Key psychological issues in the study of religion [PDF]
The current article considers the role of scientific (experimental) psychology in the study of religion and argues that many of the questions central to the history, sociology and anthropology of religion are often psychological and hence require the use
Petrović Olivera
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Theorizing experience: the psychological search for a science of religion (1896-1937) [PDF]
This dissertation examines the central projects for a psychology of religion put forward in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that the proponents of this subdiscipline were attempting to set up a new science of religion, one ...
Iagher, MG
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Mad Men: The Relationship between Psychology and Religion in Chaim Potok’s The Chosen [PDF]
After watching an episode from the first season of Mad Men, that cleverly juxtaposed the Catholic Sacrament of Confession and a session with a psychologist, I wondered: are religion and psychology really all that different?
Longobardi, Laura
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Psychoanalysis of Religion in Simin Behbahani's Poems Based on Erich Fromm's Theory [PDF]
The relationship between the Qur'an, religion, and modern psychology is one of the topics of interest to psychologists. Erich Fromm has a positive attitude towards. urges religious leaders and psychoanalysts to confront corruption in industrial societies.
zahra GanbarAli Bageni+2 more
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Review of Religion Explained-- The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer (2002) (review revised 2019) [PDF]
You can get a quick summary of this book on p 135 or 326. If you are not up to speed on evolutionary psychology, you should first read one of the numerous recent texts with this term in the title.
Starks, Michael
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Marriage, religion and human flourishing: how sustainable is the classic Durkheim thesis in contemporary Europe? [PDF]
This paper draws on the three waves of the European Values Survey across five countries (Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Spain and Sweden) to investigate the relationship between indicators of positive psychology (conceptualised ...
Andrew Village+16 more
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Abstract Mental ill‐health is a serious and growing problem among university students in Australia. Within this cohort, international students are particularly vulnerable. International students in Australia have fewer social rights than domestic students and are at elevated risk of social isolation, exploitation in employment, precarious housing ...
Michelle Peterie+5 more
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SCIENCE AND RELIGION: Scientific Understanding and Mathematical Modeling of Emotions of the Spiritually Sublime [PDF]
Science strives for a detailed understanding of reality even if this differentiation threatens individual synthesis, or the wholeness of psyche. Religion strives to maintain the wholeness of psyche, even if at the expense of a detailed understanding of the world and Self. This paper analyzes the cognitive forces driving us to achieve both.
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Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin+2 more
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A Sketch on Daisaku Ikeda as a Jamesian Psychologist of Religion
This essay attempts to determine whether Daisaku Ikeda can be seen as a Jamesian psychologist of religion. Concerning the development of this essay, it first focuses on a common concern that exists if we look at the work of William James and the ...
Chae Young Kim
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