Studia Academica Slovaca 51/2022 Výber manželského partnera v nábožensky zmiešanej obci na Slovensku Michal Uhrin Abstract The Selection of Spouse in a Religiously Diverse Town in Slovakia The topic of the selection of spouses has been reflected in Slovak ethnology for a long time According to a number of authors, members of a certain denomination preferred marrying within their own religious affiliation An individual may prefer marrying someone of another denomination, but, in additional to personal preferences, this decision is influenced by the preferences of the parents and relatives as well as by social norms that are widely accepted in the given community The article presents the outcomes of the long-running ethnographic research in western Slovakia, in the region of the White Carpathian Mountains The article introduces the characteristics of the cultural and social aspects of preferences in the selection of the future spouse in a specific location so that these would be reflected in the respondents’ words The statements cover the period from the 1920s until the present day An analysis of ethnographic data points to the importance of religious belief and the affiliation to a certain denominational community as one of the major factors in the process of selecting a spouse Keywords: preferences in the selection of a spouse, homogamy, religion, family and relatives, cross-denominational relationships Úvod Výber manželského partnera predstavuje jeden z najdơležitejších momentov v živote človeka Táto otázka však nie je zaujímavá len pre autorov literárnych diel, ale aj pre vedcov naprieč rozmanitými od95