Paper short abstract:

This paper examines religious values in the contemporary Bulgarian society as intangible cultural heritage. The study is based on anthropological perspective and uses mainly qualitative methods.

Paper long abstract:

This paper examines religious values in the contemporary Bulgarian society as intangible cultural heritage. The main task of the paper is to study the crisis of religious values (as a

system of beliefs, moral values, attitudes towards society and people,

religious behavior, and belonging to religious institutions and communities)

and the various strategies of different social groups (clergy, students, and

laity) to overcome it. The study is based on anthropological perspective and uses mainly qualitative

methods - interviews with clergymen of Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish

and Muslim denomination (priests, ministers, rabbis, and imams), laity

(members of religious councils, singers etc.). They are compared with results

of a survey with students from religious and secular Bulgarian universities

and faculties. The research had been done in 2014 with the support of

Bulgarian Council of Religious Communities and the "Religions"

Directorate at the Bulgarian Government.