Empirical Theology in Texts and Tables

CONTENTS

Preface …………………………………………………………………………….. xi

Introduction …………………………………………………………………….. xiii

PART ONE

THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter One Establishing Truth from Participation and

Distanciation in Empirical Theology ………………………………. 3

Jaco S. Dreyer

Chapter Two Truth and Method in Empirical Theology …… 27

Hans Schilderman

Chapter Three Religious Identity in Comparative

Research ………………………………………………………………………. 41

Johannes A. van der Ven

Chapter Four Epistemological Refl ections on the

Connection between Ideas and Data in Empirical

Research into Religion …………………………………………………… 73

Chris A.M. Hermans

Chapter Five Towards a Generic Model of Religious

Ritual …………………………………………………………………………… 101

Hans Schilderman

Chapter Six Comparative Empirical Research in Religion:

Conceptual and Operational Challenges within Empirical

Theology ……………………………………………………………………… 127

Leslie J. Francis

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PART TWO

QUALITATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Chapter Seven Adolescents’ Views of Denominational

Identities and of Dialogical Religious Education: An

Empirical Study from Germany …………………………………….. 155

Friedrich Schweitzer

Chapter Eight Ordinary Soteriology: A Qualitative Study …. 177

Ann Christie and Jeff Astley

Chapter Nine Narrative Competence and the Meaning of

Life: Measuring the Quality of Life Stories in a Project on

Care for the Elderly ………………………………………………………. 197

Thijs Tromp and R. Ruard Ganzevoort

Chapter Ten The Theological Case for Christian Schools in

England and Wales: A Qualitative Perspective Listening to

Female Alumnae …………………………………………………………… 217

Tania ap Siôn, Leslie J. Francis and Sylvia Baker

PART THREE

QUANTITATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Chapter Eleven Faith or Morality? ‘Theological Sediments’

Depending on the Centrality, Content, and Social Context

of Personal Religious Construct Systems …………………………. 249

Stefan Huber and Constantin Klein

Chapter Twelve Socialisation and Empirical-Theological

Models of the Trinity: A Study among Theology Students

in the United Kingdom …………………………………………………. 269

Mark J. Cartledge

Chapter Thirteen Religious Socialisation in the Family:

A Multi-dimensional and Multi-level Perspective ……………… 291

Sabine Zehnder Grob, Christoph Morgenthaler and Christoph Käppler

Chapter Fourteen Apostolic Networks in Britain: Personality

and Praxis ……………………………………………………………………. 321

William K. Kay

Chapter Fifteen Xenophobia and Religious Pluralism: An

Empirical Study among Youth in Germany …………………….. 339

Hans-Georg Ziebertz and Ulrich Riegel

Chapter Sixteen A Church Divided by Theology and

Practice: The Case of the Admission of Children to

Communion in the Church in Wales ………………………………. 365

Keith Littler

List of Contributors ………………………………………………………….. 387

Name index ……………………………………………………………………… 393

Subject index …………………………………………………………………… 401

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