Outcomes of Life-span Development of Religious Styles: Changes in Symbolizing Transcendence and in Responding to the Strange. Matching Funds for a simultaneous application to the John Templeton Foundation

这个项目将有可能回答的问题是，在他们的一生中，个人是否，如何，为什么以及何时正在改变他们的宗教和世界观。本项目将把这种变化解释为一系列发展有序的宗教风格和宗教类型之间的迁移，重点关注宗教发展的结果：（a）人们对上帝的形象的变化，更一般地说，他们对超越的象征，以及（B）人们对偏见的变化，以及从认识论的角度来看，他们对陌生人的反应。本研究将能够回答这些问题，使用纵向数据，并采取多方法的方法：（信仰发展）访谈（FDI）和问卷调查数据的基础上，本项目继续调查的宗教变化的动力，从独特的和规则的角度被视为互补。因此，这个项目是陈述一个例子，说明如何结合的idiothetic和nomothetic方法的作品。在完成我们目前的项目（JTF赠款60806，“信仰发展重温”），这个项目包括第四波的实地工作使用FDI和我们的问卷调查，以提供足够的统计力量分析。我们还将继续在研讨会和网络研讨会上传播我们的方法专业知识，并将建立和认证外国直接投资评估标准。与当前和以前的项目一样，拟议中的研究将由比勒费尔德大学管理，比勒费尔德大学和田纳西大学查塔努加（UTC）的研究团队，H。Streib作为PI在比勒费尔德，R. Hood作为UTC的合作伙伴，Z.陈（克莱姆森大学）担任顾问。我们还考虑与D.货车通盖伦（希望学院）和N. DeWall（肯塔基州大学）正在计划一项关于去认同化的跨文化定量研究。

The questions that this project will have the potential to answer is, whether, how, why, and when in their lifetime individuals are changing their religion and worldview. Interpreting such changes as migrations between a series of developmentally ordered religious styles and religious types, this project will focus on the outcomes of religious development (a) for changes in people’s images of God and, in more general terms, their symbolization of transcendence, and (b) for people’s changes in prejudice and, in epistemological terms, their response to the Strange. This research will be able to answer these questions using longitudinal data and taking a multi-method approach: Based on (faith development) interviews (FDI) and questionnaire data, this project continues to investigate the dynamics of religious change from idiothetic and nomothetic angles that are treated as complementary. Thus, this project is stating an example of how the combination of idiothetic and nomothetic approaches works.After completing our current project (JTF Grant 60806, „Faith Development Revisited“), this project includes a 4th wave of field work using the FDI and our questionnaire to furnish analyses with sufficient statistical power. We also continue the dissemination of our methodological expertise in workshops and webinars, and will establish and certify a standard for FDI evaluation. The proposed study will, like the current and previous projects, be administered by Bielefeld University, with research teams at both Bielefeld University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), with H. Streib as PI in Bielefeld, R. Hood as cooperation partner at UTC, and Z. Chen (Clemson University) as consultant. We also consider cooperation with D. van Tongeren (Hope College) and N. DeWall (University of Kentucky) who are planning a major cross-cultural, quantitative study on deidentification.