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This volume includes a wide range of papers that explore individual and institutional aspects of religion from a social-science perspective. The special section has articles related to the practice of prayer, and includes studies from the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. The general papers include studies on coping strategies, God representations, spirituality versus religion, self-control in a Muslim context, and faith-based organizations in Cambodia. Together these papers form a valuable collection indicating the depth and vibrancy of research in these fields.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Manuscript Invitation -- Authors' Biographies -- Ordering the Mess: Psychological Type Profiles of Adults in Messy Church Congregations -- The Psychological Temperament of Catholic Priests and Religious Sisters in Italy: An Empirical Enquiry -- The Psychological Type of Individuals Attracted to Celtic Christianity Compared with the Psychological Type of Anglican Congregations -- Lighting Candles and Writing Prayers: Observing Opportunities for Spiritual Practices in Churches in Rural Cornwall -- Investigating the Many Facets of Spirituality that Mediate the Relationship between Exposure to Nature and Psychological Well-Being -- A Nonviolent Identity: A Psychobiographical Study of an Islamic Scholar -- The Pragmatic Believer-Faith Development and Personal Experiences of a 'Higher Power' in Seasoned Members of Narcotics Anonymous -- The Circle of Place Spirituality (CoPS): Towards an Attachment and Exploration Motivational Systems Approach in the Psychology of Religion -- The Place of Place within the Attachment-Religion Framework: A Commentary on the Circle of Place Spirituality -- Special Section 1 The National Church Life Survey in Australia -- Twenty-Five Years of Data on Australian Churches: Strengths and Limitations -- Vitality in Protestant Congregations: A Large Scale Empirical Analysis of Underlying Factors across Four Countries -- Newcomers and Collective Confidence in Protestant Churches: A Longitudinal Study from 2001 to 2011 -- Why Do They Belong? Factors Influencing Sense of Belonging in Australian Catholic Parishes -- Local Churches and Innovativeness: An Empirical Study of 2800 Australian Churches -- Special Section 2 Applications of the Ideological Surround Model.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Manuscript Invitation -- Authors' Biographies -- Ordering the Mess: Psychological Type Profiles of Adults in Messy Church Congregations -- The Psychological Temperament of Catholic Priests and Religious Sisters in Italy: An Empirical Enquiry -- The Psychological Type of Individuals Attracted to Celtic Christianity Compared with the Psychological Type of Anglican Congregations -- Lighting Candles and Writing Prayers: Observing Opportunities for Spiritual Practices in Churches in Rural Cornwall -- Investigating the Many Facets of Spirituality that Mediate the Relationship between Exposure to Nature and Psychological Well-Being -- A Nonviolent Identity: A Psychobiographical Study of an Islamic Scholar -- The Pragmatic Believer-Faith Development and Personal Experiences of a 'Higher Power' in Seasoned Members of Narcotics Anonymous -- The Circle of Place Spirituality (CoPS): Towards an Attachment and Exploration Motivational Systems Approach in the Psychology of Religion -- The Place of Place within the Attachment-Religion Framework: A Commentary on the Circle of Place Spirituality -- Special Section 1 The National Church Life Survey in Australia -- Twenty-Five Years of Data on Australian Churches: Strengths and Limitations -- Vitality in Protestant Congregations: A Large Scale Empirical Analysis of Underlying Factors across Four Countries -- Newcomers and Collective Confidence in Protestant Churches: A Longitudinal Study from 2001 to 2011 -- Why Do They Belong? Factors Influencing Sense of Belonging in Australian Catholic Parishes -- Local Churches and Innovativeness: An Empirical Study of 2800 Australian Churches -- Special Section 2 Applications of the Ideological Surround Model

