The Psychology of Religion
The Psychology of Religion

Author: Vassilis Saroglou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1351255932

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Does religion positively affect well-being? What leads to fundamentalism? Do religious beliefs make us more moral? The Psychology of Religion explores the often contradictory ideas people have about religion and religious faiths, spirituality, fundamentalism, and atheism. The book examines whether we choose to be religious, or whether it is down to factors such as genes, environment, personality, cognition, and emotion. It analyses religion’s effects on morality, health, and social behavior and asks whether religion will survive in our modern society. Offering a balanced view, The Psychology of Religion shows that both religiosity and atheism have their own psychological costs and benefits, with some of them becoming more salient in certain environments.

Psychological Theories of Religion
Psychological Theories of Religion

Author: James Forsyth

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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This book surveys the major theorists in the psychology of religion--Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, William James, Erich Fromm, Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow and Viktor Frankl--who are all seminal thinkers and represent the classical theories in this field. Each of these theorists presents a more or less comprehensive theory of religion, which attempts to give an account of the psychological origin and/or value of religion. The approach of the book, in each case, shows how the theory of religion emerges not only from the theorist's psychological theory, but also from his own life experience. Each chapter contains an introductory overview of the theory, biographical material on the theorist, his theory of personality, his theory of religion, and an evaluation of the theory of religion. This consistent chapter format discusses the theorists' influence on the field, points out some developments from and reactions to the theory, and raises certain questions in order to stimulate readers' own critical responses. For individuals who wants to view--and better understand--religion from the psychological perspective.

How God Works
How God Works

Author: David DeSteno

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1982142324

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Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them—and to anyone, regardless of their faith (or lack thereof). Scientists are beginning to discover what believers have known for a long time: the rewards that a religious life can provide. For millennia, people have turned to priests, rabbis, imams, shamans, and others to help them deal with issues of grief and loss, birth and death, morality and meaning. In this absorbing work, DeSteno reveals how numerous religious practices from around the world improve emotional and physical well-being. With empathy and rigor, DeSteno chronicles religious rites and traditions from cradle to grave. He explains how the Japanese rituals surrounding childbirth help strengthen parental bonds with children. He describes how the Apache Sunrise Ceremony makes teenage girls better able to face the rigors of womanhood. He shows how Buddhist meditation reduces hostility and increases compassion. He demonstrates how the Jewish practice of sitting shiva comforts the bereaved. And much more. DeSteno details how belief itself enhances physical and mental health. But you don’t need to be religious to benefit from the trove of wisdom that religion has to offer. Many items in religion’s “toolbox” can help the body and mind whether or not one believes. How God Works offers advice on how to incorporate many of these practices to help all of us live more meaningful, successful, and satisfying lives.

The Psychology Of Religion
The Psychology Of Religion

Author: Bernard Spilka

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0429964463

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Theory in the psychology of religion is in a state of rapid development, and the present volume demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that will in turn encourage exploration in many directions. A number of new contributions are collected with previously published pieces to illustrate the

The Psychology of Religion and Place
The Psychology of Religion and Place

Author: Victor Counted

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 303028848X

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This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people’s understanding of their environment. The contributors consider how understandings and experiences of religious and place connections are motivated by the need to seek and maintain contact with perceptual objects, so as to form meaningful relationship experiences. The volume is one of the first scholarly attempts to discuss the psychological links between place and religious experiences.The chapters within provide insights for understanding how people’s experiences with geographical places and the sacred serve as agencies for meaning-making, pro-social behaviour, and psychological adjustment in everyday life.

A Psychological Study of Religion; Its Origin, Function, and Future
A Psychological Study of Religion; Its Origin, Function, and Future

Author: James Henry Leuba

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781230307282

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THEOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY I. The Situation; the Propositions of Empirical Theology; the Documental Evidence "Le conflit entre Ie christianisme et la science a delate" d'abord sur le terrain cosmologique; la lutte s'est transported ensuite sur le terrain de la biologie; elle se trouve maintenant sur celui de la psychologic" Theodore Flournoy, unpublished lecture. One of the results of the scientific and philosophical activity of the past century has been to convince the best informed among the theologians who have remained Christians in the traditional sense of the word, that science and metaphysics are not the allies but the enemies of their beliefs.1 This conviction has resulted in an energetic effort to render theology independent of science and metaphysics. Should this endeavor succeed, it would be a matter of indifference to religion that historical criticism contests the authenticity of portions of the Bible, that physical science denies miracles, and that psychology explains by natural means revelation and conversion. Ritschlianism, the only recent system of theology that 1 The metaphysicians have themselves compelled this recognition, even those of the English school of Hegelians. See on this an instructive and delightfully written chapter in Schiller's Studies in Humanism, on " Absolutism and Religion," especially pages 283-288; and note his reference to McTaggart's Some Dogmas of Religion. has given evidence of vitality, marks the culmination of this effort. To save religion, Ritschl1 took the bold step of claiming a radical separation between Christian theology and what he called " theoretical " knowledge. He alleges in justification a specific difference between religious and non-religious knowledge. "It is...

An Introduction to Psychology of Religion
An Introduction to Psychology of Religion

Author: Robert W. Crapps

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780865541955

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Developed in almost thirty years of classroom experience, this book is designed to introduce students and other readers to the psychological study of religion. Robert W. Crapps deals with the major questions and figures that have dominated the psychological study of religion over the past century, dividing the discussion into four parts. Two chapters in part one suggest the problems and possibilities for the psychological study of religion in light of the nature of religion and the scientific method. Part two sketches the contributions to the study of religion of three intellectual currents in contemporary psychology: psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanistic psychology. part three explores the relationship between religion and human development, while part four directs attention to religious lifestyles and that weave differentiated parts of human experience into a cohesive whole. -- Publisher description.