Abstract
A study of the biblical texts allows a classification of religious coping strategies according to their phenomenology: the preventive strategy, the “quest for meaning” strategy and the “prayer” strategy. In the first part, several behaviour patterns are assigned to each of these strategies. The second part of the article introduces two empirically deduced conceptualisations of religious coping behaviours. The first one refers to a three-dimensional concept ascribing the responsibility for the solution of the problem either to the person, to God or to both of them. The second one postulates two dimensions: the person's religious beliefs and religious relations with God and the religious satisfaction as part of a general satisfaction with life.
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