Four decades ago, A. Reza Arasteh combined Westernized psychology with Sufism to emerge as an important voice in the integration of psychology and religion. Arasteh’s writings have remained largely unnoticed by the psychological community; however, we believe that it is time to reconsider his ideas. This article presents Arasteh’s main ideas about the relationship between human development and ...

The following reviews recent developments in the cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion, and argues for an adaptationist stance.

While economic deterrence models are fully based on maximizing economic utility; social psychology models explain human behavior by examining the underlying attitudes, norms and beliefs. Tax morale is defined as the intrinsic motivation to pay taxes. However, determinants of tax morale need to be investigated for a more comprehensive understanding of tax morale. In this paper we analyze the mos...

objectives: the aim of this study was to survey relationship between religious orientation and happiness in elderly man and woman in tehran. methods and materials: the present study was descriptive and causal- comparative. in order to survey the relationship between religious orientation and happiness among the elderly men and women in tehran 389 aged people above 60 years including 247 men and...

The paper is an overview of the connections between scientific psychology and religion. thesis that psychology, which deals with empirical research all manifestations spirituality religiousness within different principles contexts culture, cannot refer to doctrine religion, but it should take into account in its cultural aspects religion without valuing them at individual human level (personali...

“Psychology of Religion: Theory, Current Studies and New Directions” was edited by Dr. Zeynep Sağır, from the Psychology Religion Department at Fırat University. The book consists eight chapters written PhD holders or students working in field psychology religion. purpose is to gather new studies provide insight on field’s current research agenda. main issues investigated are a meta-analysis Sy...

The psychology of religion has existed as a neglected subdiscipline in general psychology, but a trend toward integration is currently present, partly due to applications of well-corroborated theories from mainstream psychology. The article has two aims. First, the most influential psychodynamic “depth” approaches (those of Erikson, 1958, 1959, 1963; Freud, 1913/1919, 1927/1964a, 1939/1964b; Jo...