This study describes the current state of qualitative psychology and gives an overview of the
philosophical paradigms used in English language qualitative psychology studies from the …

Not much is known about large-scale brain activation patterns in religious states of mind and
previous studies have not set an emphasis on experience. The present study investigated …

Is it possible to identify specific familial patterns as antecedents of adult membership in new
religious movements? Can the choice of an NRM be predicted by the childhood experiences …

This study attempts to derive the empirically based typology of religious conversion by
means of cluster analysis. The research sample consisted of 179 participants who defined …

ABSTRACT A number of studies have examined religious transformations. But most of this
work has been concerned with identifying different types of transformations and steps in the …

The aim of this study was to show the preferences of terminal values of personal and social
character and the level of religious experience: God's presence and God's absence, as well …

Positive changes or transformations have been the subject of study within spiritual traditions
as well as humanistic and transpersonal psychology. The aim of the current study is to …

A Theology of Religious Change asks a simple question with a complicated answer: Why do
people change religious faiths? The study invites its readers on a trek through sociological …

A key legacy of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II was the concept of the new
evangelization. This, amongst other things, was seen as a response to rising levels of …

This study discusses the meaning, causes (motivation) as well as the process of religious
conversion and how it affects the behavior of a person who reviewed from the perspective of …