Reciprocity between religious movements of Lithuanian diaspora and religious institutions in the post-secular English society

This article investigates the reciprocity between religious movements of Lithuanian diaspora and religious institutions in the post-secular English society. The research focuses on two Christian religious movements of Lithuanian immigrants (The Roman Catholic Church of St. Casimir, Lithuanian Church Parish and the Lithuanian Christian Church) in London, which came to the UK after the accession of the new EU Member States in 2004. This paper has two related tasks: (1) to examine the role of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Casimir and the Lithuanian Christian Church in socialization and global integration processes in the life of Lithuanian diaspora; (2) to describe the perception of religious identity of the new wave Lithuanian diaspora in England. To reach this goal a survey of fifty respondents was undertaken, using stratified random sampling. The main source of this work derives from ethnographic material gathered in the UK and Lithuania in 2017 according to the project Cultural and Religious Identity of Lithuanians in England (Reg. No. SA-1) co-funded by the Council for the Protection of Ethnic Culture. The ethnographic material was gathered using classical fieldwork methods (observation, the questionnaire form, discussions, structured and semi-structured interviews), as well as the analysis of Lithuanian diaspora’s religious activity in two Christian communities’ websites. The research surveyed fifty persons from different social groupsKultūrų studijų katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta