Shaping Attitudes toward Church in a Time of Coronavirus: Exploring the Effects of Personal, Psychological, Social, and Theological Factors among Church of England Clergy and Laity

IF 1.4 0 RELIGION Journal of Empirical Theology Pub Date : 2021-10-28 DOI:10.1163/15709256-12341423
A. Village, L. Francis
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This paper reports on the effect of personal, psychological, social, and theological factors in shaping attitudes toward church buildings, the lockup of churches, and the trajectory into virtual church among 4,374 clergy and lay people from the Church of England during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Data from an online survey were used to create three scales, Pro Church Buildings, Anti Church Lockup, and Pro Virtual Church, which were shown to have adequate internal consistency reliability. Five sets of predictor variables were tested using hierarchical multiple regression: personal factors (sex and age), psychological factors (psychological type scores), social location (ordination status, education, geographic location), theological stance (modern versus traditional worship, liberal versus conservative doctrinal belief, liberal versus conservative views on morality), and Church tradition (Anglo-Catholic, Broad Church, Evangelical, and Charismaticism). The three scales were predicted by slightly different sets of variables, but in each case personal factors and psychological factors retained some predictive power after controlling for other sorts of factors. The results suggest that those most likely to embrace a future with a significant role for church life online are women (rather than men), the middle-aged (rather than younger or older people), intuitive (rather than sensing) and feeling (rather than thinking) psychological types, clergy (rather than laity), those living outside the inner cities, those who prefer modern (rather than traditional) forms of worship, those with more liberal (rather than conservative) views on doctrine and morality, and those who embrace Evangelical and Charismatic (rather than Anglo-Catholic) church traditions.
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在冠状病毒时期塑造对教会的态度:探索个人、心理、社会和神学因素对英国教会神职人员和俗人的影响
本文报告了在2020年英国新冠肺炎首次封锁期间,英国教会4374名神职人员和非神职人员对个人、心理、社会和神学因素在塑造对教堂建筑的态度、教堂的封锁以及进入虚拟教堂的轨迹方面的影响。一项在线调查的数据被用于创建三个量表,即亲教堂建筑、反教堂封锁和亲虚拟教堂,这些量表被证明具有足够的内部一致性可靠性。使用分层多元回归测试了五组预测变量:个人因素(性别和年龄)、心理因素(心理类型得分)、社会位置(圣职地位、教育、地理位置)、神学立场(现代与传统崇拜、自由与保守的教义信仰、自由与保守性的道德观),和教会传统(盎格鲁天主教、大教堂、福音派和魅力主义)。这三个量表是由略有不同的变量组预测的,但在每种情况下,个人因素和心理因素在控制了其他类型的因素后都保留了一定的预测能力。研究结果表明,那些最有可能在网上教会生活中扮演重要角色的人是女性(而不是男性)、中年人(而不是年轻人或老年人)、直觉(而不是感知)和感觉(而不是思考)心理类型、神职人员(而不是俗人)、生活在市中心以外的人,那些喜欢现代(而不是传统)崇拜形式的人,那些对教义和道德持更自由(而不是保守)观点的人,以及那些信奉福音派和魅力派(而不是英国天主教)教会传统的人。
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