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- Lack of experimentation may be one reason there has been so little progress in developing and testing scientific theories in psychology of religion. But ethical and practical restrictions make it unlikely that experimentation will ever be widely used in research on religion.
psycnet.apa.org/record/1979-05787-001Experimentation in psychology of religion: An impossible dream.
Experimental methods are everywhere now in the study of religion and politics and provide clear benefits for understanding how religion and politics interact. Perhaps most importantly, the method imposes intellectual rigor, helping scholars pin down theoretically and empirically the precise mechanisms involved in the mutual impact between ...
Non-experimental and experimental methods in the psychology of religion: A few thoughts on their implication and limits. In L. B. Brown (Ed.), Advances in the psychology of religion (pp. 76–112). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
- Ralph W. Hood
- Ralph-Hood@utc.edu
- 2009
Mar 20, 2014 · In this article, we discuss how the experimental study of religious phenomena changes the theoretical subject matter and how it involves a new relation between theoretical modeling,...
Experimentation, a research method that has proven extremely useful in other areas. psychology, has been used only rarely in psychology of religion. The value of experimentation in its effectiveness in testing scientific theories. Lack of experimentation may be one reason.
In this article, we discuss how the experimental study of religious phenomena changes the theoretical subject matter and how it involves a new relation between theoretical modeling, methodological reduction and generalization.
- Jesper Sørensen
Lack of experimentation may be one reason there has been so little progress in developing and testing scientific theories in psychology of religion. But ethical and practical restrictions make it unlikely that experimentation will ever be widely used in research on religion.
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This question is posed in The Scientific Study of Religion, by the American sociologist J. Milton Yinger. A similar tendency is noted in the synthesis between the history and the sociology of religion in a new-style evolutionism propounded by another American scholar, Robert Bellah.
