Three Moscow parishes. Main socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of the large parish communities members. Research Grant: PSTGU

Duration of the project: 2011

About the project
The survey was conducted on 14.10.2011 in three large Moscow churches, distinctive (by expert evaluations) for their experienced clergy and strong parish communities.

The results of the survey are presented in the book “Three Moscow parishes. Main socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of the large parish communities members.”

Sample: 1072 parishioners took part in the survey. In the report we discuss the subsample of 18 years and older (1082 parishioners). As the sample over 18 years is regulary used in national surveys, we can compare our results with all-russian survey data.

The book “Three Moscow parishes. Main socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of the large parishes communities members” describes main findings of the study. In this study representatives of the Orthodox parish community are compared with the average Russians on the main social indicators and value scales.

Publications

Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2012. "Orthodox parish community: spatial localization and formation factors." IV Russian Congress of Sociology "Sociology in the system of scientific management of society". 2-4 February 2012. Moscow. Moscow: IS RAS, 748-749.

Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2012. "The community of the Orthodox parish church: space, place, and the formative factors of the parish community with Moscow as an example." Vestnik PSTGU. Series I: Theology, 3 (41): 57-67.

Zabaev Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2012. "Social support networks in Orthodox church community. Based on a survey of 3 large Moscow parishes." VI theoretical and practical conference "Contemporary sociology for contemporary Russia": Collection of articles in memoriam of the first Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at NRU HSE, A.O. Kryshtanovsky. 1-3 February 2012. Moscow. Moscow: NRU HSE, 598-608.

Zabaev Ivan, Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena. 2012. Three Moscow parishes: main socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of the large parish communities members. Moscow: PSTGU (Reissued in 2016).

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