Motives for Participating in the Religious Experience
A more or less exhaustive set of reasons for participating in religious activities was identified by respondents from a wide variety of religious denominations. These reasons were cast into a standard form and presented as a Q-sort to 100 undergraduates who rated each reason's "importance...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1968]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Religious experience philosophy
B Statistical variance B Demography B Factor analysis B Morality B Liberal arts education B Sharing B Catholicism B Religious Freedom B Q sort |
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| Summary: | A more or less exhaustive set of reasons for participating in religious activities was identified by respondents from a wide variety of religious denominations. These reasons were cast into a standard form and presented as a Q-sort to 100 undergraduates who rated each reason's "importance to me." A principal components inverse factor analysis yielded seven interpretable clusters of people (types): the humble servants of God; the self-improvers; the family guidance seekers; the moralists; the God-seekers; the socially-oriented servants of God; the religious eggheads. These clusters correspond to dimensions found in other studies. Degree of membership in clusters related meaningfully to personal, social and demographic variables. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1384632 |