Leader Cults and Secularized Faiths: Religiosity, the Choice of Values and Political Preferences in Hungary
Leader Cults and Secularized Faiths: Religiosity, the Choice of Values and Political Preferences in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: This paper explores the extent to which religiosity entails special choices of values, the ifferences between the values of religious and non-religious people and whether there are significant dissimilarities in theways they relate to politics in Hungary. The results derived from our representative sample have shown the dualnature of the value orientations of people who consider themselves religious. The attitude of religious people ischaracterized by a duality of leader cult and secularised belief. Predominantly religious people hold secularizedvalues, but their personal life worlds reflect an inherited traditionalism concerning their viewpoint on their politicalleader. Consequently, they have a positive attitude towards governmental measures which result in restrictions onconstitutional and parliamentary government, as well as on the Western system of democratic institutions, whileat the same time they are drifting away from their Christian values

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