• With the rise of positivistic trends in psychology over the 20th century, especially the demand that all phenomena be operationalized by quantitative procedures, psychologists of religion developed a multitude of scales, most of them developed for use by Protestant Christians. (wikipedia.org)
  • This year's award recipients are Meredith Braza for her research on infants, trust, and social categories, and Samuel Gee for his research on psychology and mysticism in the late 19th and early 20th century. (wisc.edu)
  • For most of the 20th century, it looked as though the old-style religions might be disappearing. (libertyunbound.com)
  • The idea that secular religion played a central role in the history of the 20th century is nothing new. (libertyunbound.com)
  • The secular religions of the 20th century were much less novel than they once seemed. (libertyunbound.com)
  • Psychologists of religion pursue three major projects: systematic description, especially of religious contents, attitudes, experiences, and expressions explanation of the origins of religion, both in the history of the human race and in individual lives, taking into account a diversity of influences mapping out the consequences of religious attitudes and conduct, both for the individual and for society at large. (wikipedia.org)
  • The early psychologists of religion were fully aware of these difficulties, typically acknowledging that the definitions they chose were to some degree arbitrary. (wikipedia.org)
  • Factor analysis was also brought into play by both psychologists and sociologists of religion, to establish a fixed core of dimensions and a corresponding set of scales. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the last several decades, especially among clinical psychologists, a preference for the terms "spirituality" and "spiritual" has emerged, along with efforts to distinguish them from "religion" and "religious. (wikipedia.org)
  • American psychologist and philosopher William James (1842-1910) is regarded by most psychologists of religion as the founder of the field. (wikipedia.org)
  • Theologians, psychologists and all interested in psychological studies of religion, religious psychology, and Islamic psychology. (brill.com)
  • pp. 702-703) Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research (1999 book) Handbook of Religion and Health (2001 book) Faith and Health: Psychological Perspectives (2001 book) Armando R. Favazza (1998). (wikipedia.org)
  • Paul Moes and Blake Riek set forth principles and themes and establish historical context to help students explore where different views fit on a continuum of approaches to integration and understand the perspectives of other Christians in the field of psychology. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • Kudos to Paul Moes and Blake Riek for gifting students with a big-idea book--a lucid synopsis of the philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives that frame our thinking about psychology and faith. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • Today, Western psychology needs to be enriched with new perspectives to make more comprehensive explanations about people with different cultural backgrounds. (brill.com)
  • Describe subfields, specialties, and perspectives within psychology. (gannon.edu)
  • Then the paper mentioned several activities of the Group from 1998 to 2000, such as publication of scientific papers, both organization and participation in national and international scientific events, and finally announced some perspectives for the Group development, especially the inclusion of new members and the enhancement of a program for international exchange. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Psychology of Prayer is well written and delves deeply into the literature, broadly covering what all subdisciplines of psychology have discovered on this important topic that influences most of the world's population….As someone who has devoted much of his career to the scientific approach to studying prayer, I found this book to be very thought provoking and quite comprehensive. (guilford.com)
  • Knowing the answer to this question is a crucial step in understanding the concept of a "universal" God and the tremendous influence the much older religion of Zoroastrianism had on the world's major religions. (near-death.com)
  • Some of the world's most educated men were born into religion, and continue to support it to this day. (myconfinedspace.com)
  • Also sometimes known as 'Hinduism', Sanatana Dharma is the world's most ancient culture and the religion of almost one billion of the earth's inhabitants. (ciolek.com)
  • William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, were the backbone of the world's religious life. (acappellabooks.com)
  • At the same time, the literature is dominated by theoretical contributions of sociologists of religion, while very few studies have been carried out from a psychological perspective. (icsahome.com)
  • For many people, the transpersonal is synonymous with spirituality , and many areas of interest to transpersonal researchers have traditionally been associated with religion (e.g., mystical experience, meditation). (psychicscience.org)
  • Samuel Gee worked with faculty mentor Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Associate Professor of History, on a project entitled, "Scientific Salvation: Mystical Experience and the American Psychology of Religion, 1880-1930. (wisc.edu)
