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Psychology of religion – a reading list

Posted on 2005 August 01 by Auke Slotegraaf - filed under Psychology

Brown, C. & Nagasawa, Y. (2005) Anything you can do, God can do better. American Philosophical Quarterly, 42(3), 221-227.

Bylski, N. C. & Westman, A. S. (1991) Relationships among defense style, existential anxiety, and religiosity. Psychol. Rep., 68, 1389-1390.

Cornwall, M. (1989) The Determinants of Religious Behavior: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test. Social Forces, 68, 572 - 592.

Dorahy M J, Schumaker J F, Krishnamurthy, B. & Kumar P. (1997) Religious ritual and dissociation in India and Australia. J Psy 131(5) 471-476.

Dudley, RT (1999) Social acceptability of paranormal and religious beliefs. Psy. Rep., 85, 255-256

Duncan, D. F., Donnelly, J. W. & Nicholson, T. (1992) Belief in the paranormal and religious belief among American college students. Psychol. Rep., 70, 15-18.

Dupre, L. (1999) On the intellectual sources of moden atheism. International J. for Philosophy of Religion, 45, 1-11.

Eve, RA & Harrold, FB (1986) Creationism, cult archaeology, and other pseudoscientific beliefs: A study of college students. Youth & Society, 17(4), 396-421.

Francis, L. J., Kerr, S. & Lewis, C. A. (2005) Assessing attitude towards Christianity among adolescents in South Africa: The Francis Scale. South African Journal of Psychology, 35(1), 147-155.

Gnaulati, E. & Heine, B. J. (1997) Parental bonding and religiosity in young adulthood. Psy Rep 81 1171.

Gould, SJ (1997) Nonoverlapping Magisteria: Science and religion are not in conflict, for their teachings occupy distinctly different domains. Natural History, 3, 16...72

Hergovich, A., Willinger, U. & Arendasy, M. (2005) Paranormal beliefs, schizotypy and body mass index. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 100, 883-891.

Maltby, J. (1997) Personality correlates of religiosity among adults in the Republic of Ireland. Psy Rep 81 827

Maltby, J. (1999) Personality dimensions of religious orientation. J. Psychol., 133(6), 631-640

McClain, E. W. (1978) Personality Differences Between Intrinsically Religious and Nonreligious Students: A Factor Analytic Study, J. Pers. Assess., 42, 159 - 166.

Nasel, D. D. & Haynes, W. D. G. (2005) Spiritual and Religious Dimensions Scale: Development and psychometric analysis. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57(1), 61-71.

Nicholas LJ, Durrheim, K (1996) Validity of the Rohrbaugh and Jessor Religiosity Scale. Percep Motor Skills 83 89

Pancer, S.M., Jackson, L.M., Hunsberger, B., Pratt, M.W. & Lea, J. (1995) "Religious orthodoxy and the complexity of thought about religious and nonreligious issues" J Pers 63(2) 213.

Pargament, KI, Zinnbauer BJ, Scott, AB, Butter, EM, Zerowin, J & Stanik, P. (1998) Red flags and religious coping: Identifying some religious warning signs among people in crisis. J Clin Psy 54(1) 777-89.

Pederson D M (1996) Religion and self-identity. Percep Motor Skills 82 1369.

Persaud, R. (1999) "The Location of God?" UK Financial Times, 8 May

Persinger, M. A. & Makarec, K. (1990) Exotic beliefs may be substitutes for religious beliefs. Psychol. Rep., 71, 16-18.

Persinger, M. A. (1984) People who report religious experiences may also display enhanced temporal-lobe signs. Percep. Motor Skills, 58, 963-975.

Persinger, M. A. (1991) Preadolescent religious experience enhances temporal lobe signs in normal young adults. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 72, 453-454.

Persinger, M. A. (1993) Paranormal and Religious Beliefs May Be Mediated Differentially by Subcortical and Cortical Phenomenological Processes of the Temporal (Limbic) Lobes. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, 247 - 251.

Persinger, M. A. (1993) Vectorial cerebral hemisphericity as differential sources for the sensed presence, mystical experiences and religious conversions. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, 915-930.

Persinger, MA (1997) 'I would kill in God's name:' Role of sex, weekly church attendance, report of a religious experience, and limbic lability. Percep Motor Skills 85 128-130

Peters, E, Day, S, McKenna, J & Orbach, G. (1999) Delusional ideation in religious and psychotic populations. Brit. J. Clin. Psychol., 38, 83-96.

Quiles, Z N & Bybee, J. (1997) Chronic and predispositional guilt: Relations to mental health, prosocial behavior and religiosity. J Pers Assess, 69(1), 104-126

Rife, J. & Lester, D. (1997) Religiosity and psychological disturbance. Psy Rep 81 978.

Roman, RE & Lester, D (1999) Religiosity and mental health. Psy Rep., 85, 1088.

Schmied, L. A. & Jost, K. J. (1994) Church attendance, religiosity and health. Psychol. Rep., 74, 145-146.

Schumm, W. R. (2003) A statistical comparison of the apparent importance of various prophets within early Islamic and Christian historical documents. Psychological Reports, 93, 472-474.

Schumm, W. R. (2003) Themes observed in early Qur'anic material: A brief commentary on Michael Sells' text, Approaching the Qur'an. Psychological Reports, 93, 1291-1294.

Shepherd, W. C. (1972) Religion and the counter culture - a new religiosity. Sociological Inquiry, 42, 3-9.

Svensen, S. G., White, K. D., & Caird, D. (1992) Replications and resolutions: dualistic belief, personality, religiosity, and paranormal beliefs in Australian students. J. Psychol., 126, 445 - 447.

Tobacyk, J. (1983) Paternal identification and religious beliefs. Psy. Rep., 52, 402.

Tori, CD (1999) Change on psychological scales following Buddhist and Roman Catholic retreats. Psychol. Rep., 84, 125-126

Tourney, CP (1994) God's own scientists: A creationist study group grapples with Darwin. Natural History, 7, 4-9

Westman, A & Campbell, E. (1999) God-mediated control, religiousness, attributes of God and of the ideal religious life. Psychol. Rep., 84, 585-586.

Westman, A. S., Brackney, B. E. & Bylski, N. C. (1992) Religious beliefs are socialized in the same way as are other beliefs. Psychol. Rep., 70, 1107-1110.

Westman, AS (1997) Religiosity correlates with failure to understand scientifc methods and findings. Psy Rep 80 161

Williams, R. N., Taylor, C. B. & Hintze, W. J. (1989) The influence of religious orientation on belief in science, religion and the paranormal. J. Psychol. Theol., 17, 352 - 359.

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