Tuesday, February 10, 2004
NCLS to probe 'I'm spiritual not religious' sentiment
NCLS joins international research team to study spirituality
"I am not religious, but I am a spiritual person" is an increasingly common sentiment. NCLS Research is joining an international team of highly regarded researchers with a proposal to map religiosity and wider spirituality in Australia, United States and the United Kingdom in 2005.
Spiritual options are far more diverse than a generation ago. NCLS Research is keen to better understand the full spectrum of spirituality.
This project proposes to classify the different strands of spirituality that people are pursuing in Australia, United States and the United Kingdom. A second objective is to see what values are associated with the different forms of contemporary religion and spirituality. The project also hopes to build a simple tool to more regularly measure this phenomenon in the future.
NCLS Research is a joint project of the Uniting Church NSW Board of Mission, ANGLICARE (Diocese of Sydney) and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
Some 7200 congregations in 19 denominations across Australia were involved in the 2001 National Church Life Survey. NCLS Research also draws from surveys of the wider community and the national census to provide resources to assist Australian churches in mission.
For more information contact: Dr Ruth Powell, NCLS Research: (02) 8267 4394, Fax: (02) 9267 7316, info@ncls.org.au, www.ncls.org.au
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