Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
Religion and Psychology
Mapping the Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Religion and Psychology is a thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. This is an essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology of religion. Issues addressed are:
* The Psychology-Theology...
Religion and Critical Psychology
Religious Experience in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Jeremy Carrette argues that the psychology of religion is no longer sustainable without a social critique, and that as William James predicted, the project of the modernist psychology of religion has failed. Controversially he champions greater social and philosophical analysis within the field to...
The Psychology of Religion, Fifth Edition
An Empirical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Keeping up with the rapidly growing research base, the leading graduate-level psychology of religion text is now in a fully updated fifth edition. It takes a balanced, empirically driven approach to understanding the role of religion in individual functioning and social behavior. Integrating research...
Toward a Latin American Psychology of Religion
Evolution, Tendencies and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Psychology of Religion is a rapidly developing field that traces its beginning back to the 1902 ground-breaking publication of The Varieties of Religious Experience by United States psychologist William James. Unfortunately, this study is a long-overdue response to what seems to be a resounding...
by Michael Argyle, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Originally published in 1975, this book is a completely rewritten, revised version of Michael Argyle’s standard work, Religious Behaviour, first published in 1958. A great deal of new research had appeared since that date, which threw new light on the nature and origins of religious behaviour, beliefs...
The Attraction of Religion
A New Evolutionary Psychology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Religion is an evolutionary puzzle. It involves beliefs in counterfactual worlds and engagement in costly rituals. Yet religion is widespread across all human cultures and eras. This begs the question, why are so many people attracted to religion?
In The Attraction of Religion, essays by leading...
by Terry Swan
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
A Brief Introduction to the Psychology of Religion is a concise text that covers a varied field of knowledge in a comprehensive manner. Your authors draw on research, past and present to investigate religious beliefs systems and behaviors. The great subject of Psychology of Religion will both challenge...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Widely regarded as the definitive reference, this volume comprehensively examines the psychological processes associated with religion and spirituality. Leading scholars from multiple psychological subdisciplines present developmental, cognitive, social psychological, cultural, and clinical perspectives...
Religion and Spirituality in Psychotherapy
An Individual Psychology Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
This book offers new possibilities for mental health professionals who are looking for ways to adapt traditional therapy and counseling techniques to address the spiritual and psychological issues their clients face. The author utilizes an Adlerian Individual Psychology perspective, which rejects...
Psychology and the Perennial Philosophy
Studies in Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Modern psychology is at an impasse as it searches anxiously for new therapies to address the increasing occurrence of mental illness in contemporary society. In this groundbreaking anthology, leading authors from the perennialist school, including Huston Smith, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Frithjof Schuon,...
Sacred Matters
Religion and Spirituality in Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory about ways various aspects of the sacred are helpful and harmful. The authors hope that their new conceptual framework will stimulate new research and encourage...
Religion and Psychology in Transition
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this thought-provoking book, clinical psychologist and professor of religious studies James W. Jones presents a dialogue between contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary theology. He sheds new light on the interaction of religion and psychology by viewing it from the perspective of world...
by James Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion is the first book to bring together cultural psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Containing much-needed discussion of how good research should do more than simply follow methodological prescriptions, this thought-provoking and original...
Applied Psychology for Servant Religion
A Religious Behavioral Science Promotes Personal and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This book is the third in a trilogy of books on introductory psychology. It emphasizes the application of psychological principles for the improvement of individual and group behaviors. The two principles of greatest relevance are the Law of Effect and the Principle of Human Agency. The universally-accepted...