Inconsistency of Beliefs in the Existence of Heaven and Afterlife
Gallup data for a random sample of adult Americans interviewed in 1968 are examined to learn the religious, social class, and other characteristics of persons who believe in both heaven and afterlife, in neither, and in one but not the other. Particular attention is paid to people who believe in hea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1980
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Review of religious research
Year: 1980, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-183 |
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| Summary: | Gallup data for a random sample of adult Americans interviewed in 1968 are examined to learn the religious, social class, and other characteristics of persons who believe in both heaven and afterlife, in neither, and in one but not the other. Particular attention is paid to people who believe in heaven but not afterlife, an apparent contradiction in a Christian context. Multiple discriminant function analysis and crosstabular analysis are used to learn which characteristics distinguish each group from the others. The overall conclusion is that social scientists will come to fully comprehend the meaning of religious beliefs--including those that appear to be inconsistent--only if they ask people to describe their beliefs in their own words. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3509882 |