Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Datos Biográficos

ID187357
NOMBREBenjamin Beit-Hallahmi
NOMBRESBenjamin
APELLIDOBeit-Hallahmi
FIRMABEIT-HALLAHMI B
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Haifa
ORCID0000-0001-6663-8312
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS82
TOTAL DE CITAS82
TOTAL COMO AUTOR82
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1971
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Academic Advocacy for New Religious Movements

    Open AccessBenjamin Beit-HallahmiBOOKAcademic Advocacy for New…2025

  • Love, Religion, and Secularity

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLESecular Studies2021

    McCaffree's challenge to traditional definitions of religion, and his suggestion that religiosity is about individual integration into a moral community are discussed. This is taken as an opportunity to examine difficulties in defining religion, and attempts to go around the definition issues by offering analogies. Religious emotion, as discussed by William James and Emile Durkheim, is found to be no different than strong emotions directed at our…

  • Fast and Slow

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEJournal for the Cognitive Science…2021

    Are there any methodological issues unique to the psychology of religion? The claim has been made that the psychology of religion was decisively hampered by its inability to conduct true experiments. Looking at the past half-century, it is shown that there are no limits on experimentation in the field, and that both interesting theories and original experiments have been mainstreaming it within psychology. The rise of CSR has been a major stimulu…

  • Flesh and Blood

    Benjamin Beit-HallahmiBOOKFlesh and Blood2020

    Fears and stories about an underground religion devoted to Satan, which demands and carries out child sacrifice, appeared in the United States in the late twentieth century and became the subject of media reports supported by some mental health professionals. Examining these modern fantasies leads us back to ancient stories which in some cases believers consider the height of religious devotion. Horrifying ideas about human sacrifice, child sacri…

  • The Secular Landscape

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLESecular Studies2020

  • On neither burying nor praising religion

    Open AccessBenjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLECritical Research on Religion2017Referencias: 6

    In response to the April 2017 Critical Research on Religion editorial "On a balanced critique: (or on the limits of critique)," the author suggests first that defining religion is possible and helpful, and that even those who claim not to define the subject demonstrate knowledge of its boundaries. Academic research on religion can offer useful generalizations and insights, while having no impact on the fortunes of religion in the real world. When…

  • Resisting the match between religion and “spirituality”

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2015

    In this Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, with scores of authors working independently, one cannot expect uniformity. The voices are unique and express the contributors' know

  • The Cultural and the Universal in Nonbelievers

    Open AccessBenjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEPsychological Reports2015

    The study by Jing (2014) is examined and analyzed within a broader theoretical framework. A general definition of religion is presented, together with a brief description of what makes religion a universal product of human cognition. What we have been observing is a general decrease in religiosity as well as an increase in the number of individuals who describe themselves as nonbelievers. Secularization does not mean that religious ideas disappea…

  • Education, Gender, and Ethnicity in Religious and Non-religious Populations in the United States

    A Keysar, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    This comment extends the analysis proposed by James Lewis in his research note in the May 2015 issue of the Journal of Contemporary Religion. Looking at data from the United States, the normalization of non-religiosity is explored. It is concluded that, while those identifying as atheist or agnostic are clearly of higher education and income levels, most of the generic ‘nones’, who are simply unaffiliated but may hold religious beliefs, are close…

  • Studying atheism and the psychology of religiosity

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2012

    Let me start by stating that this is a piece of serious and challenging scholarship. It seeks to locate the phenomenon of atheism within the normal variance in the measurement of religiosity. I fin

  • Fear of the dead, fear of death

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEMortality2012

    The claim that aversion to dead bodies reflects a non-conscious response to objective physiological danger is thoroughly examined. No evidence is found for the idea that corpses are especially dangerous as potential sources of contamination. While reactions to dead bodies vary greatly among humans, depending on personal and cultural factors, fear of the dead is tied to the awareness of mortality. Humans react to the presence of death by transform…

  • Exploring the atheist personality

    Catherine L Caldwell-Harris, Angela L Wilson et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2011

    Atheists are America’s least trusted group, and stereotypes about them abound: Atheists are non-conformist, sceptical, cynical, and joyless, rarely experiencing awe. Atheists (N = 42) were recruited from the American atheist website and compared to Christians (N = 22) and Buddhists (N = 18). Groups were highly similar in their reported well-being, empathy, and other personality scales, but differed strongly on scales assessing Spirituality and Ma…

  • Do we need to restart the psychology of religion? Commentary on Belzen (2010)

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2010

    What Jacob Belzen is offering us here is a manifesto for a cultural psychology of religion. This is first an academic exposition, which includes an impressive literature review, a thorough-going critique