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Shaping attitudes toward church in a time of coronavirus : exploring the effects of personal, psychological, social, and theological factors among Church of England clergy and laity

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Village, Andrew and Francis, Leslie J. (2021) Shaping attitudes toward church in a time of coronavirus : exploring the effects of personal, psychological, social, and theological factors among Church of England clergy and laity. Journal of Empirical Theology, 34 (1). pp. 102-128. doi:10.1163/15709256-12341423

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Abstract

This paper reports on the effect of personal, psychological, social, and theological factors in shaping attitudes toward church buildings, the lockup of churches, and the trajectory into virtual church among 4,374 clergy and lay people from the Church of England during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Data from an online survey were used to create three scales, Pro Church Buildings, Anti Church Lockup, and Pro Virtual Church, which were shown to have adequate internal consistency reliability. Five sets of predictor variables were tested using hierarchical multiple regression: personal factors (sex and age), psychological factors (psychological type scores), social location (ordination status, education, geographic location), theological stance (modern versus traditional worship, liberal versus conservative doctrinal belief, liberal versus conservative views on morality), and Church tradition (Anglo-Catholic, Broad Church, Evangelical, and Charismaticism). The three scales were predicted by slightly different sets of variables, but in each case personal factors and psychological factors retained some predictive power after controlling for other sorts of factors. The results suggest that those most likely to embrace a future with a significant role for church life online are women (rather than men), the middle-aged (rather than younger or older people), intuitive (rather than sensing) and feeling (rather than thinking) psychological types, clergy (rather than laity), those living outside the inner cities, those who prefer modern (rather than traditional) forms of worship, those with more liberal (rather than conservative) views on doctrine and morality, and those who embrace Evangelical and Charismatic (rather than Anglo-Catholic) church traditions.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BX Christian Denominations
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR)
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Church of England -- Clergy -- Attitudes, Laity -- Church of England -- Attitudes, Church work -- Church of England, Internet in church work, Digital communications -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Empirical Theology
Publisher: Brill
ISSN: 1570-9256
Official Date: December 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
December 2021Published
28 October 2021Available
13 September 2021Accepted
Volume: 34
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 102-128
DOI: 10.1163/15709256-12341423
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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