Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
by E. Rae Harcum
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This book combats the anti-religious sentiment of some psychologists. It argues that Christians do not have to give up their religious faith to keep the contributions of science. A science compatible with religion accepts that human beings have freedom of will to select behaviors and that all methods...
Being Called: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives
Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
This unique book is an essential resource for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on the phenomenon of feeling called to a life path or vocation at the interface of science and religion.
• Offers religious, spiritual, scientific, and secular avenues of understanding experiences of...
by Padmasiri de Silva
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of conflict studies, drawing on perspectives from psychology and Buddhist studies. The author combines current research in psychology, conflict and management studies, as well as moral narratives drawn from religious and cultural contexts, to offer...
Minds and Gods
The Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
Around the world and throughout history, in cultures as diverse as ancient Mesopotamia and modern America, human beings have been compelled by belief in gods and developed complex religions around them. But why? What makes belief in supernatural beings so widespread? And why are the gods of so many...
Blood That Cries Out From the Earth
The Psychology of Religious Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world. What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion? As both a clinical psychologist and an authority on comparative religion, James W. Jones is uniquely qualified to address this increasingly urgent question. Research...
Death Anxiety and Religious Belief
An Existential Psychology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear. The thought that the fear of death motivates religious belief has been around since the earliest speculations about the origins of religion. There are hints of this idea in the ancient world, but the theory achieves prominence in the works of Enlightenment...
The Psychology of Prayer
A Scientific Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Reviewing the growing body of scientific research on prayer, this book describes what is known about the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, developmental, and health aspects of this important religious activity. The highly regarded authors provide a balanced perspective on what prayer means to the...
Supernatural
Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Humans are existential animals. We are all fully aware of our fragility, transience, and potential cosmic insignificance. Our ability to ponder the big questions about death and meaning and the anxiety that these questions can provoke have motivated us to be a species not only concerned about survival,...
The Mountain Archetype
A Psychological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
From the beginning of recorded history, the mountain has played a prominent role in religion. The research for this book shows, for example, that many religions started on mountains. In addition, mountains were considered gods or the homes of the gods. Mountains also appear in contemporary dreams...
The Science of Lay Theories
How Beliefs Shape Our Cognition, Behavior, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This timely and important collection broadens our understanding of the ways in which lay theories (also known as folk psychologies, implicit theories, naïve theories, or mindsets) impact our lives and social relations. Moving well beyond lay theories as applied to intelligence and achievement, this...
Anthropologie chamanique
Qui veut faire lange… fait la bête !
Language: French
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Une anthropologie chamanique ? Pourquoi pas ? Il existe bien des anthropologies structurales, économiques, politiques et autres. Lanthropologie se caractérise par létude de lêtrehumain individuel et social en polarisant lattention sur ce qui se montre.Le chamanisme se caractérise par létude de...
Disciplining Freud on Religion
Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities. This edited collection adds to the continued multidisciplinary interest in Freud by focusing on his...
Religious Experience and Self-Psychology
Korean Christianity and the 1907 Revival Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohut's self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by identifying the sense of defeatedness...
Principles of Psychology in Religious Context
Psychological and Spiritual Origins of Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This book asserts that the better one understands the causes of behavior, the better one can apply that knowledge to produce a better world. It describes the mechanisms that cause human behavior, such as freedom of will, in a manner consistent with religious beliefs. It also asserts that all avenues...