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• - Online research into images, concepts, and metaphors of God by Earl Schaefer.
  
• - Excerpt from psychology professor David G. Myers' book "The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty".
  
• - The Guardian newspaper's review of Pascal Boyer's book "Religion Explained".
  
• - Publishes empirical research on spirituality. It offers a conceptual and a graphic model of spirituality, and a questionnaire designed to measure the strengths of spiritual beliefs.
  
• - Collection of annotated links from Nikitas Kafkios. Categories include resources dealing with integration, anti-psychology sites, journals, and bibliographies.
  
• - Funding program for investigation into the sociocultural, psychological and neurological factors that underlie the processes of spiritual transformations of individuals and groups. Includes literature review, timeline, and details of winning grants.
  
• - Washington Post article by Shankar Vedantam on researchers examining the relationship between brain and religion.
  
• - Research center within the University of Wales at Bangor. Includes abstracts for much of Leslie Francis' published research.
  
• - A discussion of the features of psychological influence most common to spiritual movements.
  
• - Directory of resources covering religious experience, therapies, and psychological theory.
  
• - Archived cognitive science of religion email discussion list, focusing particularly on anthropological and cognitive developmental psychology research investigating the formation and transmission of religious ideas.
  
• - Publication abstracts and contact details of research program at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), headed up by Jean-Marie Jaspard. Bilingual: French and English.
  
• - Douglas Degelman's directory of resources related to the integration of psychology with religion, sexuality, science, and prayer.
  
• - Dirk Hutsebaut's research program within the Psychology Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Includes full-text articles for download.
  
• - Spirituality and psychology research team at Bowling Green State University, headed by Kenneth Pargament and Annette Mahoney. Brief description of research areas, contact details, and profiles of directors.
  
• - Essay by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer recounting theory and experimental evidence for the ontological and strategic selection of supernatural concepts.
  
• - Supports 46 innovative scientific projects on forgiveness and reconciliation on the individual, family, and national levels. Includes details of individual projects, a speakers bureau, and information and personal stories about how to forgive.
  
• - Research program at University of Cambridge seeking to apply psychology to the work of the Church.