Stages of Faith and Perceptions of Similar and Dissimilar Others
James Fowler's theory that personal faith develops through a series of stages has implications for the ways in which people view members of ingroups and outgroups. Those implications were tested in a survey of college students that measured their faith stage and asked a series of questions conc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
1989
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Review of religious research
Year: 1989, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 246-254 |
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| Summary: | James Fowler's theory that personal faith develops through a series of stages has implications for the ways in which people view members of ingroups and outgroups. Those implications were tested in a survey of college students that measured their faith stage and asked a series of questions concerning five college applicants who varied in their religious orientations. As predicted, respondents in earlier stages gave more positive ratings to religiously similar others than to religiously different others. Respondents in later stages did not rate similar and dissimilar others significantly differently. The most significant difference was between those who selected only responses that reflected Fowler's Stages Four and Five and those who even once selected responses that reflected Stages Two or Three. The implications of this apparent threshold effect and the use of surveys in faith stage research are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511509 |