Directory of Psychology and Religion Resources

Home > Science > Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychology and Religion

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.

Subcategories

• Buddhist Psychology
• Christian Integration
• Conferences
• Education
• Forgiveness
• Islam and Psychology
• Journals
• Neurotheology
• New Religious Movements
• Organizations
• People
• Religion-Based Counseling
• Religious Experience
• Transpersonal Psychology

Resources in This Category

• Are We Hardwired for God?

  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/07/londonreviewofbooks
  The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".

• COG-SCI-REL-L

  http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/COG-SCI-REL-L.html
  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.

• Nielsen's Psychology of Religion

  http://www.psychwww.com/psyrelig/index.htm
  Resources including online texts, course syllabi, bibliography, theoretical perspectives, and links to journals and professional organizations.

• Psychological Influence in Spiritual Movements

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/psymove.html
  A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements.

• Psychology and Religion

  http://www.psyche.gr/english.htm
  Collection of annotated links from Nikitas Kafkios. Categories include resources dealing with integration, anti-psychology sites, journals, and bibliographies.

Related Categories

• Home > Science > Science in Society > Science and Religion
• Home > Society > Religion and Spirituality > Religious Studies > Sociology of Religion
• Home > Society > Religion and Spirituality > Religious Studies

Other Languages

• German

 

Home > Science > Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychology and Religion

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us