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Book SynopsisRSSR 33 brings together an open section and two special sections that illuminate new vistas in the study of religious and non-religious belief. Special section 1 examines the historical roots of religious practice emerging from Greater Khurāsān – a historical ‘cross-road’ for many world religions. Special section 2 initiates a paradigm shift in study of religious and non-religious belief in relation to children, insisting upon foregrounding children’s narratives. Both special sections explore under-researched areas, underlining the significance of historical and contextual approaches. At an intrinsic level RSSR 33 interrogates the power dynamics that determine why particular voices and approaches are prioritised in the study of religious and non-religious belief, and why others remain under- or mis-heard.
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Special Section 1: Open Section Secularization and Religiosity: A Computational Psychological Perspective Francesco Rigoli Prosocial Behavior, Spirituality, Religiousness, and Purpose in Life: A Study among a National Sample of Argentinians Daniel Travis, Hernán Furman and Hugo Simkin A Qualitative Research on the Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Background of Joining and Leaving Radical Religious Groups İbrahim Yıldırım and Sevde Düzgüner The Psychological Type Profile of Humanists UK: Not Just the Mirror Image of Believers Gareth Longden and Mandy Robbins The Francis Burnout Inventory: Testing the Balanced Affect Model Among Methodist Circuit Ministers In Great Britain Leslie J. Francis, Andrew Village and John M. Haley Psychological Type Profile of Methodist Ministers in Britain: Contributing to the Atlas of Clergy Type Tables Leslie J. Francis, John M. Haley and Ursula McKenna Psychological Type and Images of God Leslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna, Gillian L. Hall and Douglas S. Hall The Other Side of the Coin: Religious Fundamentalism and Positive Mental Health Outcomes Russell E. Phillips III and Michael B. Kitchens Special Section 2: The Socio-historical Study of Religion in Greater Khurāsān Introduction: A Beginning to the Socio-Historical Study of Religion in Greater Khurāsān Morteza Daneshyar, Vali Abdi and Abbas Aghdassi Xwaršēd Nigerišn and Its Zoroastrian Burial Customs in Greater Khurāsān Mehdi Mousavinia and Hassan Basafa Jewish and Christian Diaspora in Greater Khurāsān during the First Three Centuries AH Mohsen Sharfaei and Vali Abdi Karrāmīyya Relations with Other Islamic Sects in the Third to Sixth Centuries AH: A Glance on Its Relationship with Sufism Hamidreza Sanaei and Robabeh Jafarpour Sufi’s Book-Washing in Abū Saʿīd Abū al-Khayr’s Ḥālāt va Sukhanān and Asrār al-Tawḥīd Mahmood Zeraatpisheh and Atefeh Ranjbardarestani Connecting “Liminal” Spaces – Jewish Trade Networks in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Khurāsān Ariane Sadjed Considerations on the Epistemological Approach of Mīrzā Mahdī Iṣfahānī in al-Abwāb al-Hudā Atefeh Ranjbardarestani and Mohammad Fazlhashemi The Local Roots of Dr. Shariati’s Opposition to Philosophy: A Historical Approach Abdolrahim Ghanava Between Greater Khurāsān and the Khurāsān Province: The Continuity of Greater Khurāsān in the Social Identity of Iranian Sunnīs in Khurāsān Province Hessam Habibi Doroh Religion or Belief and the Child Introduction: Religion or Belief and the Child Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Alison Halford 25 Years of Approval Seeking in the US: The IRB and Ethnographic Protocols for Religious Studies Work with Child Consultants Susan B. Ridgely Discovery, Construction, Disclosure: Some Factors in the Developing Religious Identity of Children and Young People from Diverse Faith Backgrounds Eleanor Nesbitt and Elisabeth Arweck Children, Religion and Social Capital: Bonding and Bridging in Multi-faith Urban Neighbourhoods Greg Smith Index
