The purpose of this paper was to interpret the usage of symbols in popular religion based on contemporary symbolic interactionism using the reference framework of the symbolic community. The strength of the chosen symbolic interactionist approach is primarily in the research of the role of different dimensions of the religious in understanding the meaning of popular religion in the symbolic community. The qualitative approach and the method of in-depth semi-structured interviews were employed in the research, which responded to the main goal of the research on the meanings the participants of the popular religion attach to the symbolic interactions. A deliberate sample was used for the selection of participants in the popular forms of celebrating the days of Our Lady of Vrpolje, Our Lady of Sinj, and Our Lady of Karavaj as well as the Guardians of Christ’s grave in Vodice, Croatia. According to the results, popular religion, transmitted through visible signs, places believers in a position of physical contact with the supernatural world within a symbolic environment. To achieve this, popular religion displays a need for sacred images, words, sounds, signs, movements, smells. Believers in popular religion seek to establish as simple, intimate, and direct relationship with a deity as possible. The respondents’ answers confirm that the experiential dimension of religiosity is lived primarily on a personal level that precedes the social dimension. For the participants, the religious community has a symbolic character in terms of creating strong bonds between members of society or a social group, especially within the symbolic meaning of a feast day.

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根据宗教的维度在民间宗教中的符号互动：定性研究

本文的目的是使用符号社区的参考框架，基于当代符号互动主义来解释通俗宗教中符号的用法。选择的符号互动主义方法的优势主要在于研究宗教的不同维度在理解符号社区中普遍宗教的意义方面的作用。本研究采用定性方法和深度半结构式访谈的方法，这回应了研究的主要目标，即大众宗教参与者对符号互动的意义。精心挑选了一些样本，以选择庆祝弗波杰圣母，辛吉圣母，以及卡拉瓦吉的圣母，以及克罗地亚伏迪斯的基督坟墓守护者。根据结果​​，通过可见标志传播的大众宗教使信徒处于象征环境内与超自然世界的身体接触的位置。为了实现这一目标，流行的宗教表现出对神圣图像，单词，声音，符号，动作，气味的需求。流行宗教的信徒寻求与神建立尽可能简单，亲密和直接的关系。受访者的回答证实，宗教的体验维度主要存在于社会层面之前的个人层面。对于参与者而言，宗教团体具有象征意义，可以在社会成员或社会团体之间建立牢固的纽带，