Who is "spiritual"?
This chapter explores the “spiritual/religious” self-identifications in cross-cultural perspective. In addition to current self-identifications we asked how respondents remembered their environment at age 12 and combined this information with the current self-identification. Therefore, we can look a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2016
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| In: |
Semantics and psychology of spirituality
Year: 2016, Pages: 53-67 |
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| Summary: | This chapter explores the “spiritual/religious” self-identifications in cross-cultural perspective. In addition to current self-identifications we asked how respondents remembered their environment at age 12 and combined this information with the current self-identification. Therefore, we can look at trajectories in both subsamples. Further, we explore aspects of social identity, such as sex, age , and current religious affiliation . Results indicate that participants who self-identify as “more religious” are affiliated with traditional, mostly Christian religious groups in both countries. Christian affiliates in our sample nevertheless self-identify more frequently as “equally religious and spiritual” or as “more spiritual than religious.” The majority of respondents in our sample self-identify as “more spiritual” whether they report affiliation with a religious tradition or not. In Germany, most “more spirituals” report “no religion,” while in the USA most “more spirituals” belong to a religious organization. The self-identification as “neither religious nor spiritual” in most cases is connected to non-affiliation, with the exception of a small group of Protestant s. Similarities and differences are discussed with reference to semantics in both research contexts. |
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| ISBN: | 3319212451 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Semantics and psychology of spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21245-6_5 |