Becker suggests that with religion’s decreased power in society many have turned to psychology as their immortality project. Psychology offers them the hope to transcend character.

Religious people facing life crises rely on emotion-regulation strategies that psychologists also use, a new study finds. They look for positive ways of thinking about hardship, a practice known ...

The acrimony between the fields of psychology and religion have been cultivated by both sides, which is particularly unfortunate as both fields share many of the same concerns, and in our complex ...

Journal of Religion and Health is an international publication concerned with the creative partnership of psychology and religion/sprituality and the relationship between religion/spirituality and ...

THERE is an undoubted movement of thought towards a restatement of religion and religious problems along the lines of recent psychological achievement. This has already taken the place, to a large ...

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR) publishes articles, notes, book reviews and letters which explicitly address the problems of methodology and theory in the academic study of religion.

Psychology and religion work in much the same territory, wrestling with big questions about personal meaning, relationships and life. Commentator Aaron Freeman found that, for his family, religion ...

Yale psychology professor Laurie Santos explained that speculations about the evolutionary origins of religion as a byproduct of other processes are plausible but still remain very uncertain.

In part 2 of this special Darwin Day podcast, Hofstra University religion professor John Teehan discusses the study of religion from an evolutionary psychology perspective ...

Presbyterian James H. Robinson, 45 and a Negro, knows the taste of race prejudice. A Tennessee boy who went to college in Pennsylvania, he came near being lynched years ago when he went back to ...