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- Title
İnanç Gelişimi Kuramı: Bilişsel Gelişime İçerik Boyutu Eklemek Mümkün mü?
- Authors
OK, Üzeyir
- Abstract
The theory of faith development introduced a comprehensive framework to understand the varieties in the way people become religious. The theory, which was developed as a result of qualitative work, was also measured with quantitative instruments in the past. However, the theory did not show its emphasis on the content area i.e. commitment people show to religion, as it did on the developments at cognitive level. Accordingly, several attitudes or positions towards religion stayed outside the theoretical as well as empirical framework. In this study a new theoretical dimension was offered to integrate to the cognitive style component. This is the level of commitment to a certain religion or faith. In order to test the validity of such a model a new instrument was developed using semantic differential scaling. In the end it was shown that the offered model works at empirical level at least at main dimensions. In the end, the new model with four main dimensions each with two religious styles were offered to the literature: conservers (conforming and particularistic); Unifiers (adorators, and apologetic); Seekers (enlightened, and dialectical); Objectors (opposers and dissenters)
- Publication
Firat University Faculty of Theology / Fırat Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 2, p27
- ISSN
1304-639X
- Publication type
Article