摘要：Within the context of a survey on Catholic practices and customs in a Belgian city (Charleroi), it has been noted that among Sunday churchgoers, the proportion of those receiving communion is considerably higher than was the case in a similar survey carried out forty years before (89.6% as against 27.3%). This significant difference emphasises the metamorphoses of religiosity. Institutional framework, the interpretation of the dogma, and the meaning of church attendance are profoundly transformed and radically reconstructed. Receiving communion today is the norm for those who go to mass, whereas yesterday, given the low rate of communion and its variation across categories, the evidence was elsewhere, i.e. in a community’s experience. An emergent intelligibility of modernity may be noted, where the mechanisms of meaning and religiosity achieve their full socialisation. They become individual in a society which only recognises the individual.
