The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 devoted to research on the psychology of religion

Psychology of religion

Psychology of religion consists of the application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to religious traditions, as well as to both religious and irreligious individuals. The science attempts to accurately describe the details, origins, and uses of religious beliefs and behaviours...

. Its scope includes the social psychology of religion, religious development, conversion, religious experience, religion and social attitudes and behavior, religion and mental health, and psychoanalytic and other theoretical interpretations of religion. The current editor-in-chief is Raymond F. Paloutzian (Westmont College

Westmont College

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in PsycINFO

PsycINFO

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, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

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, Current Contents

Current Contents

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/Arts & Humanities, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, EBSCO databases

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, Family Index Database, Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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/Social Sciences Religion Index One, Religious and Theological Abstracts

Religious and Theological Abstracts

Religious and Theological Abstracts is a database that indexes many religious and theological journals and other literature. One Guide to Research recently described it as a "popular reference" covering more than 600 periodicals in most major European languages beginning in 1958...

, Scopus

Scopus

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, and Social Sciences Citation Index

Social Sciences Citation Index

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. Beginning with volume 18 (2008), the journal is included in the databases of the Institute for Scientific Information

Institute for Scientific Information

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Notable authors

The journal has published articles by psychologists with major interests outside of the psychology of religion, such as Michael Argyle

Michael Argyle (psychologist)

Michael Argyle was one of the best known English social psychologists of the twentieth century. He spent most of his career at the University of Oxford, and worked on numerous topics...

, Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura is a psychologist and the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University...

, Roy Baumeister

Roy Baumeister

Roy F. Baumeister is Francis Eppes Professor of Psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a social psychologist who is known for his work on the self, social rejection, belongingness, sexuality, self-control, self-esteem, self-defeating behaviors, motivation, and...

, Albert Ellis, Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who is a professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero and author of over twenty books translated into thirty languages. Since 1995, he has...

, Kenneth J. Gergen

Kenneth J. Gergen

Kenneth J. Gergen is an American psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College. He obtained his B.A. at Yale University in 1957 and his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1962.-Biography:...

, Christopher Peterson, and Carl E. Thoresen

Carl E. Thoresen

Carl E. Thoresen is a psychologist on the faculty of Stanford University. Since 2005, he has also been a Senior Fellow at Santa Clara University.- Education and academic career :...

. It has also published articles by psychologists of religion such as Kenneth Pargament

Kenneth Pargament

Kenneth I. Pargament is a professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University .-Biography:Born in 1950 in Washington, D.C., Pargament received his Ph. D from the University of Maryland in 1977. He currently studies various relationships between religion, psychological well-being and stress,...

 and Ralph W. Hood

Ralph W. Hood

Ralph Wilbur Hood is a professor of psychology at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He received his BS at University of California, Los Angeles, an MS at California State College at Los Angeles , and a PhD at University of Nevada, Reno ....

, as well as some psychologically-focused articles by scientists and scholars from other fields, such as James W. Fowler

James W. Fowler

Dr. James W. Fowler III ) Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University, was director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development and the Center for Ethics until he retired in 2005...

 (theology) and Harold G. Koenig

Harold G. Koenig

Harold G. Koenig is a psychiatrist on the faculty of Duke University. His ideas have been covered in Newsweek and other news media with regard to religion, spirituality and health, a focus of some of his research and clinical practice....

(psychiatry and medicine).