Development in Religious and Non-Religious Biographies from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

How do people perceive their own religious, spiritual or atheist biography? This is a question that our research team has been focusing on for nearly two decades. Our developmental perspective critically, but constructively relates to Fowler’s (1981) Faith Development Theory, as described in Streib’...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: The Cultural Bias of Religiosity: Concepts, Measurements, and Results from Non-Western Perspectives, edited by Sarah Demmrich and Ulrich Riegel
Authors: Bullik, Ramona (Author) ; Özişik, Sakin (Author) ; Steppacher, Anika (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Journal of empirical theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-82
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Biography / Religion / Culture
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B biographical study
B Qualitative Analysis
B faith development research
B religious styles
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Summary:How do people perceive their own religious, spiritual or atheist biography? This is a question that our research team has been focusing on for nearly two decades. Our developmental perspective critically, but constructively relates to Fowler’s (1981) Faith Development Theory, as described in Streib’s (2001) approach of religious styles, paying tribute to the fact that development is not, in most cases, a linear upward process. By combining Fowler’s structural evaluation method with approaches to content analyses, this paper will show the merit of these qualitative methods when looking at (religious) development in different surroundings. For that purpose, we present case studies with different cultural backgrounds. Their different trajectories and possible commonalities will be shown on a structural as well as on a content level. This approach enables us to reconstruct movement within the religious field and will show how this is displayed on a subjective, biographical level.
ISSN:1570-9256
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of empirical theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341398