Examples of religiosity in the following topics:
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- Social class is associated with individuals' religious affiliations and practices but not with religiosity itself.
- This affiliation has more to do with how religion is practiced rather than degree of religiosity.
- Social class is not significantly correlated to religiosity, an index of how strongly religious a person is.
- Members of each social class show a range of religiosity.
- Explain how social class relates to religious affiliation, denomination and religiosity
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- Johnson found a dichotomization of religiosity as a result of college education.
- The relationship between education and religiosity is a dichotomization – college education strengthens both religiosity and irreligiosity, it just depends on where you end up.
- Batson et. al. distinguish between three types of religiosity.
- These types or orientations stem from the work of Gordon Allport who distinguished two types of religiosity and provided their corresponding labels: intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity.
- Batson et. al. add a third – quest religiosity.
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- For example, children raised in religious homes are more likely to have some degree of religiosity in their lives.
- The biggest predictor of adult religiosity is parental religiosity; if a person's parents were religious when he was a child, he is likely to be religious when he grows up.
- Explain how people come to be socialized in terms of religion and how parental influence is a key factor in religiosity
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- Freud, Weber) believed that as society modernized it would also see a decline in levels of religiosity.
- The most common meaning is in reference to the decline of levels of religiosity in society, but this is a broad and diffuse meaning that should be clarified by referring to one of the more specific meanings outlined below.
- 5) When discussing populations, secularization can refer to a societal decline in levels of religiosity (as opposed to the individual-level secularization of definition four).
- Some scholars have argued that levels of religiosity are not declining (though their argument tends to be limited to the U.S., an admitted anomaly in the developed world).
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- Mechanical solidarity refers to connection, cohesion, and integration born from homogeneity, or similar work, education, religiosity, and lifestyle.
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- ., a theistic and prosperous nation, demonstrates that religiosity doesn't necessarily correlate with creating cultures that reduce death.
- A meta-analysis of 34 recent studies published between 1990 and 2001 found that religiosity has a salutary relationship with psychological adjustment related to less psychological distress, more life satisfaction and better self-actualization.
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- In addition to these classical approaches to understanding religion, one modern explanation for the continued high levels of religiosity will be proposed along with a social psychological explanation that will attempt to explain the continued attraction of religion.
- Batson et. al. and Spilka, Hunsberger, Gorsuch, and Hood also point to this factor as an explanation for the continued interest in religiosity.
- The biggest predictor of adult religiosity is parental religiosity; if a person's parents were religious when he was a child, he is likely to be religious when he grows up.
- Combined, these three social-psychological components explain, with the help of religious pluralism, the continued high levels of religiosity in the U.S.
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- A meta-analysis of 34 recent studies published between 1990 and 2001 found that religiosity has a salutary relationship with psychological adjustment.
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- An opinion survey on religiosity and torture.
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- A number of scholarly theories attribute it in part to an assumption of greater religiosity in women; a way to shape identities and form community in a time of economic and personal insecurity; a reaction to the perceived sinfulness of youthful frivolity; or a way to assert oneself even in the face of male disapproval.