Asking questions and analysing answers about religious experience : developing the Greer tradition

Astley, J. (2017) Asking questions and analysing answers about religious experience : developing the Greer tradition. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 20 (4). pp. 348-358. ISSN 1367-4676

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Abstract

Alister Hardy's initiative in starting a programme of empirical research into religious experience in the UK employing the methods of the social sciences continues through the work of the Religious Experience Research Centres. John Greer initiated a similar research tradition through his questionnaire surveys of the incidence and nature of religious experience among children and young people in Northern Ireland. Leslie Francis and Tania ap Siôn replicated Greer's classic surveys, with ap Siôn extending Greer's analysis into nine categories of religious experience (Guidance and help, Exam concerns, God's presence, Answered prayer, Death, Sickness, Conversion, Difficulty of description, and Miscellaneous), while also noting their setting and frequency. This paper develops the Greer tradition further, drawing on more recent data from pupils in the Republic of Ireland, and arguing for a modified analytical process in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of reports of religious experience.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Stephen Macdonald
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2019 09:32
Last Modified:	21 Feb 2020 12:15
URI:	https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/663

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