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Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
by Raymond F. Paloutzian, Crystal L. Park. 590 pgs.

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1: Integrative Themes in the Current Science of the Psychology of Religion

2: Religiousness and Spirituality

3: Measurement in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality: Current Status and Evaluation

4: Research Methods in the Psychology of Religion

5: Psychodynamic Psychologies and Religion: Past, Present, and Future

6: Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging New Foundation for the Psychology of Religion

7: Religious and Spiritual Development in Childhood

8: Religious Development from Adolescence to Middle Adulthood

9: Points of Connection: Gerontology and the Psychology of Religion

10: Religion's Role in Marriage and Parenting in Daily Life and during Family Crises

11: The Neuropsychology of Religious and Spiritual Experience

12: Cognitive Approaches to Religion

13: Emotion and Religion

14: The Role of Personality in Understanding Religious and Spiritual Constructs

15: Religion, Attitudes, and Social Behavior

16: Religion and Meaning

17: Religious and Spiritual Struggles

18: Religious Conversion and Spiritual Transformation: A Meaning-System Analysis

19: Mystical, Spiritual, and Religious Experiences

20: Religious Practice, Ritual, and Prayer

21: Fundamentalism and Authoritarianism

22: Religion and Forgiveness

23: Religion, Morality, and Self-Control: Values, Virtues, and Vices

24: Do Religion and Spirituality Influence Health?

25: Relationships of Religiosity and Spirituality with Mental Health and Psychopathology

26: The Religious Dimension of Coping: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice

27: The Psychology of Religion in Clinical and Counseling Psychology

28: From Advocacy to Science: The Next Steps in Workplace Spirituality Research

29: Religious Violence, Terrorism, and Peace: A Meaning-System Analysis

30: One Step toward Integration and an Expansive Future

Author Index

Subject Index
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The Psychology of Religion: Theoretical Approaches
by Bernard Spilka, Daniel N. McIntosh. 284 pgs.

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Theory in the psychology of religion is undergoing rapid development, and this book demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that will in turn encourage exploration in many directions.

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PREFACE

PART 1: Where We Are and Where We Should Go

1: AN AGENDA ITEM FOR PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION: GETTING RESPECT

2: TOWARD MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES OF INTRINSIC RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT

PART 2: Why Religion? Functions of Religious Beliefs and Behavior

3: TOWARD A THEORY OF RELIGION: RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT

4: IN TIMES OF STRESS: THE RELIGION-COPING CONNECTION

5: PROPOSED AGENDA FOR A SPIRITUAL STRATEGY IN PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

PART 3: Social Concerns

6: AN INTEGRATED ROLE THEORY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION: CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVES

7: RELIGION AND MORAL EVALUATION DISCREPANCY THEORY

PART 4: Development of Individual Religion

8: THE ORIGINS OF RELIGION IN THE CHILD

9: INTEGRATING DIFFERING THEORIES: THE CASE OF RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT

10: AN ATTACHMENT-THEORY APPROACH TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION

PART 5: Believing Is Seeing: How Religion Shapes Our Worlds

11: ATTRIBUTION THEORY AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION

12: A GENERAL ATTRIBUTION THEORY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION

13: RELIGION-AS-SCHEMA, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RELATION BETWEEN RELIGION AND COPING

14: TOWARD AN ATTITUDE PROCESS MODEL OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

15: IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: A SOCIAL-COGNITIVE MODEL OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF

PART 6: The Experience of Religion

16: A TAXONOMY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

17: THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF MYSTICISM

REFERENCES

ABOUT THE BOOK

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX
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The Psychology of Religion, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Robert A. Emmons, Raymond F. Paloutzian. 26 pgs.

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What the Psychology of Religion Is and What It Is Not, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
by Antoine Vergote. 14 pgs.

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Debate Concerning the Psychology of Religion, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
by Antoine Vergote. 6 pgs.

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Integrating Psychology and Spirituality?
by Richard L. Gorsuch. 192 pgs.

