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1ST ED. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
How has faith developed in the US and German societies across the last decades? In a three-wave longitudinal investigation of faith development, this study presents the changes of worldview and meaning-making that people associate with their religious, spiritual, agnostic and atheist identifications. For almost two decades, research teams in Chattanooga (U.S.A.) and Bielefeld (Germany) have invited and re-invited hundreds of people to participate in a personal interview and to answer an extensive questionnaire in order to better understand the reasons and the consequences of their continuity or discontinuity in religious, spiritual, or non-theistic faith. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- References -- I. Part A: Conceptual & Methodological Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Religious Styles and Types: Studying Change and Development in Worldview and Faith -- Religious Change and Development -- The Focus of Our Research -- Our Contributions in Three Areas of Investigation -- Deconversion -- Spirituality -- Faith Development over Time -- Convergencies: Dynamics and Processes in Personality Psychology -- The Current Formulation of the Structural-Developmental Model of Faith Development -- Conceptual and Terminological Considerations |
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Faith and Religion -- Considering 'Worldview' -- Conclusion -- Recent Clarifications of the Structural-developmental Model of Styles and Types -- Summary of Religious Styles -- Structure and Structural Differences -- Type Construction -- Direction and Aim of Faith Development -- Logic of Development -- Dialog and Xenosophia -- Outlook: Wisdom and Faith Development -- Convergent Perspectives? -- References -- Chapter 2 A Common Core? Ideographic and Nomothetic Evidence for Mystical Experience in Relationship to Religious Styles & Types -- Faith Development in Dialogue -- Deconversion Revisited |
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Mysticism and the Binary -- Expanding the Binary: Vertical & Horizontal -- Mysticism: Walter Stace & William James -- Positive Psychology and Faith Development -- William James and Faith Development Theory -- James, Faith Development, and Prejudice -- Faith Development and Second Naïveté: Style 3 & Style 5 -- Faith Development: Depth vs. Breadth? -- A Closing Dilemma -- References -- Chapter 3 Identity and Narrative across the Adult Life-Span -- Concepts and Methods for the Study of Worldview and Religion in Consecutive Autobiographical Reconstructions |
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Mapping the Development of Faith across the Human Life-Span -- Religiosity and Worldview in Adult Development: From "Optimal Parallels" ... -- ... to Complex Trajectories: Stages, Styles and Dynamics -- Narrative and Identity Across the Adult Life Span -- Identity as development task of adolescence and beyond -- Narrative as life story and layer of personality -- Research Method: The Faith Development Interview -- "Interfaces" to current (narrative) approaches in Psychology -- Looking back on looking back: Double diachronicity -- Following Narrative Religious Identities or Worldviews |
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Changing Narrative Religious Identities in Changing Social and Historical Contexts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Mixed-Method and Longitudinal. Background and Profile of Our Research Design -- Methodological Background -- Pragmatism and Triangulation -- Mixed Methods -- Research Design -- General Features of our Research Design -- Qualitative, Idiographic Approaches to Triangulation -- Quantitative, Nomothetic Approaches to Triangulation -- Triangulation in our Research Design -- Case Example Carola -- Results on Psychometric Scales -- Findings of Structural Analysis |
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Religious life.
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Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- Religious life and customs.
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Bielefeld (Germany) -- Religious life and customs.
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Vie religieuse.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
3839471230 (electronic bk.) |
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9783839471234 (electronic bk.) |
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