  • Mental health professionals, who traditionally have shunned religion in their own lives and in the lived experience of their clients, might be persuaded by Pargament's broadband approach to investigate how religion operates in the tales of coping and crisis they hear on a daily basis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Explore a window into the beauty and majesty of the human mind through Gannon University's psychology program and secure your meaningful career in meaningful career in psychology, counseling, mental health, neuroscience, business, law, law enforcement and more. (gannon.edu)
  • Apply for a direct-entry 4+2 option to earn a bachelor's degree in psychology and master's degree in Gannon's CACREP-accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program, preparing you for licensure as a professional counselor. (gannon.edu)
  • He also is involved in research relating religion to mental health issues, coping, and physical disease (especially cancer). (hartsem.edu)
  • R. A. Bridges and B. Spilka, 'Religion and the Mental Health of Women,' in Religion and Mental Health , ed. (hartsem.edu)
  • This article reviews a number of studies investigating the relationship between religion and the variables of mental health and social behavior. (springer.com)
  • p. 508) In the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, McFadden wrote that This book represents a major theoretical and empirical contribution not only to the psychology of religion and clinical/counseling psychology but to other fields as well. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice by Kenneth Pargament was published in the United States in 1997. (wikipedia.org)
  • Integrating Psychology and Faith is a particularly fresh, engaging, and accessible exploration of how to thoughtfully and humbly engage psychological research and practice. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • This book would serve well in third- or fourth-year classes where students are encouraged to reflect on the foundations and history of psychology and are starting to consider what their future psychological practice might look like. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • Special section 1 examines the historical roots of religious practice emerging from Greater Khurāsān - a historical 'cross-road' for many world religions. (brill.com)
  • NIOSH TPGs help translate scientific discoveries into practice through effective education, training, and outreach. (cdc.gov)
  • The psychology of religion first arose as a self-conscious discipline in the late 19th century, but all three of these tasks have a history going back many centuries before that. (wikipedia.org)
  • His two major lines of research are the psychology of forgiveness and prejudice and bias. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • However, there has been a surge of interest in religion within the past two years, and the symposium, held at the APS 21st Annual Convention, highlighted recent research on this topic. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • 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. (guilford.com)
  • It is a must-read for anyone who wants to research this topic or who wants to become more familiar with the psychology of prayer. (guilford.com)
  • In spite of decades of theological research into the doctrine of creation and its scientific ramifications - much of it falling inside the science & religion field - this enterprise has brought us no closer to a meaningful unified view of the natural sciences, nor even of nature as the singular created arena of the sciences. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Many alternative sub-themes could have been chosen, but we believed that these offered the most tractable way into the research question for a 33-month research project, since they make use of reasonably well-contained, and already-existing, research emphases in the science-and-religion field (including the themes of creation and divine action). (ed.ac.uk)
  • Use statistics to test research hypotheses, and correctly interpret and evaluate psychology research. (gannon.edu)
  • This summarises the scientific research. (mindprod.com)
  • The New Sciences of Religion is a critical analysis of new scientific research on religious and spiritual phenomena. (researchgate.net)
  • The library portion of Meredith's research involved a wide range of UW Libraries resources, including subject databases in psychology, medicine, and the social sciences and humanities. (wisc.edu)
  • Noteworthy in Samuel's research process were his use of online resources in psychology and religion and his grant-funded trip to Harvard University to work with the William James Papers housed there. (wisc.edu)
  • Both fields of research devote themselves to the "theology" of secular religions. (libertyunbound.com)
  • Detailed, comprehensive tables included in the preface outline how Psychology in Everyday Life addresses the overarching themes, the research, and the pillars of the APA's IPI. (bfwpub.com)
  • This paper has presented the reasons for creating a Psychology & Religion Workgroup in Anpepp (National Association for Research and Graduation in Psychology). (bvsalud.org)
  • The licensed databases may only be used for personal and scientific use, as well as for research and educational purposes. (lu.se)
  • Demonstrate knowledge of APA ethics and other professional issues in psychology. (gannon.edu)
  • For this reason, interest-based lending has been always restricted by the authorities through legislative, administrative and financial arrangements, religion and ethics. (researchgate.net)
