Religiooni uurimisest ilmalikus ühiskonnas
On Studying Religion in Secular Society

Summary/Abstract: The article critically analyzes “vicarious Christianity”, Lea Altnurme’s adaption of Grace Davie’s “vicarious religion”, for Estonian context. The article uses data from recent qualitative fieldwork to argue that descriptive statistics, the idea “vicarious Christianity” is based on, is mostly statistical noise. While agreeing that one can find attitudes similar to Davie’s “vicarious religion”, the article argues that the methods for studying religion in a predominantly secular society, in the backdrop of changing religious landscape, should move towards asking open questions and analysing qualitative data. Relying on methods directed towards studying only institutional religion is not sufficient.

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