Subject:
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Center for Religion and Contemporary Society (CRCS) |
Organization:
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Leerstoel Empirische en praktische religiewetenschap |
Journal title:
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Journal of Empirical Theology
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Abstract:
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How do we build theory on religion in cross-religious research? This article deals with four methodological issues in answering this question. What are the goals of cross-religious comparison? What is the object of cross-religious research? What kind of definition of religion is used in cross-religious comparison? And finally, how can we asses similar phenomena across different religious traditions? The last question is specified by the distinction of levels of equivalence in quantitative cross-religious survey research.
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