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Where does religiosity collide?

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religiosity4 CONSTRUCTSRelig. orientationALLPORT · ORIENTATIONReligious dimensionsGLOCK & STARK · DIMENSIONSWork-values driverPARBOTEEAH · WORK ETHICSCostly commitmentIANNACCONE · CLUB GOOD

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Psychology of religion

Intrinsic versus extrinsic religious orientation

A person's motivational stance toward their own faith, sorted by whether religion is an end in itself or a means to other goals. Allport and Ross's 1967 Personal religious orientation and prejudice drew the contrast between intrinsic religiosity, where faith is lived as the guiding aim of life, and extrinsic religiosity, where religion is used for comfort, status, or belonging. Here religiosity names an individual's inner motive for believing, scored on attitude scales, not a set of societal dimensions, a workplace value driver, or a cost-bearing economic choice.[1]

Unit
One person's motivational orientation, scored on intrinsic and extrinsic scales
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by the Religious Orientation Scale, with self-report items scoring intrinsic and extrinsic motives separately

Sociology of religion

Several distinct dimensions of religious commitment

A profile across separable dimensions of a group's or a person's religious life rather than a single quantity. Glock and Stark's 1965 Religion and society in tension argued that religiosity has distinct parts: belief, ritual practice, religious experience, religious knowledge, and the consequences faith has for daily conduct, and a person can rank high on one and low on another. Here religiosity is a many-dimensioned map of religious involvement, not an inner motive orientation, a driver of work attitudes, or a costly economic commitment.[2]

Unit
A person's or group's profile across several dimensions of religious life
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by survey batteries that score belief, practice, experience, knowledge, and consequences as separate scales

Management and organizational behavior

Religiosity as an antecedent of work values and ethics

An employee characteristic treated as a cause of workplace attitudes and ethical judgments. Parboteeah, Hoegl, and Cullen's 2008 Ethics and religion: An empirical test of a multidimensional model modeled religiosity as cognitive, affective, and behavioral components and tested how each shapes whether individuals are willing to justify ethically suspect behavior at work. Here religiosity is an input to organizational outcomes, measured to predict work values and ethical stances, not a personal faith orientation, a sociological dimension profile, or an economic cost.[3]

Unit
An employee's religiosity as cognitive, affective, and behavioral components predicting work attitudes
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Operationalised by survey scales for religious cognition, affect, and behavior, then linked to ethics and work-value measures

Economics of religion

Costly commitment that screens out free-riders

The level of costly participation a person rationally chooses within a religious group, viewed through the economics of collective goods. Iannaccone's 1992 Sacrifice and stigma modeled religion as a club good and treated religiosity as commitment made visible through sacrifice: demanding rules and stigma screen out low-commitment free-riders and raise the value of the group for those who stay. Here religiosity is a cost-bearing behavior set by group incentives, read from what people do and give up, not an inner motive orientation, a survey dimension profile, or a workplace value driver.[4]

Unit
The level of costly participation an individual rationally chooses within a religious group
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Inferred from participation, contributions, and the strictness or sacrifice a group demands of its members

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References

  1. Allport, G. W., & Ross, J. M. (1967). Personal religious orientation and prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 5(4), 432–443. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0021212
  2. Glock, C. Y., & Stark, R. (1965). Religion and society in tension. Rand McNally.
  3. Parboteeah, K. P., Hoegl, M., & Cullen, J. B. (2008). Ethics and religion: An empirical test of a multidimensional model. Journal of Business Ethics, 80(2), 387–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9439-8
  4. Iannaccone, L. R. (1992). Sacrifice and stigma: Reducing free-riding in cults, communes, and other collectives. Journal of Political Economy, 100(2), 271–291. https://doi.org/10.1086/261818

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