Review of Religious Research 

About: Review of Religious Research is an academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Religiosity & Sociology of religion. It has an ISSN identifier of 2211-4866. Over the lifetime, 2024 publications have been published receiving 45501 citations. The journal is also known as: Rev Relig Res.

The psychology of religion and coping : theory, research, practice

Abstract: 1. An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion and Coping I. A Perspective on Religion 2. The Sacred and the Search for Significance 3. Religious Pathways and Religious Destinations II. A Perspective on Coping 4. An Introduction to the Concept of Coping 5. The Flow of Coping III. The Religion and Coping Connection 6. When People Turn to Religion: When They Turn Away 7. The Many Faces of Religion in Coping 8. Religion and the Mechanisms of Coping: The Conservation of Significance 9. Religion and the Mechanisms of Coping: The Transformation of Significance IV. Evaluative and Practical Implications 10. Does It Work? Religion and the Outcomes of Coping 11. When Religion Fails: Problems of Integration in the Process of Coping 12. Putting Religion into Practice

Classifying Protestant Denominations

Abstract: Although the importance of religion as an attitudinal predictor in general and as a marker of cultural pluralism in particular has been increasing acknowledged in recent years (Smith, 1986), the use of religion in sociological analysis has been stunted by the difficulty of working with denominational variables. The basic reason for the difficulty is the complex nature of America's denominational profile. As the Reverend J. Gordon Melton-America's champion church hunter, once remarked, "We are probably the most religious people-and the most diversely religious people-on earth." Our tradition of religious pluralism goes deeply into our colonial history. Edwin S. Gaustad noted that even as early as the 17th century one found "Huguenots in Charleston, Anglicans in Tidewater Virginia, Catholics in St. Mary's City, Swedish Lutherans along the Delaware, Quakers and Presbyterians further up the river, Dutch Reform in Manhattan, Puritans in New England, Baptists, and Heaven-knows-what-else in Rhode Island." Early in the history of the American republic, the French aristocrat Talleyrand is reported to have derisively observed that the United States had 32 religions, but only one sauce. Since then America has continued to both import foreign and spawn indigenous religions, until by the late 1970s Melton came up with a list of 1,187 primary denominations in the United States. This makes religion a difficult variable to collect and probably even more troublesome to use. It leaves the analyst with a myriad of small, obscure, and easily confused groups to sift through. This problem is compounded by lack of government data on religion. Because the Census Bureau feels proscribed by the First Amendment from including religious affiliation questions on either the Census or the Current Population Survey (CPS), authoritative, fine-grain statistics on religion are in short supply. (The census of religious bodies was last conducted in 1936 and the CPS has not asked about religion since 1957. "Religion," 1958 and Mueller and Lane, 1972).