A summary of a paper examining the instruments used to measure religiosity, and what they are in fact measuring.
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Original source Problems in Measuring Religiosity in Arabic Scholarship
Paper · Journal of Psychological Studies
Summarised by Muhammad Abu Zayd
The paper reviews the most widely used instruments and concludes that most of them measure outward behaviour and leave out the aspect that is supposed to be the core of the concept.
The author proposes a distinction between three levels, with an explicit reservation about whether the third is open to quantitative measurement at all.
