A Comparative Study of the Factor Structure among Professors and Clergymen

To assess the factor structure of religious beliefs & att's, this study uses 2 mail surveys, one of clergymen of 11 denominations & the 2nd of U professors. The dimensions measured were fundamentalism, altruism, mysticism, superstition, theism, church orientation, ritualism, & ideal...

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Published in:Journal for the scientific study of religion 1970-07, Vol.9 (2), p.137-141
Main Authors: Maranell, Gary M., Razak, W. Nevell
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Altruism
Bible
Churches
Clergy/Clergyman/Clergymen/ Clericalism
Clerics
College faculty
Factor analysis
From a Symposium on the Scientific and Humanistic Study of Religion
Occupation/Occupations/Occupational
Personality/Personalities
Professor/Professors/Professorial
Psychological attitudes
Religion
Religion/Religions/Religious
Religious experience philosophy
Religious rituals
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Summary:To assess the factor structure of religious beliefs & att's, this study uses 2 mail surveys, one of clergymen of 11 denominations & the 2nd of U professors. The dimensions measured were fundamentalism, altruism, mysticism, superstition, theism, church orientation, ritualism, & idealism. The clergymen were found to have a more diff'iated factor structure than the professors. These findings are seen to offer support for the explanation that religious "insiders" make more subtle & sophisticated clusterings or groupings of these att's than religious "outsiders." It was also found that in the professor sample, or in the academic pop, there is a "secular morality," a set of beliefs regarding responsibility to one's fellow men, which is relatively detached from religious or ecclesiastical considerations. Clergymen, on the other hand, cluster the more humanitarian dimensions with certain definitely instit'al & sacred att's. Modified HA.
ISSN:0021-8294
1468-5906
DOI:10.2307/1384979