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Psychology of religion is the academic discipline investigating religious experience, belief, and behavior. William James' (1902) Varieties of Religious Experience marked a quarter-century burst of research activity that faded into almost nothing with the advent of behaviorism. Since then the discipline has enjoyed a resurgence in the 1960s with the popularity of social psychology. Psychology of religion currently occupies a small but solid niche within the wider field of psychology.
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- Nielsen's Psychology of Religion
- Resources including online texts, course syllabi, bibliography, theoretical perspectives, and links to journals and professional organizations.
- Campaign for Forgiveness Research - Supports 46 innovative scientific projects on forgiveness and reconciliation on the individual, family, and national levels. Includes details of individual projects, a speakers bureau, and information and personal stories about how to forgive.
- Centre for Ministry Studies - Research center within the University of Wales at Bangor. Includes abstracts for much of Leslie Francis' published research.
- Centre for Psychology of Religion (Leuven) - Dirk Hutsebaut's research program within the Psychology Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Includes full-text articles for download.
- Centre for Psychology of Religion (Louvain) - Publication abstracts and contact details of research program at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), headed up by Jean-Marie Jaspard. Bilingual: French and English.
- Children's Spirituality Research - Don Ratcliff's collection of summaries of books reporting social science, historical, and biblical and theological research conducted on the topic of children's religion and spirituality.
- COG-SCI-REL-L - Archived cognitive science of religion email discussion list, focusing particularly on anthropological and cognitive developmental psychology research investigating the formation and transmission of religious ideas.
- Functional Origins of Religious Concepts - Essay by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer recounting theory and experimental evidence for the ontological and strategic selection of supernatural concepts.
- Psychological Influence in Spiritual Movements - A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements.
- Psychology and Christianity Project - Research program at University of Cambridge seeking to apply psychology to the work of the Church.
- Psychology and Religion - Collection of annotated links from Nikitas Kafkios. Categories include resources dealing with integration, anti-psychology sites, journals, and bibliographies.
- S.P.i.R.i.T. Research Group - Spirituality and psychology research team at Bowling Green State University, headed by Kenneth Pargament and Annette Mahoney. Brief description of research areas, contact details, and profiles of directors.
- Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program - Funding program for investigation into the sociocultural, psychological and neurological factors that underlie the processes of spiritual transformations of individuals and groups. Includes literature review, timeline, and details of winning grants.
- Spirituality Research - Publishes empirical research on spirituality. It offers a conceptual and a graphic model of spirituality, and a questionnaire designed to measure the strengths of spiritual beliefs.
- Virtual Religion Index: Psychology of Religion - Directory of resources covering religious experience, therapies, and psychological theory.
- Are We Hardwired for God? - The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained". (February 7, 2002)
- Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality - Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion. (June 17, 2001)
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