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• Science: Science in Society: Science and Religion  (76)
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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.

  Centre for Psychology of Religion (Leuven) Dirk Hutsebaut's research program within the Psychology Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Includes full-text articles for download. http://ppw.kuleuven.be/religion/religion.htm

  Centre for Psychology of Religion (Louvain) Publication abstracts and contact details of research program at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), headed up by Jean-Marie Jaspard. Bilingual: French and English. http://www.psp.ucl.ac.be/psyreli/prel-eng.htm

  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. http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/COG-SCI-REL-L.html

  Functional Origins of Religious Concepts Essay by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer recounting theory and experimental evidence for the ontological and strategic selection of supernatural concepts. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/bec/papers/boyer_religious_concepts.htm

  Psychological Influence in Spiritual Movements A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements. http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/psymove.html

  Psychology and Christianity Project Research program at University of Cambridge seeking to apply psychology to the work of the Church. http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/pcp/

  Psychology and Religion Collection of annotated links from Nikitas Kafkios. Categories include resources dealing with integration, anti-psychology sites, journals, and bibliographies. http://www.psyche.gr/english.htm

  Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program Funding program for investigation into the sociocultural, psychological and neurological factors that underlie the processes of spiritual transformations of individuals and groups. Includes literature review, timeline, and details of winning grants. http://www.metanexus.net/spiritual_transformation/

  Virtual Religion Index: Psychology of Religion Directory of resources covering religious experience, therapies, and psychological theory. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~religion/vri/psych.html

  Are We Hardwired for God? The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained". (February 7, 2002) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4351726,00.html

  Tracing the Synapses of Our Spirituality Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion. (June 17, 2001) http://www.maps.org/media/vedantam.html