Motives for Participating in the Religious Experience

A more or less exhaustive set of reasons for participating in religious activities was identified by respondents from a wide variety of religious denominations. These reasons were cast into a standard form and presented as a Q-sort to 100 undergraduates who rated each reason's "importance...

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VerfasserInnen: Gorlow, Leon (VerfasserIn) ; Schroeder, Harold E. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [1968]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 1968, Band: 7, Heft: 2, Seiten: 241-251
weitere Schlagwörter:B Religious experience philosophy
B Statistical variance
B Demography
B Factor analysis
B Morality
B Liberal arts education
B Sharing
B Catholicism
B Religious Freedom
B Q sort
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Zusammenfassung:A more or less exhaustive set of reasons for participating in religious activities was identified by respondents from a wide variety of religious denominations. These reasons were cast into a standard form and presented as a Q-sort to 100 undergraduates who rated each reason's "importance to me." A principal components inverse factor analysis yielded seven interpretable clusters of people (types): the humble servants of God; the self-improvers; the family guidance seekers; the moralists; the God-seekers; the socially-oriented servants of God; the religious eggheads. These clusters correspond to dimensions found in other studies. Degree of membership in clusters related meaningfully to personal, social and demographic variables.
ISSN:1468-5906
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/1384632