THE RELIGIOSITY SCALES DEVELOPED ON THE MEASURABILTY OF RELIGIOSITY
Abstract
Religion has
drawn attention of sociologists since in the second half of the 19th century,
and it is observed that detailed studies in this field also began in the 20th
century. This is because there is no widely accepted and agreed definition on
religion, and since definition of religiosity would depend on the former,
religiosity has not been universally defined yet. However, it is clear that it
is impossible to talk about a single type of religiosity. Measuring an
individual’s religiosity by collecting data via empirical methods is not very
easy. Not only how religiosity would be measured, but also the issue of whether
it could ever be measured has been discussed widely as well, and is still being
discussed. After 1960s, religiosity has started to be regarded as a
multi-dimensional phenomenon and scales measuring religiosity on
multidimensional basis have been developed. When examining the studies on
measuring religiosity, it could be seen that religion does not have a
uni-dimensional, homogeneous structure. Multidimensional religiousity
scales, which were formulated after being discussed in relation with the
probability of measuring religiousity, were described and analyzed within this
study. While analysing and describing religiousity scales, studies about
religiousity scales in Turkey were reviewed. Moreover, how and by
whom different dimensions of religiousity were formulated
were identified. At this point, it can be assumed that religiousity will
continue to be measured even if studies of religiousity are hard to be
formulated
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
December 23, 2016
Submission Date
November 1, 2016
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2016 Number: 36
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