Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 33

Ralph W. Hood Jr. is professor of Psychology Professorship at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor.Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor is Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University.Morteza Daneshyar is Assistant professor in the Department of History and Civilization of Muslim Nations at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.Vali Abdi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Religions and Mysticism at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Iran.Abbas Aghdassi serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Civilization of Muslim Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.Alison Halford is an early career academic and Sociologist of Religion. She is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling, Coventry University.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsSpecial Section 1: Open SectionSecularization and Religiosity: A Computational Psychological PerspectiveFrancesco RigoliProsocial Behavior, Spirituality, Religiousness, and Purpose in Life: A Study among a National Sample of ArgentiniansDaniel Travis, Hernán Furman and Hugo SimkinA Qualitative Research on the Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Background of Joining and Leaving Radical Religious Groupsİbrahim Yıldırım and Sevde DüzgünerThe Psychological Type Profile of Humanists UK: Not Just the Mirror Image of BelieversGareth Longden and Mandy RobbinsThe Francis Burnout Inventory: Testing the Balanced Affect Model Among Methodist Circuit Ministers In Great BritainLeslie J. Francis, Andrew Village and John M. HaleyPsychological Type Profile of Methodist Ministers in Britain: Contributing to the Atlas of Clergy Type TablesLeslie J. Francis, John M. Haley and Ursula McKennaPsychological Type and Images of GodLeslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna, Gillian L. Hall and Douglas S. HallThe Other Side of the Coin: Religious Fundamentalism and Positive Mental Health OutcomesRussell E. Phillips III and Michael B. KitchensSpecial Section 2: The Socio-historical Study of Religion in Greater KhurāsānIntroduction: A Beginning to the Socio-Historical Study of Religion in Greater KhurāsānMorteza Daneshyar, Vali Abdi and Abbas AghdassiXwaršēd Nigerišn and Its Zoroastrian Burial Customs in Greater KhurāsānMehdi Mousavinia and Hassan BasafaJewish and Christian Diaspora in Greater Khurāsān during the First Three Centuries AHMohsen Sharfaei and Vali AbdiKarrāmīyya Relations with Other Islamic Sects in the Third to Sixth Centuries AH: A Glance on Its Relationship with SufismHamidreza Sanaei and Robabeh JafarpourSufi’s Book-Washing in Abū Saʿīd Abū al-Khayr’s Ḥālāt va Sukhanān and Asrār al-TawḥīdMahmood Zeraatpisheh and Atefeh RanjbardarestaniConnecting “Liminal” Spaces – Jewish Trade Networks in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century KhurāsānAriane SadjedConsiderations on the Epistemological Approach of Mīrzā Mahdī Iṣfahānī in al-Abwāb al-HudāAtefeh Ranjbardarestani and Mohammad FazlhashemiThe Local Roots of Dr. Shariati’s Opposition to Philosophy: A Historical ApproachAbdolrahim GhanavaBetween Greater Khurāsān and the Khurāsān Province: The Continuity of Greater Khurāsān in the Social Identity of Iranian Sunnīs in Khurāsān ProvinceHessam Habibi DorohReligion or Belief and the ChildIntroduction: Religion or Belief and the ChildSariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Alison Halford25 Years of Approval Seeking in the US: The IRB and Ethnographic Protocols for Religious Studies Work with Child ConsultantsSusan B. RidgelyDiscovery, Construction, Disclosure: Some Factors in the Developing Religious Identity of Children and Young People from Diverse Faith BackgroundsEleanor Nesbitt and Elisabeth ArweckChildren, Religion and Social Capital: Bonding and Bridging in Multi-faith Urban NeighbourhoodsGreg SmithIndex