Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- 1 What Is Faith? -- 1.1 Faith and Religion -- 1.2 Faith and Worldview -- 1.3 Styles of Faith: Options for the Construction of a Typology -- 1.4 Faith and Responsiveness -- 1.5 Styles of Faith in Various Aspects -- 1.6 Styles Are Not Stages -- 2 The Dynamics of Development in Faith -- 2.1 Does Faith Development Depend on Age? -- 2.2 What Causes the Emergence of Higher Faith Styles? -- 2.3 The Aim of Faith Development -- 2.4 The Dynamic Development of Faith in Terms of Perspective-Taking -- 3 Measurement: the Faith Development Interview -- 3.1 The Faith Development Interview as a Research Tool -- 3.2 Qualitative and Quantitative Research with FDI -- 4 Faith Development in the Mirror of Quantitative Results -- 4.1 Predictors for Faith Development -- 4.2 The Dynamics of Faith Development as Reflected in the Outcomes -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5 The Faith Styles Model—Perspectives on Future Research and Application -- 5.1 Deconversion and Faith Development -- 5.2 Classification of Religious Communities Using the Faith Styles Model -- 5.3 Ideologies—Viewed from the Faith Styles Perspective -- 5.4 Developing Faith in a World of Othering and Xenophobia -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

For the first time in the history of Semitic studies, this volume is devoted entirely to Modern South Arabian (MSA) as a unified linguistic and cultural entity. The three principal regions inhabited by MSA speakers—Mahra and Dhofar on the Arabian mainland, and the island of Soqotra—are comprehensively represented. The contributions span a broad thematic range, including cultural history, field sociology, and, above all, linguistics (both synchronic and diachronic), alongside the rich oral traditions of MSA-speaking communities.

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