What Does Worldview Mean?

Worldview is the term we use to encompass both secular and religious beliefs. We acknowledge that the term ‘worldview’ can have a variety of meanings, and in this context, we draw from the sociology of religion, and its use in reference to both religious and non-religious worldviews.  We use the term ‘worldview’ to refer to profound questions such as those about the nature of reality. While religious traditions have historically been the dominant voices in answering these questions, there are of course spiritual, folk, non-religious, and/or secular frameworks from which people derive meaning. For instance, Australia’s Census has shown a significant shift in how Australians identify in terms of their beliefs, and there has been a shift towards ‘No religion’ which includes secular beliefs, new age religious beliefs, atheism and the like. 

Based on these trends in a global and ever-changing religious demographic and in line with academic practice, we have used the term ‘worldview’, and have worked to formulate a question that is inclusive to people regardless of their beliefs and invites all users to participate. 
We even have Jedi! 

Note: We have been asked to include political or socio-political movements into our Worldview datasets, such as ‘Neo-Marxist’ and ‘Conservative’ but thus far we have resisted. This is because we believe that the spirit of the query is to do with one’s perception of reality, not one’s perception of economic or political structures.