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Manuscript Invitation -- Authors' Biographies -- Ordering the Mess: Psychological Type Profiles of Adults in Messy Church Congregations /Amanda Dawn Aspland -- The Psychological Temperament of Catholic Priests and Religious Sisters in Italy: An Empirical Enquiry /Leslie J. Francis and Giuseppe Crea -- The Psychological Type of Individuals Attracted to Celtic Christianity Compared with the Psychological Type of Anglican Congregations /Gill Hall and Douglas Hall -- Lighting Candles and Writing Prayers: Observing Opportunities for Spiritual Practices in Churches in Rural Cornwall /Tania ap Siôn -- Investigating the Many Facets of Spirituality that Mediate the Relationship between Exposure to Nature and Psychological Well-Being /Brooke M. Ruf , David C. Wang and John K. Williams -- A Nonviolent Identity: A Psychobiographical Study of an Islamic Scholar /Tomas Lindgren -- The Pragmatic Believer—Faith Development and Personal Experiences of a 'Higher Power' in Seasoned Members of Narcotics Anonymous /John-Kåre Vederhus and Magnhild Høie -- The Circle of Place Spirituality (CoPS): Towards an Attachment and Exploration Motivational Systems Approach in the Psychology of Religion /Victor Counted -- The Place of Place within the Attachment-Religion Framework: A Commentary on the Circle of Place Spirituality /Joel Gruneau Brulin and Pehr Granqvist -- The National Church Life Survey in Australia -- Twenty-Five Years of Data on Australian Churches: Strengths and Limitations /Miriam Pepper , Ruth Powell , Sam Sterland and Nicole Hancock -- Vitality in Protestant Congregations: A Large Scale Empirical Analysis of Underlying Factors across Four Countries /Sam Sterland , Ruth Powell , Miriam Pepper and Nicole Hancock -- Newcomers and Collective Confidence in Protestant Churches: A Longitudinal Study from 2001 to 2011 /Sam Sterland , Ruth Powell , Nicole Hancock , Miriam Pepper and Martin Dowson -- Why Do They Belong? Factors Influencing Sense of Belonging in Australian Catholic Parishes /Robert Dixon and Dharmalingam Arunachalam -- Local Churches and Innovativeness: An Empirical Study of 2800 Australian Churches /Ruth Powell and Miriam Pepper -- Applications of the Ideological Surround Model -- Mindfulness within a Muslim Ideological Surround: Empirical Translation Schemes and Religious and Psychological Functioning of Islamic Seminarians in Iran /Nima Ghorbani , P. J. Watson , Fazlollaha Tavakoli and Zhuo Job Chen -- Fundamentalism within an Indian Ideological Surround: Commitment to Religious Tradition Predicts Hindu Openness /Shanmukh V. Kamble , P. J. Watson , Deepti B. Duggi and Zhuo Job Chen -- Sanctification of Learning and Religious Openness: Contrasts across Religious Fundamentalist and Biblical Foundationalist Ideological Surrounds /P. J. Watson , Zhuo Job Chen and Ronald J. Morris -- Religion within a Dark Triad Ideological Surround: Pluralistic Self as Dialogue across Private, Communal, and Public Space /P. J. Watson , Zhuo Job Chen , Ronald J. Morris and Nima Ghorbani -- Back Matter -- Index.

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Manuscript Invitation -- Author Biographies -- Manuscript Reviewers -- List of Figures and Tables -- Sanctification of Health Care Interventions as a Coping Method -- God Representations: An Exploratory Study on a Croatian Adolescent Sample -- Distinguishing between Spirituality and Religion: Accessing the Worldview Correlates of 13- to 15-year-old Students in England and Wales

Preliminary Material /Andrew Village and Ralph W. Hood -- Sanctification of Health Care Interventions as a Coping Method /Mikael Lundmark -- God Representations: An Exploratory Study on a Croatian Adolescent Sample /Filip Užarević , Damir Ljubotina and Zvonimir Knezović -- Distinguishing between Spirituality and Religion: Accessing the Worldview Correlates of 13- to 15-year-old Students in England and Wales /Leslie J. Francis , Patrick J. Laycock and Gemma Penny -- Self-Control within a Muslim Ideological Surround: Empirical Translation Schemes and the Adjustment of Muslim Seminarians in Iran /Nima Ghorbani , P.J. Watson , Fazlollah Tavakoli and Zhuo Job Chen -- "The Fire That Makes Us Boil": The Role of Religion in Supporting Faith-Based Organizations in Cambodia /John Frame -- The Study of Prayer: Introduction to the Special Section /Kevin L. Ladd -- A Tangible Connection to the Divine: An Exploration of the Power and Utility of Prayer Objects /Jennifer Valenti , Shira Gabriel and Anderson Blanton -- Who Cares If I Stand on My Head When I Pray? Ritual Inflexibility and Mental-State Understanding in Preschoolers /Nicholas J. Shaman , Anondah R. Saide , Kirsten A. Lesage and Rebekah A. Richert -- Folding Your Hands Helps God Hear You: Prayer and Anthropomorphism in Parents and Children /Rebekah A. Richert , Nicholas J. Shaman , Anondah R. Saide and Kirsten A. Lesage -- How Young Adult Middle Eastern Muslims Interpret Various Prayer Positions in Salat /Mark Aveyard -- Socio-Cultural Differences in Judgments about the Power of Thought /Jonathan D. Lane and Francine Dolins -- Prayer, Personality and Purpose in Life: An Empirical Enquiry among Adolescents in the uk /Leslie J. Francis and Gemma Penny -- Petitionary Prayer: Immature but Common in Christians? A Descriptive and Exploratory Study /Patrick Pössel , Blanca Aranda , Rachel Geist , Kevin L. Ladd and Aaron W. Banister -- Names Index /Andrew Village and Ralph W. Hood -- Subject Index /Andrew Village and Ralph W. Hood.

