Psychology of Religion Research and Teaching Exchange:

Update | Purpose | Database Participants | Example

Hello, and welcome! Scroll down this page for the current list of scholars participating in the database. If you would like to be listed in the database, please send me the information that appears below. If you have sent me your name, but it does not appear on this list, please be patient as I work on the database. I will add your data to the collection as I am able.

This service will be useful only if you do three things:

1. Send me your name and contact information so that I can include you on this list;
2. Tell other psychologists who study religion about this service, so that we can spread news of its availability (Click the "Recommend-It" button if you'd like to tell someone about this service now) ;
3. Contact the others who are on this list, and do research with them!

Thanks,

Michael E. Nielsen, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8041
USA

Purpose

In an effort to improve communication among scholars in the field and throughout the world, I am developing a list of psychologists who study religion or who teach psychology and religion courses. For this list I have two primary goals:
1. Increase communication among scholars so that they can collaborate on research. For example, researchers in Canada, Brazil and Italy may join efforts on a study, giving us research that addresses religion in different cultural contexts.
   
2. Direct students and other people who are interested in learning more about psychology and religion to scholars in their area.

My hope is that the database facilitates a sense of "community" among those who study psychology and religion.

Information Included in the On-Line Database

1. Name and Title
2. Institutional Affiliation
3. Mailing Address
4. Email Address (Note that I have inserted "_delete_this_" into email addresses in order to reduce the automated harvesting of email addresses for unsolicited commercial email. Delete the _delete_this_ from the email address in order to send email to that person.)
5. One paragraph describing your research interests
6. Citations of up to four representative publications
7. Research Keywords to be used for searching the database -- select any of the following psychological perspectives that best represent your approach to the field
   
   • Psychoanalytic
   • Analytic
   • Object Relations
   • Transpersonal
   • Phenomenological
   • Measurement
   • Biological
   • Developmental
   • Motivation and Emotion
   • Behavioral/Comparative
   • Cognitive
   • Mental Health and Psychopathology
   • Social
   • New Religious Movements
8. Titles of related courses, seminars, or programs taught
9. Degrees or certificates available at your institution
10. Languages spoken

When the database becomes large enough to warrant it, I plan to include a search script so that people can use specific terms (research perspectives, countries, languages spoken, etc.) to locate psychologists with whom they might collaborate, or who might serve as a mentor or teacher.

To be included in the database, send the above information to:



Michael Nielsen, Ph.D.
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8041
USA
mnielsen_DELETE_THIS_@georgiasouthern.edu (Delete the "_DELETE_THIS_" portion from the address before sending the email.)

Current Database Participants

Jeffrey Adams, USA (Vermont)

Tim Allen, UK (Cambridge)

Roxanna Anderson, USA (North Carolina)

Arne Austad, Norway (Oslo)

Anisah B. Bagasra, USA (South Carolina)

Eva Basch-Kahre, Sweden (Stockholm)

Sergey A. Belorusoff, Russian Federation (Moscow)

Mary Ellen Brantley, USA (Georgia)

Jürgen Braungardt, USA (California)

Chris Burris, Canada (Waterloo)

Jim Casebolt, USA (Ohio)

Jose Luiz Cazarotto, Brazil (Sao Paulo)

Adam Cohen, USA (Pennsylvania)

Mariam Cohen, USA (Arizona)

Nicole Cohen, USA (California)

Stephen W. Cook, USA (Texas)

Peter la Cour, Denmark (Copenhagen)

David Dalrymple, USA (West Virginia)

Dereck Daschke, USA (Missouri)

James M. Day, Belgium (Louvain la Neuve)

Bart Duriez, Belgium (Leuven)

Michael J. Donahue, USA (California)

John R. van Eenwyk, USA (Washington)

Colette Fleuridas, USA (California)

Leslie J. Francis, UK (Bangor, Wales)

R. Ruard Ganzevoort, The Netherlands (Kampen)

Dana Gaynor, USA (New York)

