Quest-religious orientation among church leaders signifies a style of leadership committed to religious explorations more than to religious certainties. For this study, we set out to explore the extent to which quest orientation among a sample of 1,265 religious church leaders who participated in the 2011 Australian National Church Life Survey was a function of psychological predisposition, conceptualized in terms of psychological type theory, or a function of distinctive forms of religious experience, conceptualized in terms of Happold’s (1963) model of mysticism. The data demonstrated that higher levels of mystical orientation were associated with psychological predisposition, involving extraversion, intuition, feeling, and perceiving. After controlling for sex, age, education, denominational groups, and psychological type, higher levels of mystical orientation were also associated with higher levels of quest-religious orientation. Mystical orientation partly mediated the effect of intuition on question orientation, but psychological preferences (for intuition and perceiving) and mystical orientation seemed independently to promote quest orientation. Thus, church leaders committed to religious explorations rather than to religious certainties seemed to have been shaped both by psychological predisposition and by distinctive forms of religious experience.

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澳大利亚教会领袖的探索宗教取向：心理倾向的功能还是对神秘体验的开放？

教会领袖的探索宗教取向意味着一种致力于宗教探索而非宗教确定性的领导风格。在这项研究中，我们着手探索在 1,265 名参加 2011 年澳大利亚全国教会生活调查的宗教教会领袖样本中的追求取向在多大程度上是心理倾向的函数，根据心理类型理论概念化，或独特形式的宗教体验的功能，根据 Happold (1963) 的神秘主义模型概念化。数据表明，较高水平的神秘主义倾向与心理倾向有关，包括外向性、直觉、感觉和感知。在控制了性别、年龄、教育程度、宗派群体和心理类型后，更高水平的神秘主义取向也与更高水平的追求宗教取向有关。神秘取向在一定程度上调节了直觉对问题取向的影响，但心理偏好（直觉和感知）和神秘取向似乎独立地促进了探索取向。因此，致力于宗教探索而不是宗教确定性的教会领袖似乎受到心理倾向和独特的宗教体验形式的影响。