The Study of Religiosity and the School of Bucharest. A Comparative Analysis in Relation to the Current Religiosity Investigation Model

In this study, I identify a possible way of gaining knowledge on the Romanianreligious phenomenon. The scientific approach used for this purpose is thecomparative analysis between two methodologies that differ first of all from the pointof view of their temporal location: the methodology of the School of Bucharest, andthe methodology of the European Values Survey. The study includes issues related tothe actual religious scene: the perspective of the definition and the dimensions ofreligiosity, the relationship between methodological holism and individualismestablished in the research, the relationship between religion and magic. The mainconclusion derives naturally from observing the limits of each approach. It is a plea infavour of gaining knowledge on the religious phenomenon using a different approach.This is not a compromise between the two methodologies included in the analysis, butis first of all adequate for the internal laws characterising the Romanian religiousenvironment.