Psychology of religion is the academic discipline investigating religious experience, belief, and behavior. William James' (1902) Varieties of Religious Experience marked a quarter-century burst of research activity that faded into almost nothing with the advent of behaviorism. Since then the discipline has enjoyed a resurgence in the 1960s with the popularity of social psychology. Psychology of religion currently occupies a small but solid niche within the wider field of psychology.
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- Nielsen's Psychology of Religion Resources including online texts, course syllabi, bibliography, theoretical perspectives, and links to journals and professional organizations.
- Psychological Influence in Spiritual Movements A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements.
- COG-SCI-REL-L Archived cognitive science of religion email discussion list, focusing particularly on anthropological and cognitive developmental psychology research investigating the formation and transmission of religious ideas.
- Psychology and Religion Collection of annotated links from Nikitas Kafkios. Categories include resources dealing with integration, anti-psychology sites, journals, and bibliographies.
- Are We Hardwired for God? The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".