Barbara Keller
Biographic Data
| ID | 6213946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Keller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Keller |
| SIGNATURE | KELLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bielefeld University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0871-0720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiating individual and social religious and worldview identities in consecutive autobiographical interviews on faith development
This paper unfolds the concept of narrative identity with a focus on religion and worldview. Drawing on concepts like “master narratives”, “deep stories” and “cultural containers”, we capture how the social is understood and used in individual autobiographical reconstructions and fed back into social discourse, as people live their lives in changing times and places. Arguing for an interdisciplinary perspective, we take a closer look at how indiv…
Faith styles and perceptions of other faiths among Muslims
The positive role of religion in reducing prejudice has remained a neglected theme in Psychology of religion, concerning itself mostly with prejudice and fundamentalism. Recently, noting the absence of a positive antithesis to prejudice and fundamentalism, faith development theory presents xenosophia as going beyond mere tolerance to a creative engagement with other religious faiths to develop new insights and broaden one’s own worldview. The cur…
Profiling atheist world views in different cultural contexts
In the current study, we look at atheist or secular identities in different religious landscapes: In the U.S., the majority of the population indicates a belief in God. In West Germany, one third of the population reports no religious affiliation and a quarter identifies as â not religious,â and in East Germany, most of the population explicitly identifies as atheist. Drawing on atheist worldview and identity literature from multiple disciplines,…
Muslim Faith in Pakistan
Faith development theory has evolved as a prominent theoretical perspective during the past three decades to explain different ways of relating to religious beliefs and worldviews. Recent revisions of the theory have elaborated on these characteristic ways as religious styles namely the fundamentalist, mutual, individuative-systemic, and dialogical. The present study developed an Urdu version of its principal measure, i.e., Faith Development Inte…
Subjective definitions of spirituality and religion
This paper shows how corpus methods can be usefully employed in the field of psychology of religion in triangulation with other empirical instruments. Current international surveys mirror an on-going transformation in subjective meanings in religious discourse cumulating in the question: what do people actually mean when they describe themselves as spiritual, religious or neither? The paper presents results of a cross-cultural study with 1,886 pa…
Rekonstruktion Von Vergangenheit
Faith Development, Religious Styles and Biographical Narratives
Narrative study of religious lives has formed part of numerous projects at the Bielefeld Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion. An essential instrument in our designs, which mostly combine qualitative and quantitative methods, is the Faith Development Interview (FDI). In response to longstanding criticism its cognitive structural framework has been revised in respect of styles and schemata. The religious styles perspec…
The Semantics of ‘Spirituality’ and Related Self-Identifications
Culturally different connotations of basic concepts challenge the comparative study of religion. Do persons in Germany or in the United States refer to the same concepts when talking about ‘spirituality’ and ‘religion’? Does it make a difference how they identify themselves? The Bielefeld-Chattanooga Cross-Cultural Study on ‘Spirituality’ includes a semantic differential approach for the comparison of self-identified “neither religious nor spirit…
Deconversion
Streib H, Hood RW, Keller B, Csöff R-M, Silver CF. Deconversion: qualitative and quantitative results from cross-cultural research in Germany and the United States of America . Research in contemporary religion. Vol 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht; 2009.
The Distinction between Authoritarianism and Fundamentalism in three Cultures
The goals of the study were to examine whether fundamentalism and authoritarianism could be distinguished by the Big Five factors of personality in American, Romanian and German samples, and to determine whether fundamentalism and authoritarianism could be distinguished by factor analysis in any of the three cultures. The results in all three cultures indicate that fundamentalism and authoritarianism have virtually identical personality correlate…
The Variety of Deconversion Experiences
This article presents an outline of historical and situational arguments which suggest a focus on deconversion, an outline of conversion research and its consequences for deconversion, and a discussion of extant empirical research on deconversion. The discussion then focuses on the conceptualization of deconversion and compiles the features from which a comprehensive concept of deconversion may emerge. The core features of the deconversion concep…
Memories of War and C onflict
Rekonstruktion von Vergangenheit
Rekonstruktion von Vergangenheit
Determinants of attachment and mastery motivation in infants born to adolescent mothers
Thirty mothers aged 14–19 and their approximately one-year-old babies participated in this study of the influence of the social support network and stress on infant-mother attachment and on mastery motivation. During the home visit the mothers completed a demographic questionnaire, the Psychosocial Kinship Inventory and the Life Events Stress Scale. In the laboratory the infants' mastery motivation and infant-mother attachment were assessed. A di…
Subjective definitions of spirituality and religion
