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The challenge for the psychology of religion is essentially threefold: to provide a thoroughgoing description of the objects of investigation, whether they be shared religious content (e.g., a tradition's ritual observances) or individual experiences, attitudes, or conduct;
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the psychology of religion and spirituality. It was established in 2009 and is published by the American Psychological Association.
The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice by Kenneth Pargament was published in the United States in 1997. It is addressed to professional psychologists and researchers, and has been reviewed in many professional journals.
As part of this development, the psychology of religion emerged as a new approach to studying religious experience, with the US being the major centre of research in this field. [3] A few years earlier Edwin Diller Starbuck had written a book entitled Psychology of Religion which James had written a preface to.
The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to research on the psychology of religion.Its scope includes the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion.
The evolutionary psychology of religion is the study of religious belief using evolutionary psychology principles. It is one approach to the psychology of religion.As with all other organs and organ functions, the brain's functional structure is argued to have a genetic basis, and is therefore subject to the effects of natural selection and evolution.
Psychoanalysis has a long history of conceptualizing religious belief in terms of relationship between the self and others. [2] A religious believer's perception that they have a relationship with a deity or God leaves open the question of whether such a relationship is an attachment relation.
Kenneth Pargament is the author of the book Psychology of Religion and Coping and a leading researcher in religious coping. Along with developing the "RCOPE" questionnaire to measure religious coping strategies, [4] Pargament and his colleagues designated three basic styles of coping with stress. [5]