Fire Down Below

Our study deals with the question of whether the structure and nature of Islamic religiosity differs significantly from the religiosity of adherents of the three major Christian confessions. Four religious culturol settings - a Bosnian Muslim one, a Slovenian Catholic one, a Serbian Orthodox one and an American Protestant one - are compared on the basis of a variety of measures of religiosity, resulting from a survey carried out on large student samples in 2005. Allthough certain cultural peculiarities of the Muslim group are noticeable, these peculiarities do not suffice to characterize Islamic religiosity as significantly structurally different as compared to the three Christian groups. On the other hand, some interesting differences appeared in the comparison of the two most intensively religious groups: the American Protestants and the Bosnian Muslims.