Demmrich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 40770 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Demmrich |
| APELLIDO | Demmrich |
| FIRMA | DEMMRICH |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9362-0441 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Resentment as an affective foundation of radicalization
Resentment refers to an affective state characterized by entrenched feelings of grievance. Negative social experiences, such as discrimination, are detached from their concrete contexts of origin and acquire a self-sustaining dynamic. This process gives rise to victimhood narratives that devalue attempts to improve one’s situation, inhibit critical self-reflection, and externalize guilt and responsibility onto powerful enemy images. The central h…
Entitativity as a moderator? A brief report unraveling the relations between deprivation, fundamentalism, and radicalization
The reactivity hypothesis posits that individuals who perceive deprivation, often in the form of discrimination, may be more inclined to adopt a fundamentalist worldview and may even become more susceptible to radicalization as a reaction to these feelings of deprivation. The Uncertainty-Identity Theory posits entitativity as a moderator between deprivation and fundamentalism and radicalization, respectively. In a questionnaire study conducted on…
Antisemitism among Muslims in Germany before and after October 7, 2023
October 7, 2023 is regarded as the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Shoah and marks a historical turning point. Since then, the repercussions of this terrorist attack and the subsequent Hamas-Israel war have been intensely debated. Antisemitic and violence-glorifying incidents in certain Muslim-migrant milieus have triggered emotionally charged debates on so-called “Muslim antisemitism.” However, little is known so far about the broader impac…
Religious fundamentalism and radicalization
The reactivity hypothesis posits that individuals who are, or perceive themselves to be, deprived tend to develop a fundamentalist worldview and/or are more likely to (further) radicalize. In the present study, however, we predicted that individuals who feel less deprived would exhibit a stronger fundamentalist worldview and/or radicalized attitudes in a political context characterized by polarization driven by leaders or institutions such as gov…
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany
This study represents the first German-wide investigation of Islamic theology and religious education students. We examined how these prospective multipliers approach Islam in a reform-oriented manner. It was also asked whether study motivation, representation by Islamic associations, segregation, value orientations, enemy images, as well as fundamentalism and Islamism determine reform orientation. An online questionnaire was completed by N = 252…
Studying Religiosity Beyond (Western) Christianity
Over recent decades, empirical research on religion has increasingly criticized its primary focus on Western Christianity. This paper has two aims: Firstly, it addresses challenges in applying ‘Western’ empirical research on religion to non-Western contexts (samples, measurement, results and discussion). Secondly, it highlights the convergent approach, bridging the gap between the perceived dichotomy of cultural universalism and cultural relativi…
Love Thy Neighbor
Amidst increasing globalization and religious diversity, acknowledging and embracing openness towards religious and/or cultural others has become crucial for societal cohesion and international relations. Theological scholars, holding significant potential in mitigating inter-religious and intercultural prejudices, can play a pivotal role in addressing this challenge. However, it is acknowledged that theologians themselves may harbor such biases.…
The Variety of Religiosities in Contemporary Turkey
The topic of religiosity in Turkey is often restricted to studies of secularization or fundamentalism. However, new religious phenomena, especially deism, are now drawing much attention in Turkey, yet most studies are focusing on small samples. Our study widens this view by presenting questionnaire data on a variety of religious self-assessment categories derived from a representative quota sample in relationship to sociodemographic and other rel…
Religious Fundamentalism
Muslims in Europe face reservations due to the association of Islam with fundamentalism and extremism. Our study aims to use a new concept of fundamentalism and new data to identify factors that correlate with fundamentalism, and to investigate how far these attitudes are associated with the acceptance of violence. Fundamentalism is defined as an attitude characterized by the claim to exclusive truth, to superiority over all other positions, to t…
Effects of religious intermittent dry fasting on religious experience and mindfulness
Ritual
Revisiting the Religious Openness Hypothesis in a Migration Context
The religious openness hypothesis, which states that religious traditions have the potential to integrate faith with intellect, is examined in this study within a migration context for the first time. Based on two lines of research, our central question is whether the sociological context or the Islamic tradition per se explains the (in)compatibility of faith and intellect orientation and their relation to psychological openness. Religious openne…
Kurdish, Turkish, German? Identificative integration of Kurds in Germany
Kurds have often been labelled a disruptive faction within German society by the media and in several studies. However, many studies have a self-identified weakness in the form of radical or small samples that do not adequately represent the Kurdish majority. The present study is the first to be on a German-wide sample of migrants originating from Turkey and their descendants (N = 1201), twelve per cent of which are Kurdish. We ask how their ethn…
