Religion and spirituality: Unfuzzying the fuzzy.
Abstrak
The present study attempts to measure how individuals define the terms religiousness and spirituality, to measure how individuals define their own religiousness and spirituality, and to examine whether these definitions are associated with different demographic, religio/spiritual, and psychosocial variables. The complete sample of 346 individuals was composed of 11 groups of participants drawn from a wide range of religious backgrounds. Analyses were conducted to compare participants' self-rated religiousness and spirituality, to correlate self-rated religiousness and spirituality with the predictor variables, and to use the predictor variables to distinguish between participants who described themselves as spiritual and religious from those who identified themselves as 'spiritual but not religious. A content analysis of participants' definitions of religiousness and spirituality was also performed. The results suggest several points of convergence and divergence between the constructs religiousness and spirituality. The theoretical, empirical, and practical implications of these results for the scientific study of religion are discussed.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (9)
B. Zinnbauer
K. Pargament
B. Cole
Mark S. Rye
E. Butter
Timothy G. Belavich
Kathleen M. Hipp
A. Scott
J. Kadar
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 1997
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 1525×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.2307/1387689
- Akses
- Open Access ✓