World-View and Personality

Björkqvist, Kaj; Bergbom, Barbara; Holm, Nils G.

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“…In Switzerland, according to Campiche (2004), those who are undecided on their own religiousness are also most likely to take part in "para-religious practices". In the results of a survey conducted in Finland, "general Christian religiousness" was also positively correlated with "quasi-religious systems of belief" like occultism (Björkqvist et al, 1994). Kääriäinen (1999) found similar connections in Russia, although his attempt at explaining it by the fact that Russians know little about religion is not convincing.…”

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“Heterodox Religiousness” in Today’s Russia: Results of an Empirical Study

Belyaev

2011

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The author presents a selection of important results from a new representative population survey on the attitudes and experiences with various forms of heterodox (also sometimes called non-institutionalised, "eclectic" or "esoteric") religiousness, conducted in the Russian Federation in 2006 -the first survey in this country to have focused specifically on this kind of religiousness. The author shows that heterodox religiousness appears to have become the dominant form of religiousness in contemporary Russia and involves a larger proportion of the population than traditional Christian religiousness.L'auteur présente une sélection de résultats importants provenant d'une enquête réalisée sur une population représentative à propos des attitudes et expériences de formes variées de religiosité hétérodoxe (appelée parfois non institutionnalisée, "éclectique" ou "ésotérique"). Cette enquête a été menée dans la Fédéra-tion de Russie en 2006. Elle constituait la première enquête de ce pays centrée spécifiquement sur ce type de religiosité. L'auteur montre que la religiosité hétérodoxe est apparemment devenue la forme dominante de religiosité dans la Russie contemporaine et qu'elle rassemble une part plus importante de la population que la religiosité chrétienne traditionnelle.

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“Heterodox Religiousness” in Today’s Russia: Results of an Empirical Study

Belyaev

2011

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“…The subjects (n = 183) were students of art, humanities, technology, social sciences and agriculture in Warsaw (50.8% women, mean age 21.34 years). A questionnaire was distributed during lectures.This was the World-View Questionnaire developed in Finland and later applied in a comparative research project in several countries (Björkqvist et al, 1990(Björkqvist et al, , 1994Björkqvist and Holm, 1996). The items in the questionnaire were posed as statements assessing the degree of agreement with the content of the statement on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from 0 (absolutely no agreement) to 4 (total agreement).The questionnaire items used in this study can be categorized within five basic groups: worldview (85 items related to various religious, irreligious, parareligious and parascientific beliefs); personality traits (30 items); relations with parents and their characteristics (16 items, including 4 items related to parents' religiosity); future expectations (13 items); and mysticism (9 items), this last adapted from Hood's (1975) Mysticism Scale.…”

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The “New Age” Worldview of Polish Students

Doktór¹

1999

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After factor analysis of the 85 items of a worldview questionnaire, the author constructed a “New Age” scale of 18 items related to oriental religious beliefs, occultism, and magic. The scores were found to be positively correlated with mysticism, anxiety and self-esteem, and negatively with father's religiosity. A “New Age” worldview is interpreted as a loosely structured belief system, individually constructed by way of bricolage, “this-worldly” rather than “other-worldly” in orientation, and emphasizing experiential rather than institutional legitimation; this appeals more to those with only a weak connection to traditional Christianity. The role of the individual self in the construction of the “New Age” worldview, the lack of certainty of these beliefs, and their magical and mystical orientation, are interpreted in terms of narcissism (heightened self-esteem as a form of defence against anxiety), a trait fostered by deinstitutionalization and subjectivization of modern culture.

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Does the counter-cultural character of new age persist? Investigating social and political attitudes of new age followers

Höllinger¹

2004

Journal of Contemporary Religion

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From its beginnings in the 1960s up to the present, the New Age movement has undergone considerable change. Originally, it was a counter-cultural movement, interacting with other counter-cultural movements of that time, such as the ecology, hippie, and commune movements. During the last decades, spiritual and esoteric methods have been popularised and commercialised by an expanding market of literature and workshops. This has made New Age a socially accepted phenomenon and it has thus lost much of its anti-modernist and culture-critical character. In this article, I will show by means of quantitative empirical analyses that in spite of the transformations, the affinity between New Age activism and culture-critical attitudes persists to a certain degree. This is particularly the case for persons aiming at self-perfection by means of spiritual exercises and alternative health methods. Among persons who are primarily interested in esoteric methods, such as astrology and Tarot cards, hedonistic and authoritarian attitudes are, however, more widespread.

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World-View and Personality

Cited by 3 publications

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“Heterodox Religiousness” in Today’s Russia: Results of an Empirical Study

“Heterodox Religiousness” in Today’s Russia: Results of an Empirical Study

The “New Age” Worldview of Polish Students

Does the counter-cultural character of new age persist? Investigating social and political attitudes of new age followers

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