TY  - JOUR
AB  - Based on the recent proposal in this journal (Streib, 2001a) to revise James Fowler’s (1981) faith development theory, the article argues for a revision of faith development research to account not only for structural diversity, but also for narrative and content diversity. Therefore, it suggests the inclusion of content-analytical and narrative-analytical procedures into faith development research. The argument develops in light of a review of 53 empirical studies that all have used Fowler’s faith development instrument or a variation thereof; this review pays attention to the instruments that have been proposed for quantitative research in faith development, but especially to the empirical studies that have already included narrative- and content-analytical approaches. The article concludes with a proposal for a revised research design that integrates attention for structure, content, and narrative and suggests a coherent methodological procedure for future research in faith development.
DA  - 2005
DO  - 10.1207/s15327582ijpr1502_1
KW  - Fowler
KW  - Faith Development
KW  - Faith development research
LA  - eng
IS  - 2
M2  - 99
PY  - 2005
SN  - 1050-8619
SP  - 99-121
T2  - The international journal for the psychology of religion
TI  - Faith development research revisited: Accounting for diversity in structure, content, and narrativity of faith
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-bipr-16586
Y2  - 2024-12-04T09:08:15
ER  -