Bibliography of Cognitive Science and Religion


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Aletti, Mario; "The Psychology of Religion in Italy" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 2 (1992), pp. 171-190.


Alton, Bruce; "Before Method: Cognitive Aims in the Study of Religion " , Studies in Religion 18 pp. 415-425.


Anderson, John R.; "Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications" , Journal of Psychology and Christianity 11 p. 295f.


Azayem, Gamal Abou El, and Zari Hedayat-Diba; "The Psychological Aspects of Islam: Basic Principles of Islam and the Psychological Corollary" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 4 (1994), pp. 41-50.


Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin; "More Things in Heaven and Earth: Sharing the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 1 (1991), pp. 91-93.


Bowker, J.W.; "Information Process, Systems Behavior, and the Study of Religion " , Zygon 2 (1976), pp. 361-379.


Boyer, Pascal; The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion , Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.


Boyer, Pascal, ed; Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism , Canbridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.


Capps, W.; Ways of Understanding Religion , New York: MacMillan, 1972.


Day, James M.; "Speaking of Belief: Language, Performance, and Narrative in the Psychology of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 230-231.


Dembski, William A.; "Converting Matter Into Mind: The Philosopher's Stone on Cognitive Science " , Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 42 pp. 202-226.


Durbin, M.; "The Transformational Model of Linguistics and its Implications for an Ethnology of Religion: A Case Study of Jainism " , American Anthropologist 72 (1970), pp. 334-342.


Ferre, Frederick; "Metaphors, Models, and Religion " , Soundings 51 (1968), pp. 341-342.


Fowler, James W.; "Response to Helmut Reich: Overview or Apologetic?" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 145-172.


Gergen, Kenneth J.; "Belief as Relational Resource" , Interational Journal for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 231-236.


Grzmala-Moszczynska, Halina; "The Psychology of Religion in Poland" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 1 (1991), pp. 243-248.


Guthrie, Stewart; "A Cognitive Theory of Religion " , Current Anthropology 21 (1980), pp. 181-203.


Guthrie, Stewart Elliot; "Religion: What Is it? " , Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35 (1996), pp. 412-419.


Guthrie, Stewart Elliot; Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion , New York: Oxford UP, 1993.


Heimbrock, Hans-Gunter; "Psychoanalytic Understanding of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 1 (1991), pp. 71-89.


Helminiak, Daniel A.; "A Scientific Spirituality: The Interface of Psychology and Theology" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 6 (1996), pp. 1-20.


Hood, Ralph W.; "Mysticism, Reality, Illusion and the Freudian Critique of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 2 (1992), pp. 141-160.


Kirkpatrick, Lee A.; "An Attachment-Theory Approach to the Psychology of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 2 (1992), pp. 3-28.


Koenig, Harold G. ; " Religion as Cognitive Schema " , ," International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 5 pp. 31-37.


LaBarre, Weston; "Psychoanalysis and the Biology of Religion " , Journal of Psychological Anthropology 1 (1978), pp. 57-64.


Larsen, Jerry; "Religious Education and the Brain: On letting Cognitive Science Inform Religious Education " , Religious Education 88 pp. 80-96.


Lawson, E.T.; "Ritual as Language " , Religion 6 (1976), pp. 123-139.


Lawson, E. Thomas, and Robert N. McCauley; Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture , Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.


MacDonald, Coval B., and Jefferey B. Luckett; "Religious Affiliation and Psychiatric Diagnoses " , Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 22 (1983), pp. 15-37.


McCauley, R., and E.Lawson; "Functionalism Reconsidered " , History of Religions 23 (1984), pp. 372-381.


McDargh, John; "Rebuilding Fences and Opening Gates: Vergote on the Psychology of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 87-94.


Murken, Sebastian; "Believing in Speech: A Response to James Days Application of Narrative to the Psychology of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 237-240.


Noller, Patricia; "Religion Conceptualized as an Attachment Process: Another Deficiency Approach to the Psychology of Religion?" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 2 (1992), pp. 36-39.


Norager, Troels; "Metapsychology and Discourse: A Note on Some Neglected Issues in the Psychology of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 6 (1996), pp. 139-150.


OConnor, Kathleen; "Reconfiguring the Emotions in the Psychology of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 6 (1996), pp. 165-174.


OConnor, Kathleen; "The Psychology of Religion in Australia" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 1 (1991), pp. 41-59.


Pargament, Kenneth I., and Donald V. DeRosa; "What Was That Sermon About? Predicting Memory for Religious Messages from Cognitive Psychology Theory " , Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24 (1985), pp. 180-193.


Penner, H.; "Rationality and Religion: Problems in the Comparison of Modes of Thought " , Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54 (1986), pp. 645-671.


Preus, J.Samuel; Explaining Religion: Criticism and Theory from Bodin to Freud , New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.


Reich, K. Helmut; "Cognitive-Developmental Approaches to Religiousness: Which Version for Which Purpose" , International for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 145-172.


Richardson, James T.; "Two Steps Forward, One Back: Psychiatry, Psychology, and the New Religons" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 5 (1995), pp. 181-186.


Scarlett, W. George; "Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Comments on Tamminens Essay" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 4 (1994), pp. 87-90.


Shafranske, Edward P.; "A Psychoanalytic Response to Hood" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 2 (1992), pp. 161-164.


Socha, Pawel; "Religion and Emotional Dependence" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 5 (1995), pp. 187-198.


Spilka, Bernard S., and Lee Kirkpatrick; "A General Attribution Theory for the Psychology of Religion " , Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24 (1985), pp. 1-20.


Spilka, Bernard, and Greg Schmidt; "General Attribution Theory for the Psychology of Religion: The Influence of Event-Character on Attributions to God " , Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 22 (1983), pp. 326-339.


St.George, Arthur, and Patrick H. McNamara; "Religion, Race, and Psychological Well-Being " , Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 23 (1984), pp. 351-363.


Tamminen, Kalevi; "Religous Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence: A Viewpoint of Religious Development Between the Ages of 7 and 20" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 4 (1994), pp. 61-86.


van der Lans, Jan M.; "Interpretation of Religion Language and Cognitive Style: A Pilot Study with the Lam Scale" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 1 (1991), pp. 107-123.


Vergote, Antoine; "Debate Concerning the Psychology of Religion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 5 (1995), pp. 119-124.


Vergote, Antoine; "What the Psychology of Religion is and What it is Not" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 73-86.


Watts, Fraser N.; "Psychological and Religious Perspectives on Emotion" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 6 (1996), pp. 71-89.


Wikstrom, Owe; "The Psychology of Religion in Scandinavia" , International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 3 (1993), pp. 47-65.


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