Religious Conversion to Catholicism (the Case of Young Muscovites)

Student: Liagushkina Daria

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The aim of this work is to identify the stages of religious conversion to Catholicism in Moscow. The study used the method of grounded theory. Building a theory of religious conversion to Catholicism in Moscow will help to understand the causes of this phenomenon. The empirical object of the study is people who were baptized in the Orthodox Church, but now they are catechized in the Catholic Church or have already passed it and joined the Catholic Church in Moscow. For research it is important that informants were initially baptized in the Orthodox Church, as this is the most typical case for Moscow. The result of the research will be the creation of the theory of religious conversion with certain levels and its comparison with other existing theories of religious conversion.

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