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Deconversion is a dynamical biographical process with long-term, slowly changing causes and consequences. Based on quantitative and qualitive data, DECONVERSION REVISITED presents ten longitudinal case studies representing the lifespan from early adulthood to old age. These case studies are based on reinterviews with the Faith Development Interview and questionnaire data ten years later. The data yield insight in stability and change of biographies, faith development, psychological well-being and coping with disengagement from a variety of religious backgrounds.

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Many people in the USA, but also in Germany self-identify as spiritual or say I am more spiritual than religious. But what exactly is the meaning of spirituality? What are the psychological and biographical underpinnings of preferences for this self-identification? Barbara Keller and Heinz Streib answer these questions with reference to results of the Bielefeld-based Cross-cultural Study on Spirituality with focus on the German participants. The authors present qualitative and quantitative results that are relevant for researchers as well as for people working in education, counseling, churches and the media. Ich bin mehr spirituell als religiös sagen immer mehr Menschen in den U.S.A., aber auch in Deutschland. Was heißt hier Spiritualität? Welche psychologischen und biographischen Veränderungen sind damit verbunden? Heinz Streib und Barbara Keller geben Antworten, gestützt auf die qualitativen und quantitativen Ergebnisse der an der Universität Bielefeld durchgeführten Studie zur Semantik und Psychologie von Spiritualität. Eine lohnenswerte Lektüre über Veränderungen im religiösen Feld für alle, die sich an Universität und Schule, in Seelsorge und Beratung, in Kirchen und Medien mit dem Phänomen Spiritualität beschäftigen.

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This book presents case studies and empirical data of a phenomenon which increasingly gains popularity in Western societies: deconversion. There is, the authors argue, no better word than deconversion to describe processes of disengagement from religious orientations because these have much in common with conversion. Termination of membership may eventually be the final step of deconversion, but it involves biographical and psychological dynamics which can and need to be reconstructed by qualitative approaches and analyzed by quantitative instruments.In the Bielefeld-based Cross-Cultural Study on Deconversion disengagement processes from a variety of religious backgrounds in the USA and in Germany were examined, ranging from well-established religious organizations to new religious and fundamentalist groups. Nearly 1,200 persons participated in thestudy and were interviewed from 2002 to 2005. In the focus of the study are 100 deconverts from the USA and from Germany who were examined with narrative interviews, faith development interviews and an extensive questionnaire. For case study elaboration, the study followed a research design with an innovative triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data. Four chapters, corresponding to four types of deconversion, present 21 case studies. The highlights of the research project are new data on spirituality the deconverts in particular appear to prefer a "more spiritual than religious" self-identification and in-depth analyses of a variety of deconversion narratives with special focus on personality factors, motivation, attitudes, religious development, psychological well-being and growth, religious fundamentalism and right-wing authoritarianism. The results of this project which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft are of special relevance for counselling and pastoral care, for religious education and for people concerned with administration and management of religious groups and churches, but also for a wider audience interested in contemporary changes in the religious fields in the USA and Germany.

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