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RELIGIOUS IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT

Presented by Venice Ada Jardine

pioneers of religious identity development

  • Erik Erikson-- Identity Formation theories
  • James Marcia-- Identity Statuses
  • Jean Phinney and John Berry-- Ethnic Identity Development
  • Religious Identity Development... still developing

history

focuses

What does this research look like?

Adolescence

  • Parents' religious identity is strrong indicator
  • Correlated with ethnic identity
  • Time of exploration

Emerging Adulthood

"The stages of ethnic identity that have been described are important conceptually but remain difficult to measure accurately, and there is not extensive empirical research to validate them. Interviews are probably the best way to study ethnic identity stages, but they are time-consuming and difficult to code for assignment to stages. An alternate approach to measuring ethnic identity involves the use of a questionnaire. (1996, p. 147-148)

  • Increased exploration
  • Time of "semi-autonomy"
  • Religious participation decreases, but religious identity does not

Everything else??

some issues

Issues and Future Directions

  • Context not taken seriously
  • Very little research on continuing adulthood
  • Religiosity vs religiousness vs spirituality
  • Stage theories
  • Needs more separation from ethnic and gender identity development
  • Proposed future direction: Life Course Theory

Paper 2

Q and A

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