Eine religionspsychologische Perspektive auf Besessenheit
Der Psychologe Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880–1949) gilt mit seinem Interesse an religiösen Erfahrungen als einer der Pioniere der Kultur- und Religionspsychologie. Neben Glossolalie (Zungenrede) und parapsychologischen Phänomenen (z. B. Geistererscheinungen) behandelte er ganz zentral Besessenheitszustände. In seinen früheren Werken geht er – in Anlehnung an französische Psychopathologen wie Pierre Janet – von einer Persönlichkeitsspaltun…
What Do Seculars Understand as ‘Spiritual’? A Replication of Eisenmann et al.’s Semantics of Spirituality
Eisenmann et al. developed a system consisting of forty-four categories to code the definitions of spirituality in samples from the USA and Germany. We tested this category system in a sample of seculars in Switzerland. All original categories were applicable to the individual understandings of spirituality in our sample. Only two additional categories of marginal relevance were formed. This result confirms the validity of the category system. Fu…
Bullying Experience among Adolescents with a Turkish Migration Background in Germany
Bullying is a worldwide problem that has serious effects on the mental health of both victims and perpetrators. Although bullying seems related to increasing globalization and migration, it has seldom been researched in this context. This exploratory study examined bullying experiences and related depressive symptoms among a sample of adolescents with a Turkish migration background in a German school context ( N = 103, 56.7% female, M Age = 16.17…
How to Measure Baha'i Religiosity
The concepts and measurements in psychology of religion often adhere to its Judeo-Christian roots, which causes problems when measuring non-Christian religiosity. In this paper, two successive studies are presented. The first study applied Huber's CRS-15, while the second study used the CRSi-20. Both samples consisted of believers of the non-Christian, Abrahamic Baha'i religion in Germany. In the first study, in which N = 472 participated (MAge =…
End Time and Emotions
The aim of this qualitative interview study was to explore the specific expectations that N = 29 Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) had of end times and paradise using an emotion regulation perspective. Beyond the general eschatological doctrine of JWs, the participants were encouraged to report their individual beliefs and connected emotions. Thematic analysis identified forecasting of life in paradise in the form of a continuation of physical life but w…
Centrality of Religiosity, Schizotypy, and Human Values
Previous research has established a reliable link between religiosity and schizotypy as well as schizophrenia. However, past research mainly measured religiosity as a one-dimensional construct. In the present research (N = 189), we aimed to get a better understanding of the religiosity-schizotypy link by measuring religiosity using Huber's five-dimensional model of Centrality of Religiosity, while also testing for curvilinear relations and potent…
Multidimensionality of Spirituality
This study examines the multidimensionality of spirituality by comparing the applicability of two models-the five-dimensional model of religiosity by Huber that we have extended with a sixth dimension of ethics and the three-dimensional spirituality model by Bucher. This qualitative study applied a semi-structured interview guideline of spirituality to a stratified sample of N = 48 secular individuals in Switzerland. To test these two models, fre…
Personal Rituals in Adolescence
This study examines the meaning of personal rituals for the adolescent identity development and emotion regulation. Both are ritual functions and can be characterized as adolescent developmental tasks. However, there is no consistent pattern in previous research to explain the processes for how identity is formed and emotions are regulated during the performance of personal rituals. Therefore, a questionnaire study among 410 (182 male) adolescent…
Body Image and Religiosity among Veiled and Non-Veiled Turkish Women
The positive relationship between body image and religiosity, as found in Christian samples, is often explained in terms of a moderate dress style of highly religious women. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about the relationship between body image, religiosity, and dress style among female Muslims who live in Muslim-majority countries. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory questionnaire study among 59 female Muslims between 17 and 46 year…
Dissociation in Religion and Spirituality
Following Schumaker’s (1995) theory that dissociation is induced by religious rituals, this study assesses the relation between religious ritual and depersonalization, including the influence of the God image on this relation. The Scale for Assessment of Depersonalization Experiences (Wolfradt, 2003), the Religious Ritual Scale (Maranell, 1974) and the God Image Inventory (Lawrence, 1997) were administered to 156 German adults from different reli…
Multidimensionality of Spirituality
This study examines the multidimensionality of spirituality by comparing the applicability of two models-the five-dimensional model of religiosity by Huber that we have extended with a sixth dimension of ethics and the three-dimensional spirituality model by Bucher. This qualitative study applied a semi-structured interview guideline of spirituality to a stratified sample of N = 48 secular individuals in Switzerland. To test these two models, fre…
