Religion and Meaning.

By Crystal L. Park. 2005

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Are meaning and purpose distinct? An examination of correlates and predictors (2013, background): “Religion and spirituality offer comprehensive frameworks to understand and comprehend one’s existence and thus provide meaning (Park, 2005; Silberman, 2005).”
Religion and Spirituality in Adolescent Development (2009, background): “…(e.g., Roeser, Rao, Shah, Hastak, Gonsalves & Berry, 2006 ); contribution to others (e.g., Roeser et al., 2008 b), prejudice (e.g., Hunsberger & Jackson, 2005 ), terrorism (Silberman, Higgins, & Dweck, 2005 ), coping (Park, 2005 ), parenting and discipline practices (Mahoney, 2005 ), and so on.”
Awe Activates Religious and Spiritual Feelings and Behavioral Intentions (2012, background): “Religion too, and especially spirituality, implies an alternative perception of reality (Berger, 1997), the belief that life is meaningful (Park, 2005), and empathetic emotions and the feeling that we all belong to large human communities (Fehr et al.”
Psychology, Meaning Making, and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion (2018, background): “Park (2005) explicitly discusses “religious worldviews” as a global meaning system, but we know little about the degree to which frameworks with and without theistic ontologies vary in their level of coherence, elaboration, and salience and what role those differences make in the way people…”
The Religious Schema Scale: Construction and Initial Validation of a Quantitative Measure for Religious Styles (2010, background): “…as a human universal, it can be distinct from particular religious traditions and belief systems (cf. Hood, 2003) and is characterized by meaning-making (cf. Park, 2005) and by interpretation of experiences and loyalty to values in relation to people’s constructions of an ultimate environment.”
The Multidimensional Existential Meaning Scale: A tripartite approach to measuring meaning in life (2017, background): “Mattering is similarly implicated in the literature on religion/spirituality, which highlights that a central function of religion/spirituality is to provide a sense of significance by allowing people to transcend the material and ephemeral aspects of existence (Park, 2013).”
Images of a Loving God and Sense of Meaning in Life (2013, background): “Considering the mediating role of a sense of meaning, researchers observe that there is a need to better understand how it is influenced by religion (Krause 2009a, p. 526; Park 2005b).”
The Meaning Making Model: A framework for understanding meaning, spirituality, and stress-related growth in health psychology (2013, background): “Schwarzer, R., Luszczynska, A., Boehmer, S., Taubert, S., & Knoll, N. (2006). Changes in finding benefit after”
Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “, & Parker, C. (2006). Why me? Why now?”
Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging (2011, background): “” In addition, belief in some kind of transcendence is connected with people’s meaning-making process (Park, 2005).”
Toward an evolutionary social neuroscience of religion (2011, background): “Then, following Wong and Fry’s (1998) edited volume on the search for meaning, Park (2005) published the first comprehensive chapter on religion and meaning, concurrent with the companion publication of the Journal of Social Issues issue on religion as a meaning system (Silberman, 2005).”
Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (2008, background): “Religious and spiritual beliefs, rituals, and narratives involve intuition and creativity (Aarnio & Lindeman, 2007; Berry, 1999), positive meaning, belief in the meaningfulness of life, integration and sense of coherence (Park, 2005), positive reframing of negative experiences (Pargament, 1997), as ”