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See Also:

• science → science in society → science and religion
• society → religion and spirituality → religious studies
• society → religion and spirituality → religious studies → sociology of religion

Links

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.

Centre for Psychology of Religion (Louvain) 
http://www.psp.ucl.ac.be/psyreli/prel-eng.htm

Publication abstracts and contact details of research program at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), headed up by Jean-Marie Jaspard. Bilingual: French and English.

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 Christianity Project 
http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/pcp/

Research program at University of Cambridge seeking to apply psychology to the work of the Church.

Spirituality Research 
http://www.geocities.com/randynied/home.html

Publishes empirical research on spirituality. It offers a conceptual and a graphic model of spirituality, and a questionnaire designed to measure the strengths of spiritual beliefs.

Functional Origins of Religious Concepts 
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/bec/papers/boyer_religious_concepts.htm

Essay by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer recounting theory and experimental evidence for the ontological and strategic selection of supernatural concepts.

Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality 
http://www.maps.org/media/vedantam.html

Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion.

Are We Hardwired for God? 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4351726,00.html

The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".

Virtual Religion Index: Psychology of Religion 
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~religion/vri/psych.html

Directory of resources covering religious experience, therapies, and psychological theory.

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.

Centre for Psychology of Religion (Leuven) 
http://www.psy.kuleuven.ac.be/religion/religion.htm

Dirk Hutsebaut's research program within the Psychology Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Includes full-text articles for download.

Campaign for Forgiveness Research 
http://www.forgiving.org/

Supports 46 innovative scientific projects on forgiveness and reconciliation on the individual, family, and national levels. Includes details of individual projects, a speakers bureau, and information and personal stories about how to forgive.

Centre for Ministry Studies 
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/rs/pt/index.php

Research center within the University of Wales at Bangor. Includes abstracts for much of Leslie Francis' published research.

S.P.i.R.i.T. Research Group 
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/psych/Facultyprograms.html/SPIRIT.htm

Spirituality and psychology research team at Bowling Green State University, headed by Kenneth Pargament and Annette Mahoney. Brief description of research areas, contact details, and profiles of directors.

Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program 
http://www.metanexus.net/spiritual_transformation/

Funding program for investigation into the sociocultural, psychological and neurological factors that underlie the processes of spiritual transformations of individuals and groups. Includes literature review, timeline, and details of winning grants.

Children's Spirituality Research 
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/dratcliff/childspirituality/

Don Ratcliff's collection of summaries of books reporting social science, historical, and biblical and theological research conducted on the topic of children's religion and spirituality.

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.

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