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

Contributor(s): Finke, Roger, 1954- [editor.] | Bader, Christopher David [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: viii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781479875214; 147987521X; 9781479877102; 1479877107Subject(s): Religion -- Methodology | Religion -- StatisticsDDC classification: 200.28/7 LOC classification: BL41 | .F355 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The art and science of studying religion / Roger Finke Christopher D. Bader -- How religious identity shapes survey responses / Philip S. Brenner ; Measurement tools and issues in the psychology of religion and spirituality / Peter C. Hill Kenneth I. Pargament ; Indirect and implicit measures of religiosity / Jonathan Jong, Bonnie Poon Zahl, Carissa A. Sharp ; Assessing measures of religion and secularity with crowdsourced data from Amazon's mechanical turk / Joseph O. Baker, Jonathan P. Hill, Nathaniel D. Porter ; Evaluating survey measures using the ARDA's measurement wizard / Christopher D. Bader 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 Finke 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 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, Luke Knepper -- Lessons learned, challenges remaining / Roger Finke Christopher D. Bader.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The art and science of studying religion / Roger Finke and Christopher D. Bader -- Section I. Survey measures of religion. 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 A. 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 -- Section II. Beyond surveys. 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 Finke 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 -- Conclusion: Lessons learned, challenges remaining / Roger Finke and Christopher D. Bader.

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