This volume includes a wide range of papers from Europe, North America and Australia that explore individual and institutional aspects of religion from a social-science perspective. The special section is on clergy work-related psychological health, stress, burnout and coping strategies

The 25th volume of 'Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion' continues to provide readers with an interdisciplinary assortment of high quality research studies aimed at capturing salient, contemporary trends in the field. The current volume presents a special section examining the role of spiritual and religious themes in sexuality research. Engaging analyses evaluate homonegativity and how religious advocacy influences perceptions of gay and lesbian individuals across different cultures. Also included are papers on the development of sexual identities among religious committed individuals. These papers help to connect concepts too frequently considered unrelated. The regular articles provide similarly stimulating evaluations of timely topics such as religious coping, gratitude, and the role of personality in describing religious experiences.

Preliminary Material -- The Revised Faith Development Scale: An Option for a More Reliable Self-Report Measurement of Postconventional Religious Reasoning /J. Irene Harris and Gary K. Leak -- Spirituality's Unique Role in Positive Affect, Satisfaction with Life, and Forgiveness over and above Personality and Individualism-Collectivism /Inna Reddy Edara -- Restoring the Temple: Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health /Gina Magyar-Russell -- Forgiveness, Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health in People with Physical Challenges: A Review and a Model /Caroline R. Lavelock , Brandon J. Griffin and Everett L. Worthington -- Religious and Spiritual Appraisals and Coping Strategies among Patients in Medical Rehabilitation /Gina Magyar-Russell , Kenneth I. Pargament , Kelly M. Trevino and Jack E. Sherman -- The Relationship of Spirituality, Benefit Finding, and Other Psychosocial Variables to the Hormone Oxytocin in HIV/AIDS /Courtney B. Kelsch , Gail Ironson , Angela Szeto , Heidemarie Kremer , Neil Schneiderman and Armando J. Mendez -- Coping Without Religion? Religious Coping, Quality of Life, and Existential Well-Being among Lung Disease Patients and Matched Controls in a Secular Society /Heidi Frølund Pedersen , Christina G. Pedersen , Kenneth I. Pargament and Robert Zachariae -- Magic and Jinn among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom Suffering from Physical and Mental Health Problems: Controlling the Uncontrollable /Simon Dein -- Spirituality, Faith, and Mild Alzheimer's Disease /Jocelyn Shealy McGee , Dennis R. Myers , Holly Carlson , Angela Pool Funai and Paul A. Barclay -- Spiritual Struggles, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Mental Health Outcomes in Urban Adolescents with Asthma /Sian Cotton , Kenneth I. Pargament , Jerren C. Weekes , Meghan E. McGrady , Daniel Grossoehme , Christina M. Luberto , Anthony C. Leonard and George Fitchett -- Testing the Validity of a Protocol to Screen for Spiritual Struggle among Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis /Daniel H. Grossoehme and George Fitchett -- Winding Road: Preliminary Support for a Spiritually Integrated Intervention Addressing College Students' Spiritual Struggles /Carmen K. Oemig Dworsky , Kenneth I. Pargament , Meryl Reist Gibbel , Krumrei Elizabeth J. , Carol Ann Faigin , Maria R. Gear Haugen , Kavita M. Desai , Shauna K. Lauricella , Quinten Lynn and Heidi L. Warner -- Authors' Biographies -- Manuscript Reviewers -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

The twenty-fourth volume of RSSSR includes a landmark collection of papers on religion, spirituality, and health, as well as papers on other key areas in the study of religion such as spirituality and faith development.