Nicholas J. S. Gibson, United Kingdom

Gerrit Glas, The Netherlands (Utrecht)

Rene Gempp, Chile (Temuco)

Joseph Guido, USA (Rhode Island)

Kenneth Hart, England (Leeds)

Michael Herzbrun, USA (New York)

Richard A. Hutch, Australia (Queensland)

Geoffrey Hutchinson, USA (Texas)

Dirk Hutsebaut, Belgium (Leuven)

Angelina Iturrian, USA (Missouri)

Hasan Kaplan, USA (New York)

Ali Kose, Turkey (Istanbul)

Stephen Krauss, Romania/USA

Mark J. Krejci, USA (Minnesota)

Naci Kula, Turkey (Gazi)

Aryeh Lazar, Israel (Ariel)

René Lehmann, Switzerland (Lugano)

Tőnu Lehtsaar, Estonia (Tartu)

Christopher A. Lewis, Northern Ireland (Londonderry)

Kate C. M. Loewenthal, UK (London)

Annette Mahoney, USA (Ohio)

John Maltby, UK (Sheffield)

Donald McCormick, USA (California)

Michael McCullough, USA (Texas)

Susan H. McFadden, USA (Wisconsin)

Maureen Miner, Australia (New South Wales)

Sebastian Murken, Germany (Trier)

William Murray, USA (North Carolina)

Carol Musselman, Canada (Ontario)

Michael Nielsen, USA (Georgia)

Uzeyir OK, Turkey and UK (Birmingham)

Raymond F. Paloutzian, USA (California)

Tommy Parsons, USA (California)

Thomas Plante, USA (California)

Pedro Salinas Quintana, Chile (Santiago)

Alvaro González Riesle, Peru (Lima)

Natti Ronel, Israel (Tel Aviv)

Wade Rowatt, USA (Texas)

Yasser A. Salem, Egypt (Alexandria)

Earl S. Schaefer, USA (North Carolina)

Tatjana Schnell, Austria (Innsbruck)

Kelly Schwartz, Canada (Alberta)

Emma Shackle, UK (Oxford)

Edward P. Shafranske, USA (California)

Gilberto Safra, Brazil (Sao Paulo)

Vassilis Saroglou, Belgium (Louvain-la-Neuve)

Witold Simon, Poland (Warsaw)

Pawel M. Socha, Poland (Krakow)

Doug Soderstrom, USA (Texas)

Hans Stifoss-Hanssen, Norway (Oslo)

Heinz Streib, Germany (Bielefeld)

Napoleon Tapia, Costa Rica (San Jose)

Brad Thomas, USA (Tennessee)

Josue Tinoco, Mexico (Vincentina)

Kailash Tuli, India (New Delhi)

Douglas Vakoch, USA (California)

Nathaniel Wade, USA (Virginia)

Robert Warren, USA (Virginia)

Fraser N. Watts, United Kingdom (Cambridge)

David M. Wulff, USA (Massachusetts)

Murat Yildiz, Turkey (Hatay-Izmir)

Hetty Zock, The Netherlands (Groningen)

Jacob D. van Zyl, South Africa (Nelspruit)

Example of a possible database entry

NAME: Jonah Doe, Assistant Professor

INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: North Nevada State College

MAILING ADDRESS: Department of Social Science, NNSC, Ely, NV 85123, USA

EMAIL ADDRESS: JDoe@NNSC.EDU

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Religious development, particularly faith development.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:
Doe, J. (1995). Faith development among troubled teens. Journal of Developmental Psychology, 5, 43-50.
Smith, J., & Doe, J. (1992). Constructive search for meaning among teenagers. Journal of Religion and Psychology, 21, 50-58.

KEYWORDS: Measurement, Object Relations

COURSE TITLES: None

DEGREES OFFERED: AA, BA, BS

LANGUAGES: English, Spanish

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