Following Deconverts and traditionalists: longitudinal case study construction
Case study construction in longitudinal perspective means to follow a single case across time based on the consecutive Faith Development Interviews (FDIs) and drawing on psychometric data. We regard the interviews as the focus of our current study. Therefore, in this chapter, we first look into the...
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2022
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Deconversion revisited
Year: 2022, Volume: 33, Pages: 83-107 |
| Summary: | Case study construction in longitudinal perspective means to follow a single case across time based on the consecutive Faith Development Interviews (FDIs) and drawing on psychometric data. We regard the interviews as the focus of our current study. Therefore, in this chapter, we first look into the history of method development. Then, we present the basic method, the Faith Development Interview, and explain the structural evaluation according to the model of religious styles. Next, we turn to content, to what was said at different points in time in the domains of the FDI, to narratives and to key aspects already defined or newly emerging. Working in longitudinal perspective, we are interested in tracing change as well as stability. We do this by comparing the interviews obtained at the time of the original Deconversion Study (Streib, Hood, Keller, Csöff, & Silver, 2009)—in this volume referred to as Time 1—, and at the time of re-interviewing—here referred to as Time 2, which means after a time span of about 10 years. These are interpreted against the background of the differences and similarities of psychometric profiles obtained at both points of measurement. As an outlook, we discuss ongoing methodological innovation and how to balance this with continuity in longitudinal research. |
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| ISBN: | 3525568681 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Streib, Heinz, 1951 -, Deconversion revisited
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