Faith Development Interviews offer great insight into people's ways of (non-)religious meaning-making, and of looking at their life and relationships. Ramona Bullik portrays nine longitudinal case studies in a mixed-methods design with narrative analysis granting insight into the developments and stabilities in the interviews. The focus on religious married couples allows to carve out the role of faith and the changing view on the spouse and the joint life. The portraits of three non-religious women show how meaning is made outside the frame of organized religion. Individual survey data are put into relation with a larger sample, answering the claim for idiothetic research.

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Ramona Bullik is a post-doctoral researcher at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, in the Center for the Interdisciplinary Research in Religion and Society (CIRRuS). Her research focuses on narrative identity, specializing in religious narrative identity over the adult lifespan. With a background in linguistics, she is especially interested in argumentation strategies and ways of autobiographical reasoning. One main focus in her work is the religiosity of women and intercultural comparison of German and US-American religiosities and worldviews.