Chapter 9 Reading Guide

  1. Identify the three features of the letter from a psychotic which Palouzian comments on on pages 235-240.
  2. Give 2 examples of mental illness in religious leaders
  3. What is the faulty argument that is sometimes based on this type of example
  4. List 2 examples of strange behavior of religious followers
  5. What is Albert Ellis' position on religion?
  6. What type of upbringing leads to more religiosity in adulthood? (top of page 241)
  7. What are three possible explanations for this relationship?
  8. Is religion related to the authoritarian personnality?
  9. What did each of the following articles find about the relationship?
    1. Glock and Stark (1966)
    2. Dittes (1969)
    3. Stark (1971) review of the research
    4. Kildahl (1965)
  10. What did Rokeach do in 1960
  11. What did each of the following articles find about dogmatism?
    1. Rokeach (1960)
    2. Paloutzian, et al. (1978)
    3. Rashke (1973)
    4. Stanley (1964)
  12. Is there a relationship between suggestibility and religiousity? (last paragraph page 245)
  13. What are three possible explanations of this?
  14. What is the relationship between intelligence (IQ) and religiousity?
  15. How do scientists differ from the general population in religiousity?
  16. Report the statistics in the book concerning psychologists and religion.
  17. What did each of the following studies find out about the relationship between religion and mental health?
    1. Dittes, 1969
    2. Rokeach, 1960
    3. Spilka and Werme, 1971
  18. What emerges as a tentative conclusion? (page 249)
  19. On page 251 the author says, "The above studies suggest . . . "  What?
  20. List the three possible ways of handling these conflicting findings.
  21. Identify "hard" and "soft" measures of mental health
  22. What is the overall relationship between these measure and mental health
  23. What overall trends did Ventis (1995) find in the relationship between type of religiousity and menatl health. (page 253)
  24. What did Pargament, Steele, and Tyler (1979) find about religion and coping?
  25. List Pargament and Park's (1995) conclusions. (page 254)
  26. What did Carl Sagan (1994) find in his study of healing.
  27. The author summarizes the relationship between religion and physical health in the middle paragraph on page 256.  He says, "It is clear that the . . . " What?
  28. List the pathways.
  29. What did Kalish (1963) find about religion and fear of death.
  30. List the two aspects of this.
  31. What does the author conclude about fear of death and religiousity (top of page 258). "It would appear that . . . "
  32. Several findings have emerged concerning spiritual well-being, loneliness, and religiousity.  Summarize.
  33. Summarize the results of Rebecca Propst's 1992 research on religious counselling.


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