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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Psychology, Religious."”.
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The beef debate: Religion, history, and harmony in India
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Conditional reflection and the Religion Reflection Scale: How familiarity with different domains influences cognitive reflection
… host of research has shown that those who are nonreligious tend to outscore those who are religious on measures of intelligence and cognitive reflection. The prevailing explanation for this phenomenon is that nonreligious people are more adept at overriding their initial intuitions, thus leading …
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Towards an implicit measure of religiousness-spirituality.
… between a newly-developed implicit measure of religiousness-spirituality, well-validated explicit measures and pro-social behavior. In Study 1, undergraduates (n = 109) at a private institution completed self-report measures of a broad spectrum of religiousness-spirituality and related …
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A redefinition of the psychology of religion; with special reference to certain psychological theories of Gordon W. Allport
… is (1) to offer a redefinition of the psychology of religion in light of its historic and contemporary status; (2) to discover the flaccid aspects traditionally present in the psychology of religion and invigorate these aspects with contemporary psychological theories, especially …
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An exploration of the relationships among religious orientation, object relations, and positive adjustment
… This study explored the relationships between Religious Orientations, Positive Adjustment, and Object Relations. Intrinsics live by their religion, whereas Extrinsics use their religion for other ends (Allport & Ross, 1967), and Questers explore religion (Batson & Schoenrade, 1991a, 1991b). …
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Who's being transcended?: the role of belief of other as self in mediating the relationship between mystical experience and mental health
Throughout history humans have experienced instances where the boundary between self and other dissolved, and the ordinary sense of “I” was replaced with a unity to all of existence or a higher power. These are commonly referred to as mystical experiences, and although the relationship between …
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Religious Belief, Coping, and Mental Health in Seventh-day Adventists
<p>The present study examines religious belief, coping style, and social support influences on psychological adjustment in 401 Seventh-day Adventists. Based on cross cultural psychology guidelines, Adventist Sabbath and eschatology belief measures were created and integrated into a religious coping …
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Training of observers in risk rituals of the Manasa sect of Hinduism and serpent handling sects of Appalachia
… potential for injury or death, will be coined a religious risk ritual (RR). Observers will examine examples of video from the Manasa Hindu tradition in India and the Pentecostal and Holiness Serpent Handling traditions (SHS) of the southern Appalachian Mountain region of the United States. While …
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Perceived Stress, Religious Coping Styles, and Collectivism of Korean-Americans
… the associations among perceived stress, religious coping styles (Self-Directing, Collaborative, and Deferring), and collectivism in two generations of Korean-Americans. Three scales (Perceived Stress, Collectivism, and Religious Problem Solving) were administered to 145 first and second …
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Church Member Reactions to Religious Disaffiliation
<p>Religious disaffiliation is a growing trend in the United States, with estimates of between 15% through 20% of Americans identifying that they have no religion and this rate is growing by roughly 1% each year. Nearly all research concerning religious disaffiliation has focused on the individuals …
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The Psychology of Self-Surrender: A Contemplative-Hermeneutic Study
… nature of self-surrender as a psycho-spiritual/religious phenomenon that is grounded in direct experience. As such, this study draws on an integrative methodology that synthesizes elements of applied hermeneutics with autoethnography and contemplative practice. The author conducts an applied …
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An Interoperative Phenomenological Analysis of Hindu Psychologists and the Impact of Hinduism on Their Clinical Work
… an open dialogue around the use of spiritual and religious beliefs in psychotherapy. It is an important point of inquiry for both research and clinical psychology, as it broadens the discourse around integrated healthcare and diversity.</p>
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Navigating Pain: Women's Healing Practices in a Hindu Temple
… ailments that manifest as spirit afflictions. Religious healing centers constitute the single most popular pathway of mental health care for Indian women. These folk sites, based on etiologies of supernatural affliction and healing through participation in possession trance rituals, are, …
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Faith and (un)certainty in the writing of stowe, hawthorne, and dickinson: the intersecting language of theology and feminism
… Is a crisis of meaning threatening to the religious sensibility? Looking at Hawthorne's <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> and specific poems of Dickinson, I show how their writing gestures to a kind of religious sensibility that is not threatened by such a crisis, but suggests, rather, that it is …