Religious education as a factor of personality formation

Fundamentalism as a Challenge for Religious Education

Empirical research on fundamentalist biographies—presented are three case studies and a summary of research results—demonstrate the complex biographical-motivational factors for fundamentalist turns, but also a transformational potential. Explaining fundamentalist conversion and deconversion within a theoretical framework of fundamentalism as “modern anti-modernism” and as “dislocation of relig...

Big Two Personality and Religiosity Across Cultures: Communals as Religious Conformists and Agentics as Religious Contrarians

How are the Big Two personality dimensions of agency (e.g., competence, uniqueness, ambition) and communion (e.g., warmth, relatedness, morality) related to religiosity? A standard view assumes that communion encourages religiosity, whereas agency is independent of religiosity. Our model is more nuanced, taking into account the Big Two’s motivational base as well as culture: Because communal in...

Western Personality Theories| 1 Religious Implications of Western Personality Theory

The purpose of this article is to outline some of the religious implications of Western personality theories. It begins with broad comments about the general theoretical tradition of the West, especially for secular disciplines such as psychology. Next, it sketches briefly the religious implications of many aspects of the three forces of psychology, i.e., psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humani...

Religious affiliation as a subtle sociohistorical factor in Palestinian Arabic

There are various ways in which religious affiliation can present itself as a sociolinguistic variable in Arabic dialects. The best-documented case is probably that of Baghdadi Arabic, in which Blanc (1964) reports that three “communal dialects” exist (or existed, until virtually all Jewish Iraqis emigrated westward) – the mainstream Muslim koiné, and a Christian and Jewish variety, which share...

Paranormal beliefs, religious beliefs and personality correlates