Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 22

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion publishes empirical and theoretical studies of religion from a wide range of disciplines and from all parts of the globe. A special section is devoted to the issue of psychological type and religion and especially how psychological type can increase our understanding of Christian ministry. Alongside this section are papers presenting studies on subjects such as civic participation, suffering with God, and spirituality. Together these papers represent important contributions that advance theory and evidence in a number of different fields of contemporary relevance to the study of religion. Contributors to the present volume include: William L. Smith, Pidi Zhang, G, Michael Leffel, Keith M. Wilson, Ronan Bernas, Liza Benovenli, Elizabeth Fuller, Ja Sinnott, Sarah Waterman, Andrew Village, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Keith Wulff, Christopher F.J. Ross, Michael Whinney, Lewis Burton, Bruce G. Fawcett, David Tilley, Susan H. Jones, and Andrew Ryland. Contents ......Page 6 Preface ......Page 10 Acknowledgements ......Page 14 Manuscript Invitation ......Page 16 A Spiritual Getaway: The Motivations, Experiences, and Benefits of a Silent Retreat ......Page 18 Beyond Meaning: Spiritual Transformation in the Paradigm of Moral Intuitionism. A New Direction for the Psychology of Spiritual Transformation. Introduction ......Page 42 Part 1: Beyond Meaning-System Analyses ......Page 46 Part 2: A Moral Intuitionist Approach to Spiritual Transformation ......Page 94 A Good Man Is Hard To Find: Forgiveness, Terror Management, and Religiosity......Page 143 Three Applications of the Theory of Postformal Thought: Wisdom, Concepts of God, and Success in College ......Page 158 Special Section Psychological Type and Christian Ministry ......Page 172 Introduction to Special Section: Psychological Type and Christian Ministry ......Page 174 Jungian Typology and Religion: A Perspective from North America ......Page 182 Psychological Type Profile of Clergywomen and Clergymen Serving in the Presbyterian Church (USA): Implications for Strengths and Weaknesses in Ministry ......Page 209 All are Called, but Some Psychological Types Are More Likely To Respond: Profiling Churchgoers in Australia......Page 229 Gifts Differing? Psychological Type among Stipendiary and Non-stipendiary Anglican Clergy ......Page 247 Psychological Type Preferences of Male and Female Free Church Ministers in England ......Page 268 Imagining Themselves as Ministers: How Religiously Committed Baptist Youth Respond to the Revised Payne Index of Ministry Styles (PIMS2) ......Page 281 Apprentice Clergy? The Relationship between Expectations in Ministry and the Psychological Type Profile of Training Incumbents and Curates in the Church of England......Page 303 Do Introverts Appreciate the Same Things as Extraverts within a Ministry Team? A Study among Leaders within the Newfrontiers Network of Churches in the United Kingdom......Page 323 The Role of Archetypes and Jungian Personality Typology in Building Religious Community: Applying John Beebe’s Eight Process Archetypal Model through a Case Study of the Extraverted Intuitive Type with Introverted Feeling (ENFP) ......Page 332 Authors’ Biographies ......Page 364 Manuscript Reviewers ......Page 368 Subject Index ......Page 370 Names Index ......Page 375