Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Section I. Survey Measures of Religion
5. 1. How Religious Identity Shapes Survey Responses 21
6. 2. Measurement Tools and Issues in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 48
7. 3. Indirect and Implicit Measures of Religiosity 78
8. 4. Assessing Measures of Religion and Secularity with Crowdsourced Data from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk 108
9. 5. Evaluating Survey Measures Using the ARDA’s Measurement Wizard 140
10. 6. Using the Total Survey Error Paradigm to Improve Cross- National Research on Religion 167
11. Section II. Beyond Surveys
12. 7. From Documents to Data 201
13. 8. Historical Research 227
14. 9. What Is a Religious NGO? 260
15. 10. Reviewing Millions of Books 287
16. 11. Pathways to Discovery and Enlightenment 317
17. 12. Lessons Learned from SoulPulse, a Smartphone- Based Experience Sampling Method (S- ESM) Study of Spirituality 344
18. Conclusion 365
19. About the Editors 375
20. About the Contributors 377
21. Index 383