Internal Conflict Associated with Disaffiliation from the Roman Catholic Church

IF 1.4 0 RELIGION
Ulrich Riegel, M. Jäckel, T. Faix
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Abstract

In modern Western societies, disaffiliation frequently occurs within the field of religion. To date, many studies have analysed what motivates people to leave religious institutions. However, whether they face internal conflicts during this process has not been intensely studied. Based on Festinger’s concept of cognitive dissonance, this paper re-analyses 27 interviews of persons who left the Catholic Church in the diocese of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. In 12 out of 27 interviews, such internal conflicts could be reconstructed, indicating that leaving religious institutions is not always an easy process. These conflicts are related to four characteristic core issues evoking dissonant emotions, namely belonging, the social environment, belief, and identity. The analysis also illustrates that disaffiliation not only solves such internal conflicts but sometimes causes new ones. More research is needed to fully understand people’s inner struggles when disaffiliating from religious institutions.
与罗马天主教会分裂相关的内部冲突
在现代西方社会,宗教领域内经常发生脱离宗教的现象。迄今为止,许多研究都分析了促使人们离开宗教机构的原因。然而,他们在这一过程中是否会面临内部冲突却没有得到深入的研究。基于费斯廷格的认知失调概念,本文重新分析了北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚州埃森教区27名离开天主教会的人的访谈。在27个采访中,有12个可以重建这种内部冲突,这表明离开宗教机构并不总是一个容易的过程。这些冲突与引起不和谐情绪的四个特征核心问题有关,即归属、社会环境、信仰和身份。分析还表明,脱离党派不仅能解决这些内部矛盾,有时还会引发新的矛盾。需要更多的研究来充分了解人们在脱离宗教机构时的内心挣扎。
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