Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 29 / Andrew Village, Ralph W. Hood.

• TeilnehmendeR: Village, Andrew,; Hood, Ralph W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 pages)

The general papers in Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 29 cover a range of topics including psychological type, prayer, nature and well-being, psychobiography, coping with addiction, and the role of place in spirituality. The first special section on congregational studies...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Manuscript Invitation
• Authors’ Biographies
• Ordering the Mess: Psychological Type Profiles of Adults in Messy Church Congregations / Amanda Dawn Aspland
• The Psychological Temperament of Catholic Priests and Religious Sisters in Italy: An Empirical Enquiry / Leslie J. Francis and Giuseppe Crea
• The Psychological Type of Individuals Attracted to Celtic Christianity Compared with the Psychological Type of Anglican Congregations / Gill Hall and Douglas Hall
• Lighting Candles and Writing Prayers: Observing Opportunities for Spiritual Practices in Churches in Rural Cornwall / Tania ap Siôn
• Investigating the Many Facets of Spirituality that Mediate the Relationship between Exposure to Nature and Psychological Well-Being / Brooke M. Ruf , David C. Wang and John K. Williams
• A Nonviolent Identity: A Psychobiographical Study of an Islamic Scholar / Tomas Lindgren
• The Pragmatic Believer—Faith Development and Personal Experiences of a ‘Higher Power’ in Seasoned Members of Narcotics Anonymous / John-Kåre Vederhus and Magnhild Høie
• The Circle of Place Spirituality (CoPS): Towards an Attachment and Exploration Motivational Systems Approach in the Psychology of Religion / Victor Counted
• The Place of Place within the Attachment-Religion Framework: A Commentary on the Circle of Place Spirituality / Joel Gruneau Brulin and Pehr Granqvist
• The National Church Life Survey in Australia
• Twenty-Five Years of Data on Australian Churches: Strengths and Limitations / Miriam Pepper , Ruth Powell , Sam Sterland and Nicole Hancock
• Vitality in Protestant Congregations: A Large Scale Empirical Analysis of Underlying Factors across Four Countries / Sam Sterland , Ruth Powell , Miriam Pepper and Nicole Hancock
• Newcomers and Collective Confidence in Protestant Churches: A Longitudinal Study from 2001 to 2011 / Sam Sterland , Ruth Powell , Nicole Hancock , Miriam Pepper and Martin Dowson
• Why Do They Belong? Factors Influencing Sense of Belonging in Australian Catholic Parishes / Robert Dixon and Dharmalingam Arunachalam
• Local Churches and Innovativeness: An Empirical Study of 2800 Australian Churches / Ruth Powell and Miriam Pepper
• Applications of the Ideological Surround Model
• Mindfulness within a Muslim Ideological Surround: Empirical Translation Schemes and Religious and Psychological Functioning of Islamic Seminarians in Iran / Nima Ghorbani , P. J. Watson , Fazlollaha Tavakoli and Zhuo Job Chen
• Fundamentalism within an Indian Ideological Surround: Commitment to Religious Tradition Predicts Hindu Openness / Shanmukh V. Kamble , P. J. Watson , Deepti B. Duggi and Zhuo Job Chen
• Sanctification of Learning and Religious Openness: Contrasts across Religious Fundamentalist and Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surrounds / P. J. Watson , Zhuo Job Chen and Ronald J. Morris
• Religion within a Dark Triad Ideological Surround: Pluralistic Self as Dialogue across Private, Communal, and Public Space / P. J. Watson , Zhuo Job Chen , Ronald J. Morris and Nima Ghorbani
• Back Matter
• Index.