Religious Identity Status and Readiness for Interreligious Dialogue in Youth. Developmental Analysis

• Main Authors: Rydz Elżbieta, Wieradzka-Pilarczyk Anna
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-12-01
• Series: Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration
• Subjects: religious identity; interreligious dialogue; youth
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/pepsi-2017-0003

The aim of the article is to show statuses of religious identity in Polish Catholic adolescents. The distinguished statuses result from intensive consolidation processes which are characteristic of this age. Integration of religious identity has an effect on potential openness versus reluctance to interreligious dialogue. The study was conducted on 60 participants at the ages of 18 to 29 using the Scale of Religious Identity by Wieradzka-Pilarczyk (2015) and Centrality of Religiosity Scale Z-15 by S. Huber (2004). Three statuses of religious identity with different developmental possibilities of entering into interreligious dialogue were distinguished.