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Essay by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer recounting theory and experimental evidence for the ontological and strategic selection of supernatural concepts.
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Malinowski Lecture What is the origin of religious concepts? How come we can find concepts of supernatural agency more or less the world over, with important recurrent features? This lecture is a ‘progress report an account of how these previously intractable questions...Resources including online texts, course syllabi, bibliography, theoretical perspectives, and links to journals and professional organizations.
http://www.psychwww.com/psyrelig/index.htm
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.
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UCL Centre for Psychology of Religion Department of psychology and education Centre for psychology of religion Bienvenue Welcome 149; Prsentation 149; Adresse responsable 149; Les personnes 149; Publications 149; Recherches en cours 149; Doctorats rcents 149; Cours Sminaire 149; DEA-Doctorat 149; Nouvelles 149; Liens 149; Presentation...A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements.
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PSYCHOLOGY OF SPIRITUAL SECTS. The psychological dynamics underlying the creation and growth of spiritual movements. I have been in contact with spiritual movements or read up on them. I have been interested particularly in their influence on its members, who I have followed now for a considerable number of years all over the world. I...Research program at University of Cambridge seeking to apply psychology to the work of the Church.
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Psychology Christianity Project Regular stuff here...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.
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SPIRITHOME The purpose of this site is to publish the results of a research study that utilized scientific methods in order to define the concept of Spirituality The study was conducted under the auspices of the University of Georgia's school of...Douglas Degelman's directory of resources related to the integration of psychology with religion, sexuality, science, and prayer.
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/...n/amoebaweb/index.cfm?doc_id=870
Directory of resources covering religious experience, therapies, and psychological theory.
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Virtual Religion Index It is now located at http virtualreligion.net/vri/ Note the change of domain Please notify the source of the link that landed you here. This page was revised 02 December 2004 Copyright 1997- 2004 by Mahlon H Smith All rights reserved....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.
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Archives of COG-SCI-REL-L@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Cognitive science of religion list The cog-sci-rel-l mailing list serves the interdisciplinary community of scholars researching the cognitive science of religion. Its purpose is to share ideas, discuss potential collaboration, announce events and forthcoming publications, seek advice, and generally keep...Dirk Hutsebaut's research program within the Psychology Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Includes full-text articles for download.
http://www.psy.kuleuven.ac.be/religion/religion.htm
Research center within the University of Wales at Bangor. Includes abstracts for much of Leslie Francis' published research.
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Practical Theology Welcome to the home of practical and empirical theology in Bangor. Here we work at the interface between church and academy, between academy and religious education. Our aim is to achieve excellence in research and in teaching, in ways which...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.
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BGSU Psyc Department S.P.i.R.i.T. Research Group T gained national recognition in APA's recent Monitor on Psychology (December, 2003, pp. 44-45 The article highlighted the diverse religious perspectives represented by SPiRiT members, the multiple research topics SPiRiT pursues and the integration of SPiRiT research into real world...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.
http://www.metanexus.net/spiritual_transformation/
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.
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Children's Spirituality Research Page Page provides summaries of key books on research related to children's spirituality, links to databases that include journal articles on this topic, and links to web sites that are associated with organizations that encourage or are associated with research in...Collection of annotated links from Nikitas Kafkios. Categories include resources dealing with integration, anti-psychology sites, journals, and bibliographies.
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