This chapter discusses progress in the psychology of religion by highlighting its rapid growth
during the past 25 years. Recent conceptual and empirical developments are described …

Because society is increasingly secular, it may seem irrelevant to consider the psychology of
religion. But the diversity of our multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society in fact makes religion …

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new theoretically based measure
that would assess the full range of religious coping methods, including potentially helpful …

" Acts of Faith is the single'big book'in the sociology of religion in the past decade, a
monumental effort that both demolishes old theories and creates brilliant new ones. Stark …

Proposing that personal goals are what give meaning to life, this volume explores the role
played by spirituality and religion in investing goals with significance. The concept of …

This article explores spirituality as a form of intelligence. The evidence for spirituality as a set
of capacities and abilities that enable people to solve problems and attain goals in their …

Constructivist theories recently have begun to inform understandings of grief, emphasizing
the role of meaning making in adaptation to bereavement. In this article we review empirical …

A total of 268 medically ill, elderly, hospitalized patients responded to measures of religious
coping and spiritual, psychological and physical functioning at baseline and follow-up two …

The authors reviewed 94 studies published in journals since 1980 on religion and marital or
parental functioning. Meta-analytic techniques were used to quantify religion–family …

Religion invests human existence with meaning by establishing goals and value systems
that potentially pertain to all aspects of a persons' life. A goals approach provides a general …