Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Doubts: Content, Connections, and Complexity of Thinking
Sixty-eight university students were interviewed about their own and others' per- ceived religious doubts. These young adults included 33 high and 35 low religious fundamentalists, drawn from a larger survey study of 348 students. Content analyses of self-reported religious doubts suggested tha...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
1996
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 1996, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 201-220 |
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| Summary: | Sixty-eight university students were interviewed about their own and others' per- ceived religious doubts. These young adults included 33 high and 35 low religious fundamentalists, drawn from a larger survey study of 348 students. Content analyses of self-reported religious doubts suggested that low fundamentalists were more likely to question the underpinnings of religion, while high fundamentalists' doubts seemed to focus on concerns that others are not living up to religious ideals or that adjustments should be made within the church, rather than doubts about God or religion per se. Also, low fundamentalists were more likely to report that their doubt began at an earlier age, that they had not yet resolved their doubt, and that their religious doubts had been caused by thinking about relevant issues. As expected, religious doubting was strongly correlated negatively with measures of religious fundamentalism, Christian orthodoxy, and right-wing authoritarianism, and to a lesser extent, dogma- tism. Finally, there was qualified support for previous findings that those who reported greater religious doubt tended to think in more integratively complex ways about such doubts, and about existential material generally. Overall, it is suggested that these findings paint a picture of low fundamentalists as more open, complex, and critical processors of information related to religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1207/s15327582ijpr0603_7 |