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Post-Critical Belief a New Approach To the Religious Attitude Problem1

Dirk Hutsebaut
- 01 Jan 1996 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 2, pp 48-66
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In this paper, a new model of religious attittude measurement is proposed, based on theoretical views of Ricoeur, and three dimensions are proposed: orthodoxy, external critique and historical relativism.
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After a short view on the story of religious attitude measurement and indicating some problems with this kind of questions and items, a new model of religious attittude measurement is proposed, based on theoretical views of Ricoeur. Three dimensions are proposed: orthodoxy, external critique and historical relativism. Correlations with other measures of religious attitude and with measures of certainty, etnocentricity, anomia and personal orientation are presented.

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