  • Transpersonal Psychology became a named discipline in the late 1960s and this was marked by the publication of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology (1969) and the formation of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology (1972). (psychicscience.org)
  • In fact, "spirituality" has likewise undergone an evolution in the West, from a time when it was essentially a synonym for religion in its original, subjective meaning. (wikipedia.org)
  • The New Sciences of Religion then asks what in religion and spirituality might also be true and profound when our received traditions are reinterpreted in light of contemporary sciences. (researchgate.net)
  • Michael Inzlicht, University of Toronto, opened the "Toward a Cognitive Science of Religion: Insights From Personality and Social Psychology" symposium in a somewhat unorthodox fashion: "By show of hands, who in this room would say they have a personal belief in God or religious affiliation. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • To this end, the project brings together a unique and highly qualified team representing Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Geoscience and History of Religions to investigate language of perception in three diverse Language Observatories. (lu.se)
  • The various secular religions are proving, on close study and with the perspective of a bit of history, to be derived from earlier branches of Christianity. (libertyunbound.com)
  • It is an exciting environment where the Humanities, Theology, and Social sciences can tackle the scientific challenges ahead. (lu.se)
  • Although transpersonal psychology represents a paradigm shift in consciousness, science and culture, it seeks to distance itself from the kind of uncritical adoption of New Age beliefs that characterises certain elements of the so-called counter culture. (psychicscience.org)
  • In contrast, the human-scientific approach accesses the human world of experience using qualitative, phenomenological, and interpretive methods. (wikipedia.org)
  • Written by Sevde Düzgüner, this book is the product of an effort to discuss the human model of Islam and the human theories of psychology with a complementary approach. (brill.com)
  • The scientific approach is then to prefer the standard model without god. (blogspot.com)
  • As a branch of psychology, Transpersonal Psychology is primarily concerned with the psychological understanding of the transpersonal, However, it also recognises the importance of a mutli-perspectival and integrative approach in which other disciplines are acknowledged to have their own contributions to make in our combined explorations of the transpersonal. (psychicscience.org)
  • Thus, it will appeal to all committed to a critical approach across the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for alternative analyses of psychological events, processes, and practices. (lu.se)
  • Transpersonal Psychology aims to investigate the transpersonal in a scientific and scholarly way, while also recognising the importance of a commitment to transpersonal ideals such as empathy, compassion, personal-development and wisdom. (psychicscience.org)
  • Paul Moes (PhD, Texas Christian University) is professor of psychology at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • Blake Riek (PhD, University of Delaware) is professor of psychology at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has taught since 2007. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • Ken is a retired Psychology professor, a founding Board member of the Christian Universalist Association , an expert in Universalism and the major world religions such as Zoroastrianism , and a member of IANDS (along with many other qualifications). (near-death.com)
  • (1926-) Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver and a core faculty member of the Joint University of Denver-Iliff School of Theology, Religion and Psychological Studies program. (hartsem.edu)
  • Hey professor asshat, until science finds a reason for life, a creator of life, and an answer to what happens when people die that can be definitively proven and repeated then religion will always be around and the only thing childish around here is judgmental, pompous, comically uninformed motherfuckers like you. (myconfinedspace.com)
  • Meredith worked with faculty mentor Associate Professor Kristin Shutts of the Psychology Department on a project entitled, "How Social Categories Affect Infants' Trust and Preferences. (wisc.edu)
  • This is an original and compelling scientific interpretation of religion and also a religious interpretation of science that will challenge and delight students and scholars alike. (researchgate.net)
  • He's very upset that scholars (oh, excuse me: "scholars") dare to point out the follies of religion. (freethoughtblogs.com)
  • The tradition of atheism is certainly long-standing and stretches back at least as far as Western classical antiquity, but the modern trend of liberal, militantly atheist academics and of "scholars" who declare war on religion-or, more simply, a person's belief in God-is vicious, disrespectful, and an abuse of the scholarly platform. (freethoughtblogs.com)
  • This textbook updates the conversation about models of psychology and faith integration, helping students understand the range of options for Christian engagement. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • Drawing from themes developed in Paul Moes's well-received Exploring Psychology and Christian Faith (coauthored with Donald J. Tellinghuisen), Integrating Psychology and Faith develops a set of worldview dimensions that serve to organize a variety of psychology-faith integration models. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • This is a brief, succinct, and well written introduction to the major models and worldviews for the integration of Christian faith and psychology. (bakerpublishinggroup.com)
