Psychology Of Religion

Bernard Spilka is professor of psychology at the University of Denver and the co-editor or co-author of several books including Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach, second edition. Daniel N. McIntosh is assistant professor of psychology at the University of Denver.

• Preface, Part 1 Where We Are and Where We Should Go, An Agenda Item for Psychology of Religion: Getting Respect, Toward Motivational Theories of Intrinsic Religious Commitment, Commentary: Where We Are and Where We Should Go, Part 2 Why Religion? Functions of Religious Beliefs and Behavior, Toward a Theory of Religion: Religious Commitment, In Times of Stress: The Religion-Coping Connection, Proposed Agenda for a Spiritual Strategy in Personality and Psychotherapy, Commentary: Why Religion? Functions of Religious Belief and Behavior, Part 3 Social Concerns, An Integrated Role Theory for the Psychology of Religion: Concepts and Perspectives, Religion and Moral Evaluation Discrepancy Theory, Commentary: Social Concerns, Part 4 Development of Individual Religion, The Origins of Religion in the Child, Integrating Differing Theories: The Case of Religious Development, An Attachment-Theory Approach to the Psychology of Religion, Commentary: Development of Individual Religion, Part 5 Believing Is Seeing: How Religion Shapes Our Worlds, Attribution Theory and the Psychology of Religion, A General Attribution Theory for the Psychology of Religion, Religion-as-Schema, with Implications for the Relation Between Religion and Coping, Toward an Attitude Process Model of Religious Experience, In the Eye of the Beholder: A Social-Cognitive Model of Religious Belief, Commentary: Believing Is Seeing-How Religion Shapes Our World, Part 6 The Experience of Religion, A Taxonomy of Religious Experience, Rodney Stark, The Empirical Study of Mysticism, Commentary: The Experience of Religion, References, About the Book, About the Editors and Contributors, Index