Religion Books

New and Published Books

1. William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience

   A Centenary Celebration

   Edited by Jeremy Carrette

   William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience was an intellectual landmark, paving the way for current study of psychology, philosophy and religious studies. In this new companion to the Varieties, key international experts provide contemporary responses to James's book, exploring its...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Social Psychology of Religion (Psychology Revivals)

   By Michael Argyle, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   Originally published in 1975, this book is a completely rewritten, revised version of Michael Argyle’s standard work, Religious Behaviour, first published in 1958. A great deal of new research had appeared since that date, which threw new light on the nature and origins of religious behaviour,...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality for Clinicians

   Using Research in Your Practice

   Edited by Jamie Aten, Kari O'Grady, Everett Worthington, Jr.

   Many therapists and counselors find themselves struggling to connect the research on the psychology of religion and spirituality to their clinical practice. This book will address this issue, providing a valuable resource for clinicians that will help translate basic research findings into useful...

   Published November 30th 2011 by Routledge
4. Sacred Matters

   Religion and Spirituality in Families

   By Wesley R. Burr, Loren D. Marks, Randal D. Day

   Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory about ways various aspects of the sacred are helpful and harmful. The authors hope that their new conceptual framework will stimulate new research and...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
5. Psychology of Religion

   Edited by Justin L. Barrett

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Psychology of religion is essentially as old as psychology itself, with over a hundred years of history and claiming some of psychology’s most notable characters as contributors, including William James, Sigmund Freud, Gordon Allport, and Jean Piaget. In recent years, this subfield of psychology...

   Published April 29th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga, 2nd Edition

   Paths to A Mature Happiness

   By Marvin Levine

   This book describes Buddhist-Yogic ideas in relation to those of contemporary Western psychology. The book begins with the Buddhist view of the human psyche and of the human condition. This leads to the question of what psychological changes need to be made to improve that condition. Similarities...

   Published July 13th 2009 by Routledge
7. Religious Fundamentalism

   Global, Local and Personal

   By Peter Herriot

   How does a religious fundamentalist come to embrace a counter-cultural world view? Fundamentalism can be analysed from a variety of perspectives. It is a type of belief system which enables individuals to make sense of their lives and provides them with an identity. It is a social...

   Published September 15th 2008 by Routledge
8. Religious Fundamentalism and Social Identity

   By Peter Herriot

   The attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in the United States of September 11th, 2001 brought the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism to the world's attention.Sociological research has clearly demonstrated that fundamentalists are primarily reacting against modernity, and believe...

   Published January 24th 2007 by Routledge
9. The Resonance of Emptiness

   A Buddhist Inspiration for Contemporary Psychotherapy

   By Gay Watson

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   This work presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psychotherapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context, and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal...

   Published July 17th 2002 by Routledge