An Explicit Request for Minitheories in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Autor:	Daniel N. McIntosh, Taylor Newton
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Scientific progress Scale (chemistry) Tying Spirituality Psychology of religion Religious studies Context (language use) Grand theory Sociology Social psychology General Psychology Epistemology
Zdroj:	International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. 23:261-270
ISSN:	1532-7582 1050-8619
Popis:	Minitheories aim to understand relatively specific phenomena, in contrast to larger scale or grand theories that aim to be comprehensive, inclusive theories of the psychology of religion. By focusing on more narrow phenomena or questions, minitheories allow clearer delineation of concepts, facilitate attention to questions that drive interest in the psychology of religion and enhance the applicability of the findings, support investigation of diverse topics, accelerate scientific progress, and help the psychology of religion connect with other areas of psychology. Risks of a minitheory approach include dispersion of effort, hobbling development of promising grand theories, generating a disconnected hodgepodge of findings, and deemphasizing the importance of theory. The advantages of minitheories can be strengthened and the risks decreased by explicitly tying each study to the larger intellectual and theoretical context, intentionally connecting minitheory-driven studies to each other, and valuing theoreti...
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