Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 17

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15473-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 536 g

Reihe: Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) publishes reports of innovative studies that pertain empirically or theoretically to the scientific study of religion, including spirituality, regardless of their academic discipline or professional orientation. This volume of RSSSR contains articles on conversion narratives of Jehovah’s witnesses, belief in an active Satan, afterlife beliefs, religiosity and parenting and spirituality as coping resource.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piedmont, Ralph L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Analysis of Conversion Narratives of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Relationships to Stages of Religious Judgment.
Ines W. Jindra
Intolerance Toward Others and Belief in an Active Satan.
Keith M. Wilson, Jennifer L. Acord, and Ronan S. Bernas
Transgression and Transformation: Spiritual Resources for Coping with a Personal Offense.
Kelly M. McConnell, Maria R. Gear, and Kenneth I. Pargament
Religion and Ethnicity Among Irish Americans in Savannah, Georgia.
William L. Smith and Barbara Hendry
Prayer, Purpose in Life, Personality and Social Attitudes Among non-Churchgoing 13- to 15-year-olds in England and Wales.
Leslie J. Francis and Mandy Robbins
Biblical Interpretive Horizons and Ordinary Readers: An empirical study.
Andrew Village
A Factor Analysis of the Fetzer/NIA Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (MMRS).
Ralph L. Piedmont, Anna Teresa Mapa, and Joseph E.G. Williams
Variant Uses of Religious Beliefs to Justify Social Attitudes.
Mark M. Leach, Jacob J. Levy, and Lisa Denton
The Role of Religiosity in Parenting Young Children.
Bonnie C. Nicholson and Leah McMorris
Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames: Afterlife Beliefs of Catholic and Protestant Undergraduates.
Julie Juola Exline and Ann Marie Yali
The Relationship between Parental Images and Ministerial Job Satisfaction.
Douglan W. Turton and Leslie J. Francis.

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph L. Piedmont is Psychologist at the Department of Pastoral Counseling, Loyola College in Maryland, Columbia, USA. One of his publications is The Revised NEO Personality Inventory: Clinical and Research Applications (Plenum Press, 1998).