{"id":160024,"date":"2025-07-25T15:33:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/?p=160024"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:54:30","slug":"dualistic-and-traditional-religious-views-and-their-effect-on-the-social-fabric-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bel.azbuki.bg\/en\/uncategorized\/dualistic-and-traditional-religious-views-and-their-effect-on-the-social-fabric-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Dualistic and Traditional Religious Views and their Effect on the Social Fabric in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Martin Ivanov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Bulgarian Academy of Science<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02S-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02S-13<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract. <\/strong>The role of religion in modern society and human relations has long been considered increasingly marginal. Surprisingly for scholars, religion and religiosity became even more influential in postmodern times, though in various forms. The paper aims to discuss the social effects of different types of religiosity in Bulgaria, including Newbogomilism, emphasizing dualistic elements of the religious worldviews on social trust and cohesion, proposing a conceptual framework to analyze that. The working hypothesis is that the dualistic worldview has a negative impact on the social integration of Bulgarian society today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Keywords<\/em>: religiosity, spirituality, social cohesion, dualism, neo-bogomilism<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bel.azbuki.bg\/en\/member-login\/\">Log in to read the full text<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Ivanov Bulgarian Academy of Science https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02S-13 Abstract. The role of religion in modern society and human relations has long been considered increasingly marginal. Surprisingly for scholars, religion and religiosity became even more influential in postmodern times, though in various forms. The paper aims to discuss the social effects of different types of religiosity in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":124332423427287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[12527,12585,12582,12584,12583],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dualistic and Traditional Religious Views and their Effect on the Social Fabric in Bulgaria - \u0410\u0437-\u0431\u0443\u043a\u0438<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/azbuki.bg\/uncategorized\/dualistic-and-traditional-religious-views-and-their-effect-on-the-social-fabric-in-bulgaria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dualistic and Traditional Religious Views and their Effect on the Social Fabric in Bulgaria - \u0410\u0437-\u0431\u0443\u043a\u0438\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Martin Ivanov Bulgarian Academy of Science https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53656\/phil2025-02S-13 Abstract. 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