  • Specifically, he noted how individualist nature in the United States is reflected by Protestantism (the religion of many of the country's original settlers) - in which public, communal displays are unnecessary and one's faith is regarded as a "personal relationship with God. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • A remarkably sensitive work of scholarship, the book succeeds in constructing an empirically based psychology of prayer without diminishing or explaining away its value to those who are committed to a life of faith. (guilford.com)
  • Faith was rekindled, hope ran freer, and for some, religion once again became a great stronghold. (tparents.org)
  • Anyways I have found that all religion does is tell you to have faith in something else and not in yourself. (shroomery.org)
  • As a result the majority, those holding 'moderate' faith of any kind, blending in easily with modern society, not killing for their faith, inciting hatred nor discriminating against those of alternative faiths to theirs, do not identify with either extreme, neither fundamentalist nor atheist, arguing that 'moderate' religion is the way through the ideological woods. (rationalresponders.com)
  • Recent studies have employed such methods to explore the contents of "economic theology," "psychological religion," "Marxist eschatology," and the "constitutional faith" of America. (libertyunbound.com)
  • Kudos to Spilka and Ladd-two premier scientific explorers of the human religious impulse-for this landmark volume on the psychology of prayer. (guilford.com)
  • Spilka is a founding father of the field, and he and Ladd have produced a gem of a book sparkling with the latest scientific information on the most critical questions about prayer. (guilford.com)
  • Since psychology and religion share the same ground in terms of providing explanations about the human being, many religious teachings also contain psychological descriptions. (brill.com)
  • In the end, there is no grand unified theory of religion and none of the many scientific explanations of religion preclude that religions have intuited, experienced, and discovered true and profound insights into the nature of ultimate reality and human existence. (researchgate.net)
  • Psychology of religion consists of the application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to the diverse contents of religious traditions as well as to both religious and irreligious individuals. (wikipedia.org)
  • One specific part comprises the scientific study of societal phenomena such as religion, culture, climate and environment, and politics, from a psychological perspective. (oru.se)
  • Being a relatively new academic discipline, Transpersonal Psychology has yet to be recognised formally by the American Psychological Association . (psychicscience.org)
  • The various methods and frameworks can be summarized according to the classic distinction between the natural-scientific and human-scientific approaches. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientific Western psychology has asserted important theories and researches in understanding human beings. (brill.com)
  • Deepen your understanding of the relationships between psychology, religion and human values. (gannon.edu)
  • Among these reasons stands out some concern with the need of reinstating an important area of human behavior in the field of scientific Psychology. (bvsalud.org)
  • The LANG-KEY project opens up new horizons in the human sciences by providing scientific access to human diversity. (lu.se)
  • Study how psychological principles are applied in the work environment, a growing and highly lucrative sub-field of psychology. (gannon.edu)
  • It's overly simplified, and obviously not made by anyone in the field of psychology*, but it is sure to provoke some reactions. (myconfinedspace.com)
  • Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. (acappellabooks.com)
  • If you want to explain observations, then the scientific theories of the day are the best you can do. (blogspot.com)
  • In contrast to the New Atheists, Grassie argues for a concept of God-by-whatever-name that is fully compatible with contemporary science and the reinterpretation of traditional religions. (researchgate.net)
  • Whether old or new, religion in the Western world has always been about salvation, about finding the correct path to heaven - in the hereafter or, more recently, on earth. (libertyunbound.com)
  • The IRM now includes 17 new "Diversity in Psychology: Spotlight on Women" activities, and 2 additional new Diversity in Psych activities to accompany the improved Timeline. (bfwpub.com)
  • Although it lacks any biological or psychiatric focus, I highly recommend it to colleagues who desire to organize their thoughts about religion. (wikipedia.org)
  • By 2010, it had been cited more than 450 times in the psychology literature. (wikipedia.org)
  • This course will survey the recent literature on the subject, and will bring this material into conversation with "classical" naturalistic theorizing concerning religion. (amherst.edu)
  • Inzlicht and Kristin Laurin, University of Waterloo (presenting on behalf of Aaron C. Kay) discussed their findings on how religion affects people's daily lives. (psychologicalscience.org)