Final Exam Review

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Final Exam Review

• NOTE This is not an exhaustive list of topics,
  but represents an overview of most of the content
  areas for the final. Please study the readings
  and the notes from the lectures.

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Important Topics from Parts I II

• Outline of the History of this Field
• Glocks 5 Dimensions of Rel. Commitment
• Different Understanding of Myth
• Different Types of Conversion
• Fowlers Stages
• Religious Orientation and Grand Paradox
• Staces Elements of Mystical Experience

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Four Forces of Psychology

• For each of the 4 forces know
• How they describe the human condition
• Where problems come from and how they are solved
• The impact they have had on the psychology of
  religion
• Specific psychologists or theories we discussed

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Psychology of Forgiveness

• Definition of Forgiveness
• What it is
• What it is NOT
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• Predictors of Forgiveness
• Issues with Treatments to Promote Forgiveness
• Forgiveness and Religion

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New Religious Movements

• Definitions of cult
• Religious Typology
• Church, Sect, and Cult
• Terminology debate
• Cult vs. NRM
• Brainwashing Theory and Critique
• Loftland and Starks Conversion Model
• Personality Factors in NRMs

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Anatomy of Harmful Religion

• Different Factors
• Personality
• Cognitive
• Social
• Ethical/Moral
• Description and/or examples for each

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Religion and Health

• Hypotheses Relating Religion to Health
• Those with persuasive and consistent failure
• Mental Health Variables Related to Religion
• Understand the Limitation of Correlational
  Research
• Possible Causal Links between Religion and
  Health

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Religion and Counseling

• Two examples of expert opinion
• Ellis (1980) and Richards and Bergin (2000)
• Dealing with religious issues in therapy
• Ignore (traditional psychotherapy)
• Explicit (religiously-integrated therapy)
• Implicit (religious-accommodating therapy)
• Research on Christian Therapy