Considering Catholics: an exploration of the literature available on religious identity development

MacLean, Sister Miriam; Riebschleger, Joanne

doi:10.1080/15426432.2021.1910612

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“…Despite the importance of religious identity, researchers over the past decades have found that there has been little research on religious identity (Bell, 2008;Fulton, 1997, Peek, 2005 and even less on the religious identity formation process (de Bruin-Wassinkmaat et al, 2019;Maclean and Riebschleger, 2021). de Bruin-Wassinkmaat and colleagues (2019) found that between 1960 and 2017, only fteen studies dealt with the religious identity development of strictly religious adolescents, and their ndings point to the fact that there is no common clear de nition of religious identity.…”

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“…Considering the lack of research on religious identity, generally (Bell, 2008;Fulton, 1997, Peek, 2005, and religious identity development, speci cally (de Bruin-Wassinkmaat et al, 2019;Maclean and Riebschleger, 2021), the aim of this study is to understand the process of religious identity development from both a re ective and an expressive viewpoint (Lichtwarck-Aschoff, Van Geert, Bosma, and Kunnen, 2008). The population researched was strictly religious students in religious prearmy gap year programs who were at the start of adulthood before they changed their life conditions, leaving their protective religious environment for the nonreligious environment of army service.…”

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Toward an Integrative Theory of Identity Formation; Three Components of the Religious Identity Formation Process

Halevy,

Gross

2023

Pastoral Psychol

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The religious identity formation process plays an important role in some people's lives; however, this identity domain has a lack of research. The aim of this study is to understand the process of religious identity development based on identity formation theory from a temporal integration perspective (Syed and McLean, 2016), which represents the developmental dimension of Erikson theory. MethodsUsing qualitative methodology, we conducted 158 interviews: 45 semistructured re ective interviews and 113 monthly expressive open interviews over 1.5 years with 20 male emerging adults aged 18-20 years in three religious Mechina gap-year programs in Israel. ResultsContent analysis distinguished three components of religious identity: a conceptual component, a practical component and a collective component, which were found to be dominant in different stages of the religious identity formation process and in a different social context. DiscussionThe ndings that point to two developmental models also relate to the person-society integration perspective (Syed and McLean, 2016), which represents the contextual dimension of Erikson's theory; both the developmental and the contextual dimensions are lacking in Marcia's operationalization of Erikson's theory. These ndings also shed light on the necessity to relate all these components in the religious identity domain and have the potential for an integrative view of identity formation, as we discuss below.

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Section: Religious Identity Formationmentioning

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Toward an Integrative Theory of Identity Formation; Three Components of the Religious Identity Formation Process

Halevy,

Gross

2023

Pastoral Psychol

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Change and stability in religious identity formation among high-school graduates undertaking religious mechina gap-year programs in Israel

Halevy

2023

j. relig. educ.

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Toward an integrative theory of identity formation? Three components of the religious identity formation process

Halevy

2022

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Objective The religious identity formation process plays an important role in some people’s lives; however, this identity domain has a lack of research. The aim of this study is to understand the process of religious identity development based on identity formation theory from a temporal integration perspective (Syed and McLean, 2016), which represents the developmental dimension of Erikson theory. Methods Using qualitative methodology, we conducted 158 interviews: 45 semistructured reflective interviews and 113 monthly expressive open interviews over 1.5 years with 20 male emerging adults aged 18–20 years in three religious Mechina gap-year programs in Israel. Results Content analysis distinguished three components of religious identity: a conceptual component, a practical component and a collective component, which were found to be dominant in different stages of the religious identity formation process and in a different social context. Discussion The findings that point to two developmental models also relate to the person-society integration perspective (Syed and McLean, 2016), which represents the contextual dimension of Erikson’s theory; both the developmental and the contextual dimensions are lacking in Marcia's operationalization of Erikson's theory. These findings also shed light on the necessity to relate all these components in the religious identity domain and have the potential for an integrative view of identity formation, as we discuss below.

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Considering Catholics: an exploration of the literature available on religious identity development

Cited by 3 publications

References 55 publications

Toward an Integrative Theory of Identity Formation; Three Components of the Religious Identity Formation Process

Toward an Integrative Theory of Identity Formation; Three Components of the Religious Identity Formation Process

Change and stability in religious identity formation among high-school graduates undertaking religious mechina gap-year programs in Israel

Toward an integrative theory of identity formation? Three components of the religious identity formation process

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