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Afterword: some reflections on numbers in the study of religion

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Diskus: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions
Volume
16
Pages
pp. 116–124
Publisher
British Association for the Study of Religions
ISSN
9678948

Summary

Religious adherence can and should be quantified, but there are serious problems of validity and reliability in measuring religion. Sometimes the problems themselves are informative about the nature of identity and its significance or insignificance. Understanding the difficulties with numbers helps us to understand religion itself.

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