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The challenge for the psychology of religion is essentially threefold: to provide a thoroughgoing description of the objects of investigation, whether they be shared religious content (e.g., a tradition's ritual observances) or individual experiences, attitudes, or conduct;
Rambo [3] provides a model for conversion that classifies it as a highly complex process that is hard to define. He views it as a process of religious change that is affected by an interaction of numerous events, experiences, ideologies, people, institutions, and how these different experiences interact and accumulate over time.
The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to research on the psychology of religion.Its scope includes the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion.
The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice by Kenneth Pargament was published in the United States in 1997. It is addressed to professional psychologists and researchers, and has been reviewed in many professional journals.
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the psychology of religion and spirituality. It was established in 2009 and is published by the American Psychological Association.
His idea was to imbue morals through indirect means where students would learn by inference. He is considered a pioneer in the field of the psychology of religion with his book Psychology of Religion (1899) being the first in the genre. [1] Starbuck was the son of Luzena Jessup and Samuel, Quaker farmers in Guilford Township, Hendricks County ...
As part of this development, the psychology of religion emerged as a new approach to studying religious experience, with the US being the major centre of research in this field. [3] A few years earlier Edwin Diller Starbuck had written a book entitled Psychology of Religion which James had written a preface to.
Psychoanalysis has a long history of conceptualizing religious belief in terms of relationship between the self and others. [2] A religious believer's perception that they have a relationship with a deity or God leaves open the question of whether such a relationship is an attachment relation.