Post-Critical Belief a New Approach To the Religious Attitude Problem1

Abstract

After a short view on the story of religious attitude measurement and indicating some problems with this kind of questions and items, a new model of religious attittude measurement is proposed, based on theoretical views of Ricoeur. Three dimensions are proposed: orthodoxy, external critique and historical relativism. Correlations with other measures of religious attitude and with measures of certainty, etnocentricity, anomia and personal orientation are presented.

Beliefs in Miraculous Healings, Religiosity and Meaning in Life

“…Inclusion of Transcendence and the Literal vs. Symbolic way of interpreting the content of religious beliefs [46][47][48]. From this perspective it seems reasonable to conduct research not only within the Polish culture but also in other European countries, experiencing secularization processes.…”

Culture, Perception/Belief about Death and their Implication to the Awareness and Control of the Socio-Economic, Environmental and Health Factors Surrounding Lower Life Expectancy in Nigeria

“…Even though substantial number of studies such as the ones by Gartner [14]; Hutsbaut [12]; Duriez [37]; Falkenhain and Handal [38] have touched the relationship between religiosity and death attitudes, these studies were not enough to have addressed comprehensively the issue of religion and death as acknowledged by Neimeyer et al [1].…”

“…According to Frank, spiritual belief and the level of religiosity and cultural perspective among the population in any given setting even though some scholars seem to ignore these [12][13][14].…”

“…3 No. 5: 56 2 This article is available from: https://psychopathology.imedpub.com/ religiosity and cultural perspective among the population in any given setting even though some scholars seem to ignore these [12][13][14].Similarly, some scholars have given more attention to anxiety about death more than other socio-psychological and cultural factors surrounding attitude and belief about death [15].According to the study by Weafer [8], individuals in advanced nations such as Ireland, Belgium, Norway and Luxemburg were found to have civilized to make decision in advance about life termination should they face with terminal illness in future time.In a multiple city/nations, Weafer [8] discovered that majority of the respondents (82%) preferred allowing their families and the doctor to make decision over termination of their life in the face of complicated terminal illness but have already recorded such in their advance directives. The above findings are in support of other studies such as the one by Irish Council for Bioethics' Survey, which found that 72% of respondents stated that they would prefer their next of kin to make healthcare decision on behalf of them, if they were incapable of doing so.…”

The relationship between religious attitudes, coping strategies, and mental health in adolescence and young adulthood

“…szent iratok) szó szerinti, illetve szimbolikus értelmezése alkotja. A vallá-sosság fejlõdése során a vallásos attitûd a szó szerinti elfogadásból a kritikai lebontáson keresztül jut el a vallásos szimbólumok összetett értelme-zéséig (Hutsebaut, 1996). E folyamat mögött a serdülõ-és fiatal felnõttkor általános fejlõdéslélektani jellegzetességei húzódnak meg, így például a gondolkodás komplexitásának változása (Desimpelaere és mtsai, 1999;Duriez és Soenens, 2006).…”