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| Multidimensional measurement of religiousness/spirituality for use in health research in cross-cultural perspective | | Author(s) | John W Traphagan |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 27, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp 387-419 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Religion ; Measurement ; Health [elderly] ; Research ; Methodology ; Cross sectional surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | This article explores the difficulties that arise when culture is factored into the attempt to develop methods for both describing and measuring religiousness or spirituality as variables for health research. The author uses the report, "Multidimensional measurement of religiousness/spirituality for use in health research", published by John E Fetzer Institute (1999) to raise questions about the extent to which basic ideas associated with the study of Judeo-Christian religions are meaningful in contexts such as Japan, India or China. He uses a combination of ethnographic data from his own fieldwork for Japan, and ethnographic literature focused on other cultures, to argue that as an analytical strategy, "religion" is problematic, because basic elements of that category, such as faith or the notion of the transcendent, have been developed in terms of a predominantly Christian or Western theological framework that is not necessarily appropriate for research in non-Western cultural contexts. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060814201 A |
| Classmark | EX: TR: 3R: CC: 3A: 3D: 3KB: 7DT |
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