This paper shows how corpus methods can be usefully employed in the field of psychology of religion in triangulation with other empirical instruments. Current international surveys mirror an on-going transformation in subjective meanings in religious discourse cumulating in the question: what do people actually mean when they describe themselves as spiritual, religious or neither? The paper presents results of a cross-cultural study with 1,886 pa…
Determinants of attachment and mastery motivation in infants born to adolescent mothers
Thirty mothers aged 14–19 and their approximately one-year-old babies participated in this study of the influence of the social support network and stress on infant-mother attachment and on mastery motivation. During the home visit the mothers completed a demographic questionnaire, the Psychosocial Kinship Inventory and the Life Events Stress Scale. In the laboratory the infants' mastery motivation and infant-mother attachment were assessed. A di…
Rekonstruktion von Vergangenheit
Rekonstruktion von Vergangenheit
Memories of War and C onflict
The Variety of Deconversion Experiences
This article presents an outline of historical and situational arguments which suggest a focus on deconversion, an outline of conversion research and its consequences for deconversion, and a discussion of extant empirical research on deconversion. The discussion then focuses on the conceptualization of deconversion and compiles the features from which a comprehensive concept of deconversion may emerge. The core features of the deconversion concep…
The Distinction between Authoritarianism and Fundamentalism in three Cultures
The goals of the study were to examine whether fundamentalism and authoritarianism could be distinguished by the Big Five factors of personality in American, Romanian and German samples, and to determine whether fundamentalism and authoritarianism could be distinguished by factor analysis in any of the three cultures. The results in all three cultures indicate that fundamentalism and authoritarianism have virtually identical personality correlate…
Deconversion
Streib H, Hood RW, Keller B, Csöff R-M, Silver CF. Deconversion: qualitative and quantitative results from cross-cultural research in Germany and the United States of America . Research in contemporary religion. Vol 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht; 2009.
Rekonstruktion Von Vergangenheit
Faith Development, Religious Styles and Biographical Narratives
Narrative study of religious lives has formed part of numerous projects at the Bielefeld Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion. An essential instrument in our designs, which mostly combine qualitative and quantitative methods, is the Faith Development Interview (FDI). In response to longstanding criticism its cognitive structural framework has been revised in respect of styles and schemata. The religious styles perspec…
The Semantics of ‘Spirituality’ and Related Self-Identifications
Culturally different connotations of basic concepts challenge the comparative study of religion. Do persons in Germany or in the United States refer to the same concepts when talking about ‘spirituality’ and ‘religion’? Does it make a difference how they identify themselves? The Bielefeld-Chattanooga Cross-Cultural Study on ‘Spirituality’ includes a semantic differential approach for the comparison of self-identified “neither religious nor spirit…
Subjective definitions of spirituality and religion
This paper shows how corpus methods can be usefully employed in the field of psychology of religion in triangulation with other empirical instruments. Current international surveys mirror an on-going transformation in subjective meanings in religious discourse cumulating in the question: what do people actually mean when they describe themselves as spiritual, religious or neither? The paper presents results of a cross-cultural study with 1,886 pa…
Muslim Faith in Pakistan
Faith development theory has evolved as a prominent theoretical perspective during the past three decades to explain different ways of relating to religious beliefs and worldviews. Recent revisions of the theory have elaborated on these characteristic ways as religious styles namely the fundamentalist, mutual, individuative-systemic, and dialogical. The present study developed an Urdu version of its principal measure, i.e., Faith Development Inte…
Profiling atheist world views in different cultural contexts
In the current study, we look at atheist or secular identities in different religious landscapes: In the U.S., the majority of the population indicates a belief in God. In West Germany, one third of the population reports no religious affiliation and a quarter identifies as â not religious,â and in East Germany, most of the population explicitly identifies as atheist. Drawing on atheist worldview and identity literature from multiple disciplines,…
Faith styles and perceptions of other faiths among Muslims
The positive role of religion in reducing prejudice has remained a neglected theme in Psychology of religion, concerning itself mostly with prejudice and fundamentalism. Recently, noting the absence of a positive antithesis to prejudice and fundamentalism, faith development theory presents xenosophia as going beyond mere tolerance to a creative engagement with other religious faiths to develop new insights and broaden one’s own worldview. The cur…
Negotiating individual and social religious and worldview identities in consecutive autobiographical interviews on faith development
This paper unfolds the concept of narrative identity with a focus on religion and worldview. Drawing on concepts like “master narratives”, “deep stories” and “cultural containers”, we capture how the social is understood and used in individual autobiographical reconstructions and fed back into social discourse, as people live their lives in changing times and places. Arguing for an interdisciplinary perspective, we take a closer look at how indiv…
Psychology (9 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Faith (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works)