Faith in Development: Mixed-Method Studies on Worldviews and Religious Styles (BiUP General) - Softcover

Streib; Heinz|Hood Jr.; Ralph W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837671232 ISBN 13: 9783837671230

Publisher: Bielefeld University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigation of faith development, this study presents the changes of worldview and meaning-making that people associate with their religious, spiritual, agnostic and atheist identifications. For almost two decades, research teams in Chattanooga (U.S.A.) and Bielefeld (Germany) have invited and re-invited hundreds of people to participate in a personal interview and to answer an extensive questionnaire in order to better understand the reasons and the consequences of their continuity or discontinuity in religious, spiritual, or non-theistic faith.

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About the Author

Heinz Streib is a senior professor at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, and conducts research in the psychology of religion. He established and directs the Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. His research focuses on biographical-reconstructive and psychometric assessment of religious change and development over the lifespan, deconversion, fundamentalism, xenophobia and the semantics of spirituality. Ralph W. Hood Jr. is a professor of psychology, LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Association Distinguished Professor. He is a past president of the Division 36 of the American Psychological Association and a recipient of its William James award for research in the psychology of religion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bielefeld University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837671232
• ISBN 13: 9783837671230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380