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Gorsuch seeks to provide a thoughtful introduction to relating spirituality and psychology in a postmodern era. Psychology provides an empirical base for many of the discussions. In addition he develops two methods of dialoging or integrating psychology and spirituality.

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Acknowledgments

How to Read This Book

Part I: The Nature of Integration

Chapter 1: What is Integration of Disciplines?

Chapter 2: Relationships Among Disciplines

Part II: Interdisciplinary Commentary

Chapter 3: Spirituality: on the Limits of Science (Psychology)

Chapter 4: Psychology: Suggestions for Worldviews

Part III: Integration as Joint Problem Solving

Chapter 5: Clinical Psychology

Chapter 6: Integration with Social Psychology

Chapter 7: Epilogue

References

Name Index

Subject Index

About the Author
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Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective
by C. Daniel Batson, Patricia Schoenrade, W. Larry Ventis. 430 pgs.

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1: Toward a Social Psychology of Religion

I: Sources of the Individual's Religion

2: Social Sources of Personal Religion

Summary and Conclusion

3: Individual Development and Religion

II: Nature of Individual Religion

4: Religious Experience and Personal Transformation

Summary and Conclusion

5: Facilitators of Religious Experience

6: Dimensions of Individual Religion

III: Consequences of Individual Religion

7: Personal Freedom or Bondage?

8: Mental Health or Sickness?

9: Brothers-And-Sisters or Sheep-And-Goats?

10: Concern for Others or Self-Concern?

IV: Implications

11: Is Religion on Our Side?

Summary and Conclusion

Appendix the Scientific Method and Social Psychology of Religion

References (indexed)

Subject Index
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Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain; Contemporary Dialogues, Future Prospects
by Diane Jonte-Pace, William B. Parsons. 340 pgs.

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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 Dialogue* The Psychology-Comparativist Dialogue* Psychology, Religion and Gender Studies* Psychology "as" Religion* Social Scientific Approaches to the Psychology of Religion* The Empirical Approach* International Perspectives

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Introduction

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Part I

Section 1: Empirical and Cultural Approaches

1: Psychology of Religion

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2: Psychology of Religion

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3: The Future is in the Return

Section 2: Perspectives on Modernity and Post-Modernity

4: Does (the History Of) Religion and Psychological Studies Have a Subject?

Notes

5: What is Our Present?

6: Mapping Religion Psychologically

7: Post-Structuralism and the Psychology of Religion

Notes

Section 3: Psychology, Religion, and Gender Studies

8: Analysts, Critics, and Inclusivists

9: Male Melancholia

Part II

Section 1: Theology and Psychology in the West

10: The Past and Possible Future of Religion and Psychological Studies

Notes

11: Shaping the Future of Religion and Psychology

12: When is Religion a Mental Disorder?

Section 2: Comparative Studies

13: Themes and Debates in the Psychology-Comparativist Dialogue

14: Re-Membering a Presence of Mythological Proportions Psychoanalysis and Hinduism

15: Experimental Studies of Meditation and Consciousness

Section 3: Psychology “as” Religion

16: Diving into the Depths

17: The Death Awareness Movement

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Index
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The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality? Yes and No, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
by Kenneth I. Pargament. 14 pgs.

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Reconfiguring the Emotions in the Psychology of Religion, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
by Kathleen V. O'Connor. 9 pgs.

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Psychology for Christian Ministry
by Fraser Watts, Rebecca Nye, Sara Savage. 320 pgs.

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This introduction to psychology has been devised for those training for and working in the clergy. Ideal both as a professional handbook and a textbook, it covers social, developmental, educational, occupational and counselling psychology, as well as the psychology of religion. It carefully considers the processes of personal change and growth central to religion.

