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The social scientific study of religion appreciates the multidimensional nature of religion and spirituality and distinguishes between a number of welldefined dimensions, including affiliation (say Methodist, Catholic, Muslim), practice (say, personal prayer, public attendance), belief (say, life after death, hell), orientation (say, intrinsic, extrinsic), and attitude. This chapter concentrates on the body of research which has refined concern with the attitudinal dimension of religion and spirituality. The argument proceeds in five steps: defining and critiquing the concept of attitude; describing and assessing methods of assessing and measuring attitude; assembling and integrating the research evidence concerned with the correlates of the attitudinal dimension of religion and spirituality; antecedents and consequences of individual differences in the attitudinal dimension of religion and spirituality; and applying the research evidence to practice.
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Francis, L.J. (2009). Understanding the Attitudinal Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality. In: de Souza, M., Francis, L.J., O’Higgins-Norman, J., Scott, D. (eds) International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9018-9_9
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