FUTURE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH THE CASE OF PRESENT-DAY SLOVAKIA

This article wishes to analyse current trends in the religious landscape of Slovakia, using the tools of conceptualization and diagnostics. It then has the ambition to attempt to delineate a competent response from the side of public theology. The primary question is `To what extent has the religiosity's importance on subsystems of the society declined or increased?' with relation to the phenomena of (1) the second demographic transition, (2) and post-communist transformation, both of which have brought profound changes in value orientations and moral attitudes of today's society. Instead of individual's identity being formed in the process of primary and secondary socialization, it is often deformed, having been influenced by desocialization of family, school or peer environment. The mesospace of a community life has also suffered consequences caused by the loss of community (a closely-knit interpersonal fellowship) and the causally connected modernization processes of the industrial and post-industrial society.