How to Measure Baha'i Religiosity
The concepts and measurements in psychology of religion often adhere to its Judeo-Christian roots, which causes problems when measuring non-Christian religiosity. In this paper, two successive studies are presented. The first study applied Huber's CRS-15, while the second study used the CRSi-20. Both samples consisted of believers of the non-Christian, Abrahamic Baha'i religion in Germany. In the first study, in which N = 472 participated (MAge =…
Dissociation in Religion and Spirituality
Following Schumaker’s (1995) theory that dissociation is induced by religious rituals, this study assesses the relation between religious ritual and depersonalization, including the influence of the God image on this relation. The Scale for Assessment of Depersonalization Experiences (Wolfradt, 2003), the Religious Ritual Scale (Maranell, 1974) and the God Image Inventory (Lawrence, 1997) were administered to 156 German adults from different reli…
Body Image and Religiosity among Veiled and Non-Veiled Turkish Women
The positive relationship between body image and religiosity, as found in Christian samples, is often explained in terms of a moderate dress style of highly religious women. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about the relationship between body image, religiosity, and dress style among female Muslims who live in Muslim-majority countries. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory questionnaire study among 59 female Muslims between 17 and 46 year…
Personal Rituals in Adolescence
This study examines the meaning of personal rituals for the adolescent identity development and emotion regulation. Both are ritual functions and can be characterized as adolescent developmental tasks. However, there is no consistent pattern in previous research to explain the processes for how identity is formed and emotions are regulated during the performance of personal rituals. Therefore, a questionnaire study among 410 (182 male) adolescent…
End Time and Emotions
The aim of this qualitative interview study was to explore the specific expectations that N = 29 Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) had of end times and paradise using an emotion regulation perspective. Beyond the general eschatological doctrine of JWs, the participants were encouraged to report their individual beliefs and connected emotions. Thematic analysis identified forecasting of life in paradise in the form of a continuation of physical life but w…
Centrality of Religiosity, Schizotypy, and Human Values
Previous research has established a reliable link between religiosity and schizotypy as well as schizophrenia. However, past research mainly measured religiosity as a one-dimensional construct. In the present research (N = 189), we aimed to get a better understanding of the religiosity-schizotypy link by measuring religiosity using Huber's five-dimensional model of Centrality of Religiosity, while also testing for curvilinear relations and potent…
Multidimensionality of Spirituality
This study examines the multidimensionality of spirituality by comparing the applicability of two models-the five-dimensional model of religiosity by Huber that we have extended with a sixth dimension of ethics and the three-dimensional spirituality model by Bucher. This qualitative study applied a semi-structured interview guideline of spirituality to a stratified sample of N = 48 secular individuals in Switzerland. To test these two models, fre…
Eine religionspsychologische Perspektive auf Besessenheit
Der Psychologe Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880–1949) gilt mit seinem Interesse an religiösen Erfahrungen als einer der Pioniere der Kultur- und Religionspsychologie. Neben Glossolalie (Zungenrede) und parapsychologischen Phänomenen (z. B. Geistererscheinungen) behandelte er ganz zentral Besessenheitszustände. In seinen früheren Werken geht er – in Anlehnung an französische Psychopathologen wie Pierre Janet – von einer Persönlichkeitsspaltun…
What Do Seculars Understand as ‘Spiritual’? A Replication of Eisenmann et al.’s Semantics of Spirituality
Eisenmann et al. developed a system consisting of forty-four categories to code the definitions of spirituality in samples from the USA and Germany. We tested this category system in a sample of seculars in Switzerland. All original categories were applicable to the individual understandings of spirituality in our sample. Only two additional categories of marginal relevance were formed. This result confirms the validity of the category system. Fu…
Bullying Experience among Adolescents with a Turkish Migration Background in Germany
Bullying is a worldwide problem that has serious effects on the mental health of both victims and perpetrators. Although bullying seems related to increasing globalization and migration, it has seldom been researched in this context. This exploratory study examined bullying experiences and related depressive symptoms among a sample of adolescents with a Turkish migration background in a German school context ( N = 103, 56.7% female, M Age = 16.17…
How to Measure Baha'i Religiosity
The concepts and measurements in psychology of religion often adhere to its Judeo-Christian roots, which causes problems when measuring non-Christian religiosity. In this paper, two successive studies are presented. The first study applied Huber's CRS-15, while the second study used the CRSi-20. Both samples consisted of believers of the non-Christian, Abrahamic Baha'i religion in Germany. In the first study, in which N = 472 participated (MAge =…
Kurdish, Turkish, German? Identificative integration of Kurds in Germany
