Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
Mental Illness and the Church
Integrating Psychology & Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Mental Illness and the Church: Integrating Psychology & Theology When I began studying the disciplines of Psychology and Theology as a bi-vocational pastor, I didnt consider them to be at odds with each other; I viewed them rather as complimentary, one supporting the other. Little did I realize,...
by Thomas Hywel Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
An attempt is made in this book to open a new line of thought in theology with the aid of Psychology. The author strives to throw light on the basic truths of religion from a new angle and to adopt a different attitude to that usually taken by theologians.
He believes that there is still more...
Forgiveness - A review on a new trend of psychological and medical research under theological aspects
A review on a new trend of psychological and medical research under theological aspects
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Psychology - Psychology of Religion, grade: 1 (A), University of Graz (Institute for Religion pedagogy), course: Psychology of Religion, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: While the concept of forgiveness is known to any Christian...
Mind and Religion
Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2005
Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious...
Neurotheology
How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Religion is often cast in opposition to science. Yet both are deeply rooted in the inner workings of the human brain. With the advent of the modern cognitive neurosciences, the scientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena has become far more sophisticated and wide-ranging. What might brain...
by J. Christopher Garrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2001
From the FOREWORD by Dan G. Blazer, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
"Occasionally, a writer on psychology and biblical faith comes along who can work 'from the center.' J. Christopher Garrison is such a writer. Let me explain what I mean by working from...
Spiritual Psychology
A Path to Our Transcendent Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In today’s world there is a New Science and there is an Old Science. There is an Old Traditional form of Religion and there is a New form of Spirituality. There is Quantum Physics (the New Science), Epigenetics (the New Biology), an Old Psychology and a New Psychology (Spiritual or Transpersonal...
Psychology and Spiritual Formation in Dialogue
Moral and Spiritual Change in Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Can the phenomena of the human mind be separated from the practices of spiritual formation—of growing to have the mind of Christ? Research into the nature of moral and spiritual change has revived in recent years in the worlds of psychology on one hand and theology and philosophy on the other. But...
The Link between Religion and Health
Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2002
This book is the first to present new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and to examine the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for society and culture. The distinguished list of contributors examine a series of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)...
The Dogma of Christ
and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The essays in this fascinating volume examine present-day psychological and cultural problems with the keen insight and humanistic sympathies characteristic of Erich Fromm’s work.
The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the contemporary world...
by Horatio W. Dresser
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
There is a tradition that certain subjects are sacred and can never become matters of scientific inquiry. One of these ineffable subjects is the relationship of God to man in the highest ranges of human experience, particularly in those beatific moments when, in expectant solitude or social worship,...
Can Science Explain Religion?
The Cognitive Science Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The "New Atheist" movement of recent years has put the science-versus-religion controversy back on the popular cultural agenda. Anti-religious polemicists are convinced that the application of the new sciences of the mind to religious belief gives them the final weapons in their battle against irrationality...
by Thomas G. Plante Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In an effort to alter behavior, scientists have conducted research to better understand the factors that contribute to both caring and cruel behavior among individuals and groups. This uplifting volume reviews this evidence—from experts across disciplines—and explains how certain psychological,...
Darwin's Apple
The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Darwin’s Apple proposes a new explanation for the origin and purpose of religion within the incontrovertible theory of evolution. It describes how religion is biologically adaptive and genetically evolved through the co-evolution of religion, ritual, and advanced human cognition.
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