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Preface

Part 1: Personality and Religion

1: Spirituality

2: The Psychology of Church Services

3: Diversity Among Christians

4: Unhealthy Religion

Part 2: Development and Teaching

5: Childhood and Adolescence

6: Religious Development

7: Teaching and Preaching

Part 3: Counselling and Pastoral Care

8: Ageing, Illness, Bereavement, and Dying

9: Emotional Problems

10: Counselling and Pastoral Care

Part 4: Organisation and the Church

11: Social Processes in Church Life

12: The Church as an Organisation

13: Clergy

Part 5: Psychology and Theology

14: Concepts of Human Nature

15: Psychology and Theology

Afterword

Bibliography

Index
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The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism
by Ralph W. Hood Jr., Peter C. Hill, W. Paul Williamson. 247 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Fundamentalist Religion as an Intratextual Search for Meaning

2: Fundamentalism as a Meaning System

3: The History of Protestant Fundamentalism

4: Fundamentalism in a Pentecostal Denomination

5: Fundamentalism among Religious Serpent-Handling Sects

6: Fundamentalism among the Amish

7: Fundamentalist Islam

8: Intratextuality, Stereotyping, and Quasi-Fundamentalisms

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index
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The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (Part III "Social and Psychological Dimensions")
by James R. Lewis. 544 pgs.

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The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies. This Handbook covers the current state of the field and breaks new ground. Its contributors are drawn equally from sociology and religious studies and include both established scholars and "rising stars" in the field. The core chapters deal with such central issues as conversion, the brainwashing debate, millennialism, and modernization. Another section deals with NRM subfields such as neopaganism, satanism, and UFO religions. The final section considers NRMs in global perspective.

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Contributors

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

Overview

References

Chapter 1: An Introduction to New Religions

Notes

Part I: Modernization and New Religions

Chapter 2: Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions, and the Reenchantment of the West

Notes

Chapter 3: The Sociocultural Significance of Modern New Religious Movements

Notes

References

Chapter 4: Science and Religion in the New Religions

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Chapter 5: New Religious Movements and the World Wide Web

Notes

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Part II: Social Conflict

Chapter 6: Violence and New Religious Movements

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Chapter 7: Legal Dimensions of New Religions

Notes

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Chapter 8: Vicissitudes of Success and Failure

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Chapter 9: Anti-Cult Campaigns in Western Europe and French Religious Exceptionalism

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Chapter 10: Stanism and Ritual Abuse

Notes

Chapter 11: Conversion and “Brainwashing” in New Religious Movements

Notes

References

Chapter 12: Disaffiliating from New Religious Movements

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Part III: Social and Psychological Dimensions

Chapter 13: Psychology and the New Religious Movements

Notes

References

Chapter 14: Millennialism

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Chapter 15: Function, Reality Construction, and Process

Notes

References

Chapter 16: Women in New Religious Movements

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Chapter 17: Children in New Religious Movements

Notes

References

Part IV: Neo-Pagans, Ufos, and Other Heterodoxies

Chapter 18: UFO Religions and “Ufological” Themes in New Religious Movements

Notes

References

Chapter 19: Esotericism in New Religious Movements

Notes

References

Chapter 20: Seekers, Networks, and “New Age”

Notes

References

Chapter 21: New Religions in East Asia

Notes

References

Chapter 22: A Review of Current Academic Treatments of Neo-Paganism

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Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion (Chap. Two "Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality")
by Jeremy Carrette, Richard King. 196 pgs.

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From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism. Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace - a cultural addiction that reflects orthodox politics, curbs self-expression and colonizes Eastern beliefs.Exposing how spirituality has today come to embody the privatization of religion in the modern West, Jeremy Carrette and Richard King reveal the people and brands who profit from this corporate hijack, and explore how spirituality can be reclaimed as a means of resistance to capitalism and its deceptions.

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Spirituality and the Rebranding of Religion

One: A Brief History of Spirituality

Two: Western Psychology and the Politics of Spirituality

Three: Spirituality and the Privatisation of Asian Wisdom Traditions

Four: Selling the Soul

Spirituality and Resistance Challenging the Corporate Takeover

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