Highlights•Belief in God and other supernatural beings and forces comes naturally to
humans.•There are many views of God—benevolent, authoritarian, mystical, uninvolved�…

How do people decide whether a supernatural entity (God, the devil, ghosts/spirits,
fate/destiny, karma, or luck) has intervened in their lives? Their decisions may depend partly�…

Can scientists study religion? Ilkka PyysiSinen says that they can. While the study of religion
cannot be reduced to other disciplines, it must not ignore what other disciplines have�…

Many people believe in supernatural entities, which might be personal (deities, devils,
ghosts) or impersonal (fate/destiny, karma, luck). Some people see such entities as causing�…

In this Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, with scores of authors
working independently, one cannot expect uniformity. The voices are unique and express�…

Supernatural beliefs are ubiquitous around the world, and mounting evidence indicates that
these beliefs partly rely on intuitive, cross‐culturally recurrent cognitive processes�…

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the
highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless�…

290 IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION the importance of
consciousness is emphasized over the obvious material world. In all these situations�…

The Interactive Religious Experience Model (IREM), proposed by Van Leeuwen and van
Elk, uses agency detection to explain how general religious ideas, like “God answers�…

In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a
succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious�…