Asking questions and analysing answers about religious experience: developing the Greer tradition

Alister Hardy’s initiative in starting a programme of empirical research into religious experience in the UK employing the methods of the social sciences continues through the work of the Religious Experience Research Centres. John Greer initiated a similar research tradition through his questionnai...

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Главный автор: Astley, Jeff (Автор)
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Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Taylor & Francis 2017
В: Mental health, religion & culture
Год: 2017, Том: 20, Выпуск: 4, Страницы: 348-358
Другие ключевые слова:B Religious Experience
B Irish schools
B Students
B John Greer
B Alister Hardy
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Итог:Alister Hardy’s initiative in starting a programme of empirical research into religious experience in the UK employing the methods of the social sciences continues through the work of the Religious Experience Research Centres. John Greer initiated a similar research tradition through his questionnaire surveys of the incidence and nature of religious experience among children and young people in Northern Ireland. Leslie Francis and Tania ap Siôn replicated Greer’s classic surveys, with ap Siôn extending Greer’s analysis into nine categories of religious experience (Guidance and help, Exam concerns, God’s presence, Answered prayer, Death, Sickness, Conversion, Difficulty of description, and Miscellaneous), while also noting their setting and frequency. This paper develops the Greer tradition further, drawing on more recent data from pupils in the Republic of Ireland, and arguing for a modified analytical process in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of reports of religious experience.
ISSN:1469-9737
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2017.1280008