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Quest religious orientation among church leaders in Australia : a function of psychological predisposition or openness to mystical experience?
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Francis, Leslie J., Village, Andrew and Powell, R. (2019) Quest religious orientation among church leaders in Australia : a function of psychological predisposition or openness to mystical experience? Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11 (2). pp. 123-130. doi:10.1037/rel0000125 ISSN 1941-1022.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000125
Abstract
Quest-religious orientation among church leaders signifies a style of leadership committed to religious explorations more than to religious certainties. For this study, we set out to explore the extent to which quest orientation among a sample of 1,265 religious church leaders who participated in the 2011 Australian National Church Life Survey was a function of psychological predisposition, conceptualized in terms of psychological type theory, or a function of distinctive forms of religious experience, conceptualized in terms of Happold’s (1963) model of mysticism. The data demonstrated that higher levels of mystical orientation were associated with psychological predisposition, involving extraversion, intuition, feeling, and perceiving. After controlling for sex, age, education, denominational groups, and psychological type, higher levels of mystical orientation were also associated with higher levels of quest-religious orientation. Mystical orientation partly mediated the effect of intuition on question orientation, but psychological preferences (for intuition and perceiving) and mystical orientation seemed independently to promote quest orientation. Thus, church leaders committed to religious explorations rather than to religious certainties seemed to have been shaped both by psychological predisposition and by distinctive forms of religious experience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BV Practical Theology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mysticism , Mysticism--Australia, Psychology, Religious, Psychology, Religious--Australia, Christianity--Psychology, Clergy--Training of, Clergy--Training of--Australia, Religious education--Australia | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | ||||||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1941-1022 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 11 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 123-130 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1037/rel0000125 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 March 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 April 2018 | ||||||||
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