Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Motivation: Retrospect and Prospect

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-222
Author(s):  
Crystal L. Park
Keyword(s):  
Religious Motivation

Social desirability, religious motivation, and gender differences

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Justin Middleton ◽  
Rose Mary Niles ◽  
Debbie Simpson ◽  
Laura Harris ◽  
John Tracy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
And Gender

Religion and Mythology in the Chilembwe Rising of 1915 in Nyasaland and the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland: Preparing for the End Times?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
T. Jack Thompson
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Easter Rising ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The People ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Interesting Difference ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Book Of Daniel ◽  
End Times

Superficially there are many parallels between the Chilembwe Rising of 1915 in Nyasaland and the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland – both were anti-colonial rebellions against British rule. One interesting difference, however, occurs in the way academics have treated John Chilembwe, leader of the Nyasaland Rising, and Patrick Pearse, one of the leaders of the Irish Rising and the man who was proclaimed head of state of the Provisional government of Ireland. For while much research on Pearse has dealt with his religious ideas, comparatively little on Chilembwe has looked in detail at his religious motivation – even though he was the leader of an independent church. This paper begins by looking at some of the major strands in the religious thinking of Pearse, before going on to concentrate on the people and ideas which influenced Chilembwe both in Nyasaland and the United States. It argues that while many of these ideas were initially influenced by radical evangelical thought in the area of racial injustice, Chilembwe's thinking in the months immediately preceding his rebellion became increasingly obsessed by the possibility that the End Time prophecies of the Book of Daniel might apply to the current political position in Nyasaland. The conclusion is that much more academic attention needs to be given to the millennial aspects of Chilembwe's thinking as a contributory motivation for rebellion.

Secondary-Cause Autonomy and Divine Motivation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Christian Schröer
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Theoretical View ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
The Voice

An act-theoretical view on the profile of responsibility discourse shows in what sense not only all kinds of technical, pragmatic and moral reason, but also all kinds of religious motivation cannot justify a human action sufficiently without acknowledgment to three basic principles of human autonomy as supreme limiting conditions that are human dignity, sense, and justifiability. According to Thomas Aquinas human beings ultimately owe their moral autonomy to a divine creator. So this autonomy can be considered as an expression of secondary-cause autonomy and as the voice of God in the enlightened conscience.

Percepción del estilo educativo parental, rendimiento académico y religiosidad intrínseca en estudiantes de nivel medio

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-79
Author(s):  
Yolman Manuel Méndez Niño ◽  
Mario Pereyra
Keyword(s):  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Motivation Scale

Esta investigación procuró determinar si existen efectos significativos del estilo educativo parental, según la percepción de los hijos, sobre el rendimiento académico y la religiosidad intrínseca en los estudiantes de una escuela preparatoria cristiana del noreste de México. Se utilizaron tres instrumentos: (a) la Escala de Estilos Parentales, compuesta por 41 ítems, (b) la concentración de calificaciones del sistema académico de nivel medio y (c) la Intrinsic Religious Motivation Scale (IRM), que consta de 10 ítems. La muestra contempló a 116 estudiantes de nivel medio. Se encontró que existen efectos significativos del estilo educativo parental, en sus dimensiones control conductual y control psicológico, sobre el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes. Existen efectos significativos del estilo educativo parental, en sus dimensiones control conductual y revelación, sobre la religiosidad intrínseca de los estudiantes. En general se concluyó que el estilo educativo parental, según la percepción de los hijos, produce efectos significativos sobre el rendimiento educativo y la religiosidad intrínseca del estudiante, aunque la relación, tanto en el caso del rendimiento académico como de la religiosidad intrínseca, no se da con todas las dimensiones del estilo educativo parental.

scholarly journals Construction of a religious motivation questionnaire

Psihologija ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Stojkovic ◽  
Jovan Miric
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Wish Fulfillment ◽  
Questionnaire Construction

The paper describes the construction of a new religious motivation questionnaire. The construction was proceeded by an analysis which revealed that the existing instruments for assessing religious motivation have deficiencies and, most importantly, may not be suitable for use with persons in adolescence or younger. In the first phase of the questionnaire construction, a semi-structured interview was used on a sample of 111 respondents aged 10-25 from Belgrade. The interview findings suggested the presence of religious motivation dimensions which are not contained in the existing instruments. In the second phase, an initial pool of items, formulated based on interview answers, was administered to a sample of 354 secondary school and university students from Belgrade. Principal component analysis revealed five dimensions of religious motivation measured by the constructed questionnaire: religion as ultimate value; religion as a means of wish-fulfillment; religion as a source of emotional well-being; ideals and morality; religion as a part of tradition; and tendency to meet social expectations regarding religion. The questionnaire scales show excellent reliability.

scholarly journals FIGHTING FOR ISIS – THE CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Cieslar
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Online Chat ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Recruitment Methods ◽  
The Us ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Foreign Fighters ◽  
Short Time

Abstract: The purpose of this research paper is to examine the online recruitment processes and socio-economic factors that allow for the radicalisation of people in Great Britain. The paper will address the following questions: 1) what are ISIS recruitment methods? 2) what makes the recruitment successful? 3) is religious motivation the main factor why people decide to fight for the Islamic State? According to the US National Counterterrorism Centre, in the recent years Islamic State (ISIS) recruited an estimate of 3,400 Westerners ready to fight its cause around the globe. Islamic State has a far more successful rate in luring members from the West than Al-Qaeda. In a relatively short time ISIS went from being an unknown terror cell to threatening worldwide security. Great Britain experienced a number of terrorist attacks in the recent years and the responsibility for them had been claimed by ISIS. However, with the arrival of easy access to the internet the radicalisation of young Britons has been on the rise in the recent years. The studies suggest that there are different motivations for joining Islamic State. Foreign fighters are made to believe that the terrorist group offers values that western democracies seem to lack, namely a common purpose, good morals and sense of belonging. These values are attractive for Muslims and for the new converts alike. Additionally, ISIS recruiters run an online propaganda machine. The process of radicalisation moved from the mosques into more effective online chat-rooms and social media forums.

Joining (and Leaving) a Muslim Minority

2018 ◽  
pp. 310-352
Author(s):  
Jack Tannous
Keyword(s):  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Material Benefits ◽  
Christian Leaders

This chapter focuses on the most consequential kind of Christian–Muslim interaction: conversion. It considers legitimate and illegitimate reasons for converting from one religion to another. For some Christian leaders, becoming a Muslim was something that people did out of a number of motivations, some of them more unholy than others: in addition to a desire for material benefits or a drive for status and power, there were family or tribal connections that drew people to convert. There was also an attraction to a religious framework that allowed a greater range of human behaviors and activities. People might also become Muslims under compulsion. Tellingly, these leaders could not conceive that a person might convert out of sincere religious motivation. Conversions that took place with reference to doctrines or beliefs were seen as cases where people had been deceived or had acted out of a lack of education and ignorance.

Burials ad Sanctos

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Robert Wiśniewski
Keyword(s):  
Third Century ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Physical Proximity ◽  
Material Evidence

Both textual and material evidence demonstrates that many Christians would go to great lengths to bury their kin ad sanctos, close to the tombs of saints. The beginnings of this practice are often dated to the late third century. This chapter argues that the basis for such an early dating is tenuous. It also deals with the character of physical proximity between the ordinary dead and the martyrs: how close were the bones of the former placed to those of the latter? Were the relics put inside their tombs? Also, this chapter seeks to explain the reasons why people buried their dead ad sanctos. While acknowledging their religious motivation it shows that some Christians simply desired to entomb their dead close to a famous hero rather than to the source of a beneficial power.

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