Conceptualization of Quest: A Critical Rejoinder to Batson
Batson's ambitious series of empirical studies purporting to identify a neglected dimension of religiosity ("quest") and its superiority to intrinsic religiosity is criticized on a purely conceptual basis. The quest dimension, derived from factor scores, is criticized especially insof...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
1985
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Review of religious research
Year: 1985, Volume: 26, Issue: 4, Pages: 391-397 |
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| Summary: | Batson's ambitious series of empirical studies purporting to identify a neglected dimension of religiosity ("quest") and its superiority to intrinsic religiosity is criticized on a purely conceptual basis. The quest dimension, derived from factor scores, is criticized especially insofar as it arithmetically negatively weighs orthodoxy on this dimension. Orthodoxy, defined as fundamental faith commitment, entails belief content that cannot be used to correct for assumed belief processes. In addition, operational measures used to comparatively assess intrinsic and quest religiosity confuse content and process measures as well as use evaluatively biased measures of content that make the empirical comparisons between intrinsic and quest religiosity only apparent. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511052 |