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Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) Test

After 15 questions in about 3 minutes, the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) Test offers a snapshot of how religion features in your beliefs, experiences, thinking, and practices. Your result can help you reflect on the role religiosity plays in your worldview and everyday life.

Questions: 153 minutes

Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS): sample question card

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How the Scales are Structured

ExperienceE

Measures how often and how intensely a person reports experiences of contact with a higher reality in personal or collective contexts.

example score3/5

3/5Moderateexample score

1 – 2.1Low

2.2 – 3.9Moderate

4 – 5High

A score of 3 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting occasional or moderately intense religious experiences of contact with a higher reality.

Personal PracticePP

Personal Practice measures how often and how strongly a person engages in private religious activities such as prayer or meditation outside public rituals.

example score4/5

4/5Highexample score

1 – 2.1Low

2.2 – 3.9Moderate

4 – 5High

A score of 4 indicates high personal religious practice, suggesting private activities like prayer or meditation are a regular part of everyday life.

Public PracticePP

Public practice measures how often a person participates in shared religious rituals and community events.

example score3/5

3/5Moderateexample score

1 – 2.1Low

2.2 – 3.9Moderate

4 – 5High

A score of 3 indicates a moderate level of involvement in collective religious practices, suggesting occasional participation in community rituals or events.

IdeologicalI

Measures how strongly a person affirms and relies on beliefs about transcendent reality as part of their worldview.

example score3/5

3/5Moderateexample score

1 – 2.1Low

2.2 – 3.9Moderate

4 – 5High

A score of 3 indicates a moderate level of ideological religiosity, with religious beliefs playing a meaningful but not dominant role in the person’s worldview.

IntellectualI

Measures how often and how deeply a person reflects on religious topics and seeks or holds knowledge about religion, independent of affiliation.

example score3/5

3/5Moderateexample score

1 – 2Low

2.1 – 3.8Moderate

3.9 – 5High

A score of 3 indicates a moderate level of intellectual engagement with religious content, with occasional interest and reflection but not a consistently central focus.

Centrality of Religiosity ScaleCoRS

Measures how central religion is in a person’s life across beliefs, practices, and everyday experiences.

example score2/5

2/5Low centralityexample score

1 – 2Low centrality

2.1 – 3.9Moderate centrality

4 – 5High centrality

A score of 2 indicates low centrality, suggesting religion tends to play a more peripheral role in your daily thinking and behavior.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Religion-oriented seekers

41%OF USERS

People who want to understand how central faith is in their daily choices, values, and sense of meaning.

Psychology and counseling clients

34%OF USERS

Clients and practitioners who need a quick snapshot of how strongly religious beliefs and practices shape coping and identity.

Students and researchers

25%OF USERS

Students and academics using a short, standardized measure of religiosity for surveys, theses, or cross-cultural comparisons.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

ExperienceE

You?

Average3

Typical rangeTypical2.5 – 3.5

Possible1 – 5

Personal PracticePP

You?

Average2.7

Typical rangeTypical2 – 3.4

Possible1 – 5

Public practicePp

You?

Average2.7

Typical rangeTypical2.1 – 3.4

Possible1 – 5

IdeologicalI

You?

Average3.1

Typical rangeTypical2.6 – 3.7

Possible1 – 5

IntellectualI

You?

Average3.3

Typical rangeTypical2.7 – 3.8

Possible1 – 5

Centrality of Religiosity ScaleCoRS

You?

Average4

Typical rangeTypical3.2 – 4.7

Possible1 – 5

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- Very often
- Not at all
- Slightly
- Moderately
- Quite strongly
- Very strongly
- More often than once a week
- Once a week
- One to three times a month
- Several times a year
- Less often
- Never

These are 3 of the 15 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) Test - Description and methodology of the test

religiosity

For people considering how religion fits their lives, the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) Test offers a structured personal profile. It can suit religious, questioning, and non-affiliated respondents seeking a religiosity assessment across several kinds of response. The result organizes self-reported tendencies for reflection without judging the truth of any belief.

What This Assessment Explores

This religious belief questionnaire maps involvement:

Experience (1-5) measures individual/collective higher-reality contact; Low 1-2.1; Moderate 2.2-3.9; High 4-5.
Personal Practice (1-5) measures individual prayer/meditation; Low 1-2.1; Moderate 2.2-3.9; High 4-5.
Public Practice (1-5) measures communal religious activity; Low 1-2.1; Moderate 2.2-3.9; High 4-5.
Ideological (1-5) measures certainty about transcendence; Low 1-2.1; Moderate 2.2-3.9; High 4-5.
Intellectual (1-5) measures religious interest, knowledge, and reflection; Low 1-2; Moderate 2.1-3.8; High 3.9-5.
Centrality of Religiosity Scale (1-5) measures religion’s integrated life role; higher scores indicate greater centrality, lower peripheral importance; Low centrality 1-2; Moderate 2.1-3.9; High 4-5.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

These 15 self-report items use five thematic areas: intellectual, ideological, experiential, personal, and public content. Some frequency questions offer six choices, while belief and importance prompts use five response levels for strength or relevance. This distinguishes occurrence from significance.

The online questionnaire does not document how its mixed response options are converted or combined. The displayed bands are classifications for these results; they do not establish population norms or theological correctness.

The main reference is Centrality of Religiosity Scale (Huber & Huber, 2012), which represents religious meaning through five channels. This questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument, not presented as an adaptation. Its result is a religiosity profile, not a measure of religious truth.

Gheorghe (2019) reported good internal consistency and convergent and discriminative validity for a Romanian CRS-15 sample. That evidence concerns the related instrument and does not establish norms for this online presentation. Self-report scores can shift with current circumstances, interpretation, self-awareness, and candor.

Author: Odilo W. Huber, Stefan Huber

Literature:

Huber, Stefan, and Odilo W. Huber. 2012. "The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS)." Religions 3 (3): 710-724. 10.3390/rel3030710
Gheorghe, Huza. 2019. "The Psychometric Properties of a Romanian Version of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS 15)." Religions 10 (1): 11. 10.3390/rel10010011

Updated: 2025-10-02