Psychology of Religion, (4 Volume Set)

Psychology of religion is essentially as old as psychology itself, with over a hundred years of history and claiming some of psychology’s most notable characters as contributors, including William James, Sigmund Freud, Gordon Allport, and Jean Piaget. In recent years, this subfield of psychology has risen in prominence. Sectarian violence, secularization, the ‘culture wars’, and increase in cross-cultural and cross-religious contact through migration, urbanization, and globalization have all contributed to heightened interest in questions such as: where do religious beliefs come from? Why do they seem to motivate behaviour so powerfully? Is religious belief and practice good or bad for us? Does religious belief assist or hinder morality?

Increasingly discussed by journalists and science-popularisers such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, A.C. Grayling, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Lewis Wolpert, these sorts of questions are psychological questions with psychological answers emerging through the work of psychologists of religion.

Social and cultural factors have provided some motivation for renewed interest in psychology of religion, and additional impetus has been provided by new advances in psychological subfields, particularly cognitive, developmental, and evolutionary psychology. These three areas, previously only marginal contributors to psychology of religion, have begun making more substantial contributions concerning how and why human minds come to represent certain religious ideas and beliefs.

Not surprisingly, psychology of religion is becoming a more prominent focus of psychological research and teaching.

This collection presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive presentation of the psychology of religion available. The first volume focuses on psychological explanations of religion (that is, religion as something to be explained), the second concerning religious psychology, the third representing the impact of religion on thought, feelings, and behaviour, and the final volume considering implications of religious perspectives and findings for the practice of psychology, both scientific and applied. Historical and contemporary perspectives are integrated into thematically arranged sections. An extended introduction surveying the field begins the collection and an index increases the collection’s utility as a reference resource.

Volume I

Chapter 1 : Lecture 2 :  The Varieties of Religious Experience
Chapter 2 : The Future of an Illusion :  The Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Chapter 3 : A Religious Experience :  The Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Chapter 4 : Psychology and Religion
Chapter 5 : Religious Development : A Psychoanalytic Point of View :  New Directions for Child Development
Chapter 6 : Are Children "Intuitive Theists"? Reasoning About Purpose and Design in Nature :  Psychological Science
Chapter 7 : God’s Belief’s Versus MoTher’s : The Development of Nonhuman Agent Concepts :  Child Development
Chapter 8 : Beyond Scopes : Why Creationism Is Here to Stay, Imagining The Impossible : Magical, Scientific and Religious Thinking in Children
Chapter 9 : Understanding Mortality and The Life of The Ancestors in Rural Madagascar :  Cognitive Science
Chapter 10 : Attribution Theory and The Psychology of Religion :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 11 : A General Attribution Theory for The Psychology of Religion :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 12 : How to Become a Cult Leader :  Age of Propaganda : The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Chapter 13 : Primary Personality Trait Correlates of Religious Practice and Orientation :  Personality and Individual Differences
Chapter 14 : Is Spirituality an Intelligence? Motivation, Cognition, and The Psychology of Ultimate Concern :  International Journal for The Psychology of Religion
Chapter 15 : Cross-Cultural Generalizability of The Spiritual Transcendence Scale to The Philippines : Spirituality as a Human Universal :  Mental Health, Religion & Culture
Chapter 16 : Religious Thought and Behaviour as By-products of Brain Function :  Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Chapter 17 : Cognitive Templates for Religious Concepts : Cross-Cultural Evidence for Recall of Counter-Intuitive Representations :  Cognitive Science
Chapter 18 : Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior :  American Anthropologist
Chapter 19 : ATheists : A Psychological Profile, The Cambridge Companion to ATheism
Chapter 20 : Sensed Presence and Mystical Experiences Are Predicted by Suggestibility, Not by The Application of Transcranial Weak Complex Magnetic Fields :  Neuroscience Letters
Chapter 21 : Post-Traumatic Growth and The Origins of Early Christianity :  Mental Health, Religion & Culture

Volume II

Chapter 22 : Drugs and Mysticism, Psychedelics : The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs
Chapter 23 : Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial and Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance :  Psychopharmacology
Chapter 24 : De-Automatization and The Mystic Experience :  Psychiatry
Chapter 25 : The Construction and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Reported Mystical Experience :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 26 : Differential Triggering of Mystical Experience as a Function of Self Actualization :  Review of Religious Research
Chapter 27 : Toward an Attitude Process Model of Religious Experience :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 28 : The Measurement of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow During Glossolalia : A Preliminary Spect Study :  Psychiatry Research : Neuroimaging
Chapter 29 : God as a Substitute Attachment Figure : A Longitudinal Study of Adult Attachment Style and Religious Change in College Students :  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Chapter 30 : Religious Conversion and Perceived Childhood Attachment : A Meta-Analysis :  International Journal for The Psychology of Religion
Chapter 31 : Prophecy Fails Again : A Report of a Failure to Replicate :  Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
Chapter 32 : Some Correlates of Beliefs in The Malevolence and Benevolence of Supernatural Beings : A Cross-Societal Study :  Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
Chapter 33 : Parents, Self and God : A Test of Competing Theories of Individual-Religion Relationships :  Review of Religious Research
Chapter 34 : Parent-Child Communication About Religion : Survey and Diary Data on Unilateral Transmission and Bi-Directional Reciprocity Styles :  Review of Religious Research
Chapter 35 : Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity : Anthropomorphism in God Concepts :  Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 36 : The Development of Children’s Beliefs About Prayer :  Journal of Cognition and Culture
Chapter 37 : The Development of Prayer in Adolescence :  New Directions for Child Development
Chapter 38 : Religious Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence : A Viewpoint of Religious Development between The Ages of 7 and 20 :  International Journal for The Psychology of Religion
Chapter 39 : Predictors of Religiosity among Youth Aged 17–22 : A Longitudinal Study of The National Survey of Children :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 40 : Spiritual Development across The Adult Life Course : Findings from a Longitudinal Study :  Journal of Adult Development
Chapter 41 : A Longitudinal Study of Religious Doubts in High School and Beyond : Relationships, Stability, and Searching for Answers :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 42 : Stumbling Blocks on The Religious Road : Fractured Relationships, Nagging Vices, and The Inner Struggle to Believe :  Psychological Inquiry

