to draw some definite conclusions concerning possible diffusions in the cultural identity of the most respondents.

  • Issue Year: IX/2004
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 189-196
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Latvian