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Issues in the psychology of religious conversion

Journal of Religion and Health, 1967
Such are the issues that two psychologists with theological training and ministerial ordination draw from social science literature as it relates to religious conversion. Few, if any, of these issues are settled definitively. There is a great need for solid, responsible research, not to prove or disprove, but simply to understand, predict, and, where ...
J R, Scroggs, W G, Douglas
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Psychology and religious retreats

Pastoral Psychology, 1969
Joseph Havens, Havens Joseph
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The Religious Implications of Jung's Psychology

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), 1949
Dr. Carl Jung, with Dr. Alfred Adler, was a distinguished pupil and devotee of Dr. Sigmund Freud. After playing a leading role in the psychoanalytical movement for several years, this eminent Swiss psychiatrist withdrew from the Freudian group and founded his own school, known subsequently as the school of Analytical Psychology.
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The Psychology of Religious and Ideological Conversion

Psychiatry, 1953
(1953). The Psychology of Religious and Ideological Conversion. Psychiatry: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 177-187.
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American psychology and the religious imagination

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2006
In just three generations, American psychology grew from a fledgling science to a culturally authoritative discipline. Standard accounts of psychology's meteoric rise typically omit what most needs to be illuminated: the resonance between psychological theory and the symbolic universe underlying America's popular religious imagination.
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Jonathan Edwards's Religious Psychology

The Journal of American History, 1983
Jonathan Edwards scholarship, thriving since the late 1940s when Perry Miller wrote his influential book on the great thinker, has flourished even more than usual in recent years with significant new books by Wallace E. Anderson, Norman Fiering, Terrence Erdt, and Patricia J. Tracy.
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Psychology and Religious Vocation

Life of the Spirit, 1946
Readers of the Life of the Spirit have good reason to be grateful to Père M. J. Nicolas, O.P. for his fine exposition of ‘The True Basis of Religious Life’. At the beginning of his article he raises one of the most difficult problems facing religious orders at the present day.
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The Psychology of Religious Dogma

Philosophy, 1930
The psychologist finds himself in disagreement with a method of treating religious dogma current amongst many philosophers and theologians who regard it as a purely intellectual matter with an entirely intellectual history. This tradition belongs not only to philosophers and theologians; students of comparative religions have, in the past, erred in the
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Psychology and Religious Truth

Nature, 1942
IN these lectures Dr. Hughes deals with some of the estimates of religion formed by psychologists. Freud's view that religion originates in the sex instinct is rejected by Dr. Hughes on the ground that this instinct is not itself fundamental but derivative from the will to live, which he regards as being the source of religion.
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Psychology’s Religious Roots

2010
During the period from around 1870 to 1900 Psychology acquired something resembling its current form as a purportedly scientific, institutionally based discipline. This is generally depicted as resulting primarily from (a) the extension, especially in Germany, of physiological experimental techniques to basic ‘psychophysical’ phenomena such as reaction-
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