Volume III

Chapter 43 : Religion-as-Schema, with Implications for The Relation between Religion and Coping :  International Journal for The Psychology of Religion
Chapter 44 : Religious Methods of Coping : Resources for The Conservation and Transformation of Significance, Religion and The Clinical Practice of Psychology
Chapter 45 : Religion as a Meaning-Making Framework in Coping with Life Stress :  Journal of Social Issues
Chapter 46 : An Fmri Study Measuring Analgesia Enhanced by Religion as a Belief System :  Pain
Chapter 47 : The Bitter and The Sweet : An Evaluation of The Costs and Benefits of Religiousness :  Psychological Inquiry
Chapter 48 : Women’s Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Religion : A Critical Review of The Literature :  Research in The Social Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 49 : Religious Involvement and Morality : A Meta-Analytic Review :  Health Psychology
Chapter 50 : Personal Religious Orientation and Prejudice :  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Chapter 51 : Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religiousness : Review and Meta-Analysis :  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Chapter 52 : Christian Faith and Ethnic Prejudice : A Review and Interpretation of Research :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 53 : Authoritarianism, Religious Fundamentalism, Quest and Prejudice :  International Journal for The Psychology of Religion
Chapter 54 : From Jerusalem to Jericho : A Study of Situational and Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior :  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Chapter 55 : Quest Religion and The Problem of Limited Compassion :  Journal for The Scientific Study of Religion
Chapter 56 : Love of God and Neighbor : Religious and Volunteer Service among College Students :  Review of Religious Research
Chapter 57 : Sanctification of Parenting : Links to Corporal Punishment and Parental Warmth among Biblically Conservative and Liberal MoThers :  International Journal for The Psychology of Religion
Chapter 58 : Purpose in Life and Value Changes Following Conversion :  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Chapter 59 : Religious Conversion and Personality Change :  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Chapter 60 : Religion and The Morality of Mentality :  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Chapter 61 : God Is Watching You : Priming God Concepts Increases Prosocial Behavior in an Anonymous Economic Game :  Psychological Science
Chapter 62 : Religious Rital and Cooperation : Testing for a Relationship on Israeli Religious and Secular Kibbutzim :  Current Anthropology

Volume IV

Chapter 63 : A Constructive Relationship for Religion with The Science and Profession of Psychology : Perhaps The Boldest Model Yet :  American Psychologist
Chapter 64 : Religious Systems as Culturally Constituted Defense Mechanisms, Culture and Human Nature : Theoretical Papers of Melford E : Spiro
Chapter 65 : Psychopathology and Religious Commitment :  Review of Religious Research
Chapter 66 : Some Constructive Features of The Concept of Sin :  Journal of Counseling Psychology
Chapter 67 : There Is No Place for The Concept of Sin in PsychoTherapy :  Journal of Counseling Psychology
Chapter 68 : PsychoTherapy and Religious Values :  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Chapter 69 : The Role of Religion, Spirituality and Alcoholics Anonymous in Sustained Sobriety :  Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly
Chapter 70 : Comparative Efficacy of Religious and Non-Religious Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for The Treatment of Clinical Depression in Religious Individuals :  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Chapter 71 : Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Context : Past, Present, and Future :  Clinical Psychology : Science and Practice
Chapter 72 : Sacred Bounds on Rational Resolution of Violent Political Conflict
Chapter 73 : Advances in The Conceptualization and Measurement of Religion and Spirituality : Implications for Physical and Mental Health Research :  American Psychologist
Chapter 74 : The Psychology of Religion : An Overview, Religion and The Clinical Practice of Psychology
Chapter 75 : Psychology of Religion :  Annual Review of Psychology
Chapter 76 : The Psychology of Religion :  Annual Review of Psychology
Chapter 77 : Methodological Issues in The Psychology of Religion : Toward AnoTher Paradigm :  Journal of Psychology
Chapter 78 : Toward and Evolutionary Psychology of Religion and Personality :  Journal of Personality
Chapter 79 : Giving Religion Away : What The Study of Religion Offers Psychology :  International Journal for The Psychology of Religion