Abstract
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality that has been applied yet in more than 100 studies in sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious studies in 25 countries with in total more than 100,000 participants. It measures the general intensities of five theoretical defined core dimensions of religiosity. The dimensions of public practice, private practice, religious experience, ideology and the intellectual dimensions can together be considered as representative for the total of religious live. From a psychological perspective, the five core-dimensions can be seen as channels or modes in which personal religious constructs are shaped and activated. The activation of religious constructs in personality can be regarded as a valid measure of the degree of religiosity of an individual. The CRS thus derives from the five dimensional measures a combined measure of the centrality of religiosity which is suitable also for interreligious studies. The paper presents the theoretical basis and rationale of its construction with different versions of the CRS in 20 languages with norm values for 21 countries. Furthermore, the paper presents versions of different extension and describes specific modifications that were developed for studies with Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims.
Highlights
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality
The centrality scale takes an inverse approach: It asks for the general intensities of theoretical defined core dimensions of religiosity which can be considered as representative for the total of religious live and derives from them a combined measure of the centrality of religiosity
The intellectual and ideological dimensions refer to thought, the dimensions of public and private practice refer to action, and the experiential dimension refers to experience, emotion and perception
Summary
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality. It has been developed by Huber [1,2,3,4,5] and has yet been applied in more than 100 studies in sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious studies in 25 countries with in total more than 100,000 participants. The present paper aims to close this desideratum It consists of four parts: first we introduce the basic ideas and construction principles of the CRS, second we sketch the model of religiosity on which the CRS is based on.
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