Aktuelles aus Theologie und Religionsforschung

Vom 21. bis 25. August 2011 fand die Konferenz der International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR) in Bari, Italien statt. Mit zwei Panels war unsere Forschergruppe aus Bielefeld gut repräsentiert.

Im Panel "Both Sides of the Medal: Xenophobia, Prejudice, and Religious Cognition" haben vorgetragen:

• H. Streib: "Does Religious cognition facilitate or prevent xenophobia and violence in adolescents"
• A.-K. Henseler: "Fuelling religious conflict - studies on the interaction between ideolocal beliefs and religious identification" (co-authored by H. Cavacho and A.Zick)
• C.Klein: "Your religion is not bad - but mine is better: What indirect measures can tell us about inter-religious attitudes"

Im Panel "Horizontal Transcendence and Spirituality in cross-cultral research" haben vorgetragen:

• C.Silver: "The promise of international collaborative research: Benefits and disadvantages in methodology and paradigm" (co-author: R.W. Hood)
• H.Streib: "The spirituality of atheists, agnostics and deconverts" (co-athor: C.Klein) [pdf]
• B.Keller: "Exploring spiritual narrative identies: Implicitly atheist, agnostic, or religious?" [pdf]
• A. Swhajor: "Self-rated atheists, highly religious and highly spiritual persons and their semantics regarding religion and spirituality" (co-autors: D. Ticu; S.Luhmann) [pdf]