ASSESSING THE CURRENT STATE OF
RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL MEASUREMENT
Measurement’s Boon and Bane
The success of the measurement paradigm, Gorsuch (1984) argued, was both a boon and
a bane to the psychology of religion. It is clear that the ability to reliably measure is a key
indicator of a developing field’s health and maturity. Moreover, instruments produced
during the psychology of religion’s age of measurement were in Gorsuch’s words “reasonably
effective” and “available in sufficient variety for most any task in the psychology of
religion” (p. 234). At the least, the fact that psychologists of religion had a long-standing
concern with measurement issues suggests that continued attention will (and should) be
devoted to measurement issues, as noted in several chapters within this volume (e.g.,
Paloutzian & Park, Chapter 1, this volume; Zinnbauer & Pargament, Chapter 2, this vol-
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