Religiosity Test (RCI-10)

Faith is easy to talk about and harder to measure in an ordinary week. This religiosity test looks at what you actually do: when you pray, what guides your choices, how much time goes to a community and whether you speak about belief. If you have ever wondered how religious am I compared with the people around me, the answer comes as one clear number with two parts behind it.

What the RCI-10 measures

The RCI-10 describes how far faith reaches into daily life, not which doctrine a person holds. Here it is scored as a headline level from 0 to 100 with two parts underneath. Private faith covers prayer on ordinary days, reading or reciting a sacred text alone, a short practice at home and decisions about plans, time and money that you weigh against your faith. Faith with others covers gatherings and practical work in a religious community, friends you can talk with about belief, the people you turn to when life is hard and what you say in a group that believes differently. A high level means faith organises much of your week, while a low one means it stays in the background. The two parts show where your faith actually lives.

How the test works and how to read the result

You rate 20 short statements about the past few months on a five-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Answer for the week you actually live, not for a holiday or the routine you would like to have. A few statements describe the opposite, a life where religion plays little part, and they are scored in reverse, so honest answers matter more than consistent ones. The questions use general words such as prayer, sacred text and community, so they fit any faith. When you finish, you get:

• your religiosity level from 0 to 100, shown first, with a low, moderate or high label;
• separate scores for private faith and faith with others;
• the answer patterns that raised or lowered your level;
• a comparison with people from your country.

Most people finish in about five minutes. If your religious commitment looks lopsided, that is useful too, because it shows which side of faith carries your week.