Volume 33 of Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion brings together an open section and two special sections that illuminate new vistas in the study of religious and non-religious belief. Special section 1 examines the historical roots of religious practice emerging from Greater KhurÄsÄn â a historical âcross-roadâ for many world religions. Special section 2 initiates a paradigm shift in study of religious and non-religious belief in relation to children, insisting upon foregrounding childrenâs narratives. Both special sections explore under-researched areas, underlining the significance of historical and contextual approaches. At an intrinsic level the volume interrogates the power dynamics that determine why particular voices and approaches are prioritised in the study of religious and non-religious belief, and why others remain under- or mis-heard.
Ralph W. Hood Jr. is professor of Psychology Professorship at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor.
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University.
Morteza Daneshyar is Assistant professor in the Department of History and Civilization of Muslim Nations at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
Vali Abdi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Religions and Mysticism at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Iran.
Abbas Aghdassi serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Civilization of Muslim Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
Alison Halford is an early career academic and Sociologist of Religion. She is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling, Coventry University.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors
Special Section 1: Open Section
Secularization and Religiosity: A Computational Psychological Perspective
âFrancesco Rigoli
Prosocial Behavior, Spirituality, Religiousness, and Purpose in Life: A Study among a National Sample of Argentinians
âDaniel Travis, Hernán Furman and Hugo Simkin
A Qualitative Research on the Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Background of Joining and Leaving Radical Religious Groups
âİbrahim Yıldırım and Sevde Düzgüner
The Psychological Type Profile of Humanists UK: Not Just the Mirror Image of Believers
âGareth Longden and Mandy Robbins
The Francis Burnout Inventory: Testing the Balanced Affect Model Among Methodist Circuit Ministers In Great Britain
âLeslie J. Francis, Andrew Village and John M. Haley
Psychological Type Profile of Methodist Ministers in Britain: Contributing to the Atlas of Clergy Type Tables
âLeslie J. Francis, John M. Haley and Ursula McKenna
Psychological Type and Images of God
âLeslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna, Gillian L. Hall and Douglas S. Hall
The Other Side of the Coin: Religious Fundamentalism and Positive Mental Health Outcomes
âRussell E. Phillips III and Michael B. Kitchens
Special Section 2: The Socio-historical Study of Religion in Greater KhurÄsÄn
Introduction: A Beginning to the Socio-Historical Study of Religion in Greater KhurÄsÄn
âMorteza Daneshyar, Vali Abdi and Abbas Aghdassi
XwarÅ¡Äd NigeriÅ¡n and Its Zoroastrian Burial Customs in Greater KhurÄsÄn
âMehdi Mousavinia and Hassan Basafa
Jewish and Christian Diaspora in Greater KhurÄsÄn during the First Three Centuries AH
âMohsen Sharfaei and Vali Abdi
KarrÄmÄ«yya Relations with Other Islamic Sects in the Third to Sixth Centuries AH: A Glance on Its Relationship with Sufism
âHamidreza Sanaei and Robabeh Jafarpour
Sufiâs Book-Washing in AbÅ« Saʿīd AbÅ« al-Khayrâs ḤÄlÄt va SukhanÄn and AsrÄr al-Tawḥīd
âMahmood Zeraatpisheh and Atefeh Ranjbardarestani
Connecting âLiminalâ Spaces â Jewish Trade Networks in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century KhurÄsÄn
âAriane Sadjed
Considerations on the Epistemological Approach of MÄ«rzÄ MahdÄ« Iá¹£fahÄnÄ« in al-AbwÄb al-HudÄ
âAtefeh Ranjbardarestani and Mohammad Fazlhashemi
The Local Roots of Dr. Shariatiâs Opposition to Philosophy: A Historical Approach
âAbdolrahim Ghanava
Between Greater KhurÄsÄn and the KhurÄsÄn Province: The Continuity of Greater KhurÄsÄn in the Social Identity of Iranian SunnÄ«s in KhurÄsÄn Province
âHessam Habibi Doroh
Religion or Belief and the Child
Introduction: Religion or Belief and the Child
âSariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Alison Halford
25 Years of Approval Seeking in the US: The IRB and Ethnographic Protocols for Religious Studies Work with Child Consultants
âSusan B. Ridgely
Discovery, Construction, Disclosure: Some Factors in the Developing Religious Identity of Children and Young People from Diverse Faith Backgrounds
âEleanor Nesbitt and Elisabeth Arweck
Children, Religion and Social Capital: Bonding and Bridging in Multi-faith Urban Neighbourhoods
âGreg Smith
Index
Suitable for clinicians, researchers and graduate and post-graduate students of psychology of religion, indigenous psychology, cultural psychology, cross-cultural psychology, critical theory, sociology, anthropology sociology of religion, anthropology of religion, religious studies, Islamic studies, and Iranian studies.