Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity

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Abstract

1. Defining Psychology, Defining Religion 2. Exceptional or Natural? Psychological Origins of Religion 3. Social Learning and Identity 4. Explaining Variations in Religiosity 5. Women and Religion 6. Consequences and Correlates of Religiosity 7. Conversion and Convert-Dependent Groups 8. Psychoanalysis and the Psychological Study of Religion 9. Secularization and the Persistence of Religion 10. Concluding Remarks: The New Psychology of Religion