AUTHORS' RESPONSES: Is Religion Nothing But. ..? Explaining Religion Versus Explaining Religion Away

By K. Pargament. 2002

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Subfields: Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Specific Religious Beliefs in a Cognitive Appraisal Model of Stress and Coping (2010, background): “It explains unique variance in coping and predicts outcomes beyond secular coping (Pargament, 2002).”
Religiosity as Identity: Toward an Understanding of Religion From a Social Identity Perspective (2010, background): “Thus, even in the case that a comprehensive explanation for religiosity is untenable (Pargament, 2002), a social identity framework appears to be unequivocally useful toward our understanding of this complex phenomenon.”
Spirituality as an Irreducible Human Motivation and Process (2013, background): “But there is an important difference between explaining religion and explaining religion away (Pargament, 2002); that is, presuming that biopsychosocial analyses motivation most phenomenologically real to religious adherents themselves is necessarily limited.”
Meaning in Life: One Link in the Chain From Religiousness to Well-Being (2005, methodology): “Extrinsic religiousness is generally associated with poorer mental health (Pargament, 2002a; Smith, McCullough, & Poll, 2003).”
Measuring Religiosity/Spirituality: Theoretical Differentiations and Categorization of Instruments (2011, background): “Pargament [27] has called this: “explaining religion away”.”
A DECADE OF RESEARCH ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION AND COPING: Things we assumed and lessons we learned (2007, background): “…coping is positively and persistently associated with desirable mental health indicators (Smith, Pargament, Brant & Oliver, 2000; Tarakeshwar & Pargament, 2001; 2002; Narin & Merluzzi, 2003; Smith, McCullough & Poll 2003; Ai, Peterson & Huang, 2003; Meisenhelder & Marcum, 2004; Pieper, 2004;…”
Exploring Adolescent Spiritual and Religious Development: Current and Future Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (2004, background): “It would behoove scholars to avoid the temptation to be reductionistic and assume that spiritual or religious phenomena can be accounted for by current sets of psychological or sociological constructs and processes (see Pargament, 2002, on this matter).”