Distinguishing between Spirituality and Religion: Accessing the Worldview Correlates of 13- to 15-year-old Students in England and Wales
Drawing on the response of 2,728 young people between the ages of 13 and 15 years attending schools in England and Wales who completed the Young People’s Values Survey, this study employed discriminant function analysis to explore whether there were specific combinations of attitudes and values that...
| Published in: | Research in the social scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 27, Pages: 43-67 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious sociology
B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft B Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft & Religionswissenschaft |
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| Summary: | Drawing on the response of 2,728 young people between the ages of 13 and 15 years attending schools in England and Wales who completed the Young People’s Values Survey, this study employed discriminant function analysis to explore whether there were specific combinations of attitudes and values that might help to clarify how young people interpret and apply the notions of spirituality and religiosity and that could distinguish the worldview of the young people who describe themselves as religious but not spiritual (purely religious) from the worldview of the young people who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious (purely spiritual). The two clusters of items identified by discriminant function analysis characterized the understanding of the purely religious sub-group as concerned with conventional religious beliefs and practices, and with ideas about God, Jesus, church and prayer; and characterized the understanding of the purely spiritual sub-group as concerned with human rights and human equality across the sexes, races and sexual orientations, and with a range of eclectic beliefs about spiritual presences and spiritual forces. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004322035_004 |