The authors review findings from the psychology of religion showing that believers'
perceived relationships with God meet the definitional criteria for attachment relationships�…

Psychologists have begun to consider the potential role of traumatic experiences on the
victim's spirituality and religiousness as well as the role personal religious and spiritual faith�…

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers�…

The special characteristics of items—low reliability, confounds by minor, unwanted
covariance, and the likelihood of a general factor—and better understanding of factor�…

In this provocative and engaging book, Lee Kirkpatrick establishes a broad, comprehensive
framework for approaching the psychology of religion from an evolutionary perspective�…

In this paper we argue that attachment theory, as developed by John Bowlby and refined
and extended by a host of other psychological researchers, offers a potentially powerful�…

This study conceptualizes personal religion, like romantic love, in terms of attachment theory
and explores empirical relationships between adult attachment style and religious belief and�…

The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that attachment theory, as origi-nally proposed
by John Bowlby and subsequently refined by a host of other researchers, provides a�…

The nature of the human person has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. We
desire to understand ourselves and our place in the world, and at times we also look at�…

This chapter aims to integrate existing theoretical efforts, extend them by incorporating more
of the attribution literature and more of the existing empirical psychology of religion. One task�…