The Sacred and the Search for Significance: Religion as a Unique Process

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Striving for the Sacred: Personal Goals, Life Meaning, and Religion (2005, background): “One of the basic functions of a religious belief system and a religious worldview is that it provides “an ultimate vision of what people should be striving for in their lives” (Pargament & Park, 1995, p. 15) and the strategies to reach those ends.”
INVITED ESSAY: Death-Specific Religious Beliefs and Bereavement: Belief in an Afterlife and Continued Attachment (2004, background): “Pargament, Magyar, and Murray-Swank (2002) recently described the unique nature of religion as a psychosocial construct.”
A DECADE OF RESEARCH ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND COPING: Things we assumed and lessons we learned (2007, positive): “This question is far from an intellectual exercise; the answer to it has important implications for the ways that psychologists study, understand, and approach religion (Pargament et al., 2005).”
Does employees’ spirituality enhance job performance? The mediating roles of intrinsic motivation and job crafting (2020, background): “…in a particular religion (Del Rio and White 2012) and whose expression is often institutional, denominational, ritualistic, and external, such as going to a temple or attending a church service (Hunsberger and Jackson 2005; Pargament et al. 2005; Silberman 2005; Hogg et al. 2010; Ho and Ho 2007).”