Nielsen's Psychology of Religion
- Resources including online texts, course syllabi, bibliography, theoretical perspectives, and links to journals and professional organizations.
- http://www.psychwww.com/psyrelig/index.htm
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
Children's Spirituality Research - Don Ratcliff's collection of summaries of books reporting social science, historical, and biblical and theological research conducted on the topic of children's religion and spirituality. - http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/dratcliff/childspirituality/
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/
S.P.i.R.i.T. Research Group - Spirituality and psychology research team at Bowling Green State University, headed by Kenneth Pargament and Annette Mahoney. Brief description of research areas, contact details, and profiles of directors. - http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/psych/Facultyprograms.html/SPIRIT.htm
Centre for Ministry Studies - Research center within the University of Wales at Bangor. Includes abstracts for much of Leslie Francis' published research. - http://www.bangor.ac.uk/rs/pt/index.php
Campaign for Forgiveness Research - Supports 46 innovative scientific projects on forgiveness and reconciliation on the individual, family, and national levels. Includes details of individual projects, a speakers bureau, and information and personal stories about how to forgive. - http://www.forgiving.org/
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://www.psy.kuleuven.ac.be/religion/religion.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
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". - 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. - http://www.maps.org/media/vedantam.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
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/
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