Research Projects

Internat. Partners

Manual Download

Faith Development Research Network

The Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion hosts empirical research projects using biographical-analytical instruments to investigate the broad range of religious orientations represented in contemporary culture. While focussing on the religious landscape in Germany, research in the Center engages in cross-cultural comparison, especially with the U.S.A., but also with immigrants' cultures of origin, such as Turkey. We have developed, tested and continue to develop research designs for biographical research in religion - with special attention to instuments for analyzing faith development.

The web site of the Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion has moved. Most of its pages have been integrated into the web site of the Research Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion and Society (CIRRuS) at Bielefeld University.

Please click here or on the following icon to get to the new web site.

We would like to announce our new book, scheduled to appear in November 2008 wich presents the results of our Bielefeld-Based Cross-Cultural Study of Deconversion:

Heinz Streib / Ralph W. Hood, Jr. / Barbara Keller / Rosina-Martha Csöff / Christopher F. Silver:

Deconversion. Qualitative and Quantitative Results from Cross-Cultural Research in Germany and the United States of America

with a Foreword by James T. Richardson, Research in Contemporary Religion, Vol. 5, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008, 264 Pages.

The Bielefeld-based Cross-cultural Deconversion Project is presented on our CIRRuS web site in some detail: we give and overview, summarize qualitative and quantitative results, the methods and the research team.