Kurds have often been labelled a disruptive faction within German society by the media and in several studies. However, many studies have a self-identified weakness in the form of radical or small samples that do not adequately represent the Kurdish majority. The present study is the first to be on a German-wide sample of migrants originating from Turkey and their descendants (N = 1201), twelve per cent of which are Kurdish. We ask how their ethn…
Revisiting the Religious Openness Hypothesis in a Migration Context
The religious openness hypothesis, which states that religious traditions have the potential to integrate faith with intellect, is examined in this study within a migration context for the first time. Based on two lines of research, our central question is whether the sociological context or the Islamic tradition per se explains the (in)compatibility of faith and intellect orientation and their relation to psychological openness. Religious openne…
Effects of religious intermittent dry fasting on religious experience and mindfulness
Ritual
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany
This study represents the first German-wide investigation of Islamic theology and religious education students. We examined how these prospective multipliers approach Islam in a reform-oriented manner. It was also asked whether study motivation, representation by Islamic associations, segregation, value orientations, enemy images, as well as fundamentalism and Islamism determine reform orientation. An online questionnaire was completed by N = 252…
Studying Religiosity Beyond (Western) Christianity
Over recent decades, empirical research on religion has increasingly criticized its primary focus on Western Christianity. This paper has two aims: Firstly, it addresses challenges in applying ‘Western’ empirical research on religion to non-Western contexts (samples, measurement, results and discussion). Secondly, it highlights the convergent approach, bridging the gap between the perceived dichotomy of cultural universalism and cultural relativi…
Love Thy Neighbor
Amidst increasing globalization and religious diversity, acknowledging and embracing openness towards religious and/or cultural others has become crucial for societal cohesion and international relations. Theological scholars, holding significant potential in mitigating inter-religious and intercultural prejudices, can play a pivotal role in addressing this challenge. However, it is acknowledged that theologians themselves may harbor such biases.…
The Variety of Religiosities in Contemporary Turkey
The topic of religiosity in Turkey is often restricted to studies of secularization or fundamentalism. However, new religious phenomena, especially deism, are now drawing much attention in Turkey, yet most studies are focusing on small samples. Our study widens this view by presenting questionnaire data on a variety of religious self-assessment categories derived from a representative quota sample in relationship to sociodemographic and other rel…
Religious Fundamentalism
Muslims in Europe face reservations due to the association of Islam with fundamentalism and extremism. Our study aims to use a new concept of fundamentalism and new data to identify factors that correlate with fundamentalism, and to investigate how far these attitudes are associated with the acceptance of violence. Fundamentalism is defined as an attitude characterized by the claim to exclusive truth, to superiority over all other positions, to t…
Entitativity as a moderator? A brief report unraveling the relations between deprivation, fundamentalism, and radicalization
The reactivity hypothesis posits that individuals who perceive deprivation, often in the form of discrimination, may be more inclined to adopt a fundamentalist worldview and may even become more susceptible to radicalization as a reaction to these feelings of deprivation. The Uncertainty-Identity Theory posits entitativity as a moderator between deprivation and fundamentalism and radicalization, respectively. In a questionnaire study conducted on…
Antisemitism among Muslims in Germany before and after October 7, 2023
October 7, 2023 is regarded as the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Shoah and marks a historical turning point. Since then, the repercussions of this terrorist attack and the subsequent Hamas-Israel war have been intensely debated. Antisemitic and violence-glorifying incidents in certain Muslim-migrant milieus have triggered emotionally charged debates on so-called “Muslim antisemitism.” However, little is known so far about the broader impac…
Religious fundamentalism and radicalization
The reactivity hypothesis posits that individuals who are, or perceive themselves to be, deprived tend to develop a fundamentalist worldview and/or are more likely to (further) radicalize. In the present study, however, we predicted that individuals who feel less deprived would exhibit a stronger fundamentalist worldview and/or radicalized attitudes in a political context characterized by polarization driven by leaders or institutions such as gov…
Resentment as an affective foundation of radicalization
Resentment refers to an affective state characterized by entrenched feelings of grievance. Negative social experiences, such as discrimination, are detached from their concrete contexts of origin and acquire a self-sustaining dynamic. This process gives rise to victimhood narratives that devalue attempts to improve one’s situation, inhibit critical self-reflection, and externalize guilt and responsibility onto powerful enemy images. The central h…
Psychology (15 obras) · Philosophy (12 obras) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (12 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (8 obras) · Religious studies (8 obras) · Religiosity (7 obras) · Turkish (5 obras)