The Prediction of Religious Change
Faced with a problem, an individual can either seek a solution or increase his relatedness to the environment; the latter gives him the strength to endure his problem. A desire for increased relatedness often means a heightened interest in religion because the religious institution and the spiritual...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1965
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1965, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 72-81 |
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| Summary: | Faced with a problem, an individual can either seek a solution or increase his relatedness to the environment; the latter gives him the strength to endure his problem. A desire for increased relatedness often means a heightened interest in religion because the religious institution and the spiritual relationship offer the greatest openness to the development of new relationships. The probability of religious change, then, is a function of the degree to which an individual's environment is problematic and the degree to which he is related to his environment. The extent of relatedness, in time, is a function of similarity, power, and knowledge. (Religious institutions tend to become specialized about either the similarity basis—Holiness Type or the power basis—Roman Catholic Type.) Finally, two other factors must be considered: 1) the extent of social opposition to change, the significance of which is a function of 2) the person's inner strength, i.e. his degree of self-relatedness. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710329 |