Catholic religiosity in a modern Russian city: an attempt of the text data semantic analysis
Introduction. This article considers a study of Catholic religiosity in a modern Russian city. The relevance of such a study is determined by the need of understanding of the religious minorities daily life in the process of urban life social transformation in modern Russia. Content. This article attempts to determine the specificity of Catholic religiosity using a se-mantic procedure for the quantitative formalization of qualitative data, revealing the religious and cultural experience of Catholic respondents in the post-soviet context. Methodologically, the article based on the experience of the Italian sociological tradition for the study of religion, in particular, on the works of leading researcher of the current study field Roberto Cipriani. The empirical basis of the article is presented by the field materials collected in the period between December 2017 and October 2018. Semantic analysis of text data obtained in the course of the field work is demonstrated using the example of St. Petersburg. Conclusion. The distribution of empirical data is grouped around two central metacategories: religion and religiosity. At the same time, a strong institution-oriented form of discourse is opposed to weak ties between people - low involvement of the individual in the daily community’s life and a weakly expressed religiosity. Empirical materials of Catholic communities in Russia allow us to de-tect the coexistence (in the terms of R. Cipriani) of church-oriented, church-reflective and diffuse models of religiosity. Based on the analyzed material, the author concludes that a weakly expressed religiosity in its relation to the institutional form of religion may be one of the sources of the diffused religion of modern Russian society in its extended perspective