Some UUs Are More U than U: Theological Self-Descriptors Chosen by Unitarian Universalists
As part of a longer survey, Unitarian Universalists (N=206) selected from a list of theological labels those they would use to describe their own religious beliefs. Factor analysis revealed three factors: The first had strong loadings for terms referring to unitary and primarily Western views of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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Review of religious research
Year: 2005, Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 235-242 |
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| Summary: | As part of a longer survey, Unitarian Universalists (N=206) selected from a list of theological labels those they would use to describe their own religious beliefs. Factor analysis revealed three factors: The first had strong loadings for terms referring to unitary and primarily Western views of the Divine. The second included terms referring to Neopagan or New Age theologies. The third corresponded most closely to humanism. The term Universalist loaded strongly onto the first factor, Unitarian Universalist strongly onto the second factor, and Unitarian moderately onto the first and third factors. Respondents whose initial membership was prior to or followed the 1961 merger of the Unitarian and Universalist traditions in America differed on their identification with the terms Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3512553 |