Faithful measures : new methods in the measurement of religion / edited by Roger Finke and Christopher D. Bader.

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In an era of rapid technological advances, the measures and methods used to generate data about religion have undergone remarkably little change. Faithful Measures pushes the study of religion into the 21st century by evaluating new and existing measures of religion and introducing new methods for t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Finke, Roger, 1954- (Editor)
Bader, Christopher, 1969- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Religion > Methodology.
Religion > Statistics.
RELIGION > General.
Religion.
Statistics.
Genre:
Statistics.
Physical Description:viii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • How religious identity shapes survey responses / Philip S. Brenner
  • Measurement tools and issues in the psychology of religion and spirituality / Peter C. Hill and Kenneth I. Pargament
  • Indirect and implicit measures of religiosity / Jonathan Jong, Bonnie Poon Zahl, and Carissa Sharp
  • Assessing measures of religion and secularity with crowdsourced data from Amazon's mechanical turk / Joseph O. Baker, Jonathan P. Hill, and Nathaniel D. Porter
  • Evaluating survey measures using the ARDA's measurement wizard / Christopher D. Bader and Roger Finke
  • Using the total survey error paradigm to improve cross-national research on religion / Tom W. Smith
  • From documents to data / Christopher P. Scheitle
  • Historical research : Oneida online / Williams Sims Bainbridge
  • What is religious NGO? conceptual and classificatory challenges in research on transnational religion / Evelyn L. Bush
  • Reviewing millions of books : charting cultural and religious trends with Google's Ngram viewer / Roger Fink and Jennifer M. McClure
  • Pathways to discovery and enlightenment : Amazon's recommendation system as a source of information on religious and paranormal consumption patterns / Nathaniel D. Porter and Christopher D. Bader
  • Lessons learned from SoulPulse, a smartphone-based experience sampling method (S-ESM) study of spirituality / Bradley R.E. Wright, Richard A. Blackmon, David M. Carreon, and Luke Knepper.