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Faith in Development: Mixed-Method Studies on Worldviews and Religious Styles
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Abstract 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... view more
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 (USA) 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.... view less
Keywords
religion; spirituality; religiousness; faith; Weltanschauung; identity; biography; atheism; United States of America; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Sociology of Religion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
393 p.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839471234
ISBN
978-3-8394-7123-4
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0