Life with God: Some Variations of Religious Experience in a Modern City

The religious experience of Christians was viewed as an interpersonal relationship between believers and God. Six aspects of that relationship appeared as orthogonal factors in responses obtained from a random sample of adults in metropolitan Detroit. All six were found in three sub-samples: black P...

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1. VerfasserIn: Swanson, Guy Edwin 1922-1995 (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [1971]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Jahr: 1971, Band: 10, Heft: 3, Seiten: 169-199
weitere Schlagwörter:B Social classes
B Social evolution
B Afterlife
B Death
B Protestantism
B Catholicism
B Prayer
B Social beliefs
B White people
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Zusammenfassung:The religious experience of Christians was viewed as an interpersonal relationship between believers and God. Six aspects of that relationship appeared as orthogonal factors in responses obtained from a random sample of adults in metropolitan Detroit. All six were found in three sub-samples: black Protestants, white Protestants, and white Roman Catholics. Compensatory and evolutionary theories of religious experience were found to be of little use in explaining the variance of respondents' scores on these factors. Hypotheses derived from a sociological perspective on religious experience showed greater power in explaining that variance.
ISSN:1468-5906
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/1384478