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Especially in preparation for the deconversion project which included, in
its first project phase, new religious and fundamentalist deconverts, research
cooperation with international respected researchers in the study of contemporary
religious orientations have been reconfirmed and newly established. But
also in the development of research methods and evaluation procedures, Iam
grateful for such excellent partnerships.
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The cooperation with James W. Fowler (Emeritus and
formerly C.H. Candler Professor of Theology and Human Development
and Director of the Center for Research in Faith and Moral Development
at Emory University, Atlanta and of the Center for Ethics at Emory)
has begun with Heinz Streib's Ph.D. project at Emory in the 1980s.
For the ongoing research in Bielefeld, this cooperation has important
and very productive also in the more recent past: we co-author the
3rd edition of the Manual for Faith Development Research
and have communicated much about the deconversion research. |
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Especially for the field of quantitative analysis
of contemporary religious orientations, Ralph
W. Hood Jr., Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga, is an internationally respected expert. He is the
advisor of Christopher Silver, one of our field researchers in the
USA in the NRM deconvension project. More recently, we co-operate
in scale development for research on fundamentalism. |
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Cooperation in the field of research on New Religious
Movements has also been established with James
T. Richardson, Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies at
the University of Nevada at Reno, one of the international experts
on New Religious groups and organizations. Richardson has taken, in
his research, a biographical-analytical, sociological and legal perspective.
He is advisor for the NRM deconversion project. |
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Newton Malony, Senior Professor of Psychology in the Graduate
School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena is a
respected scholar in psychology of religion and NRM research. He is
the advisor of Rob Swanson who was one of our field researchers in
the USA in the NRM deconvension project. |
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John Snarey, Professor of Human Development and
Ethics at Emory University has experiences in own research in faith
development projects and directs the dissertation of Andrea Green
who is one of our three field researchers in the USA in the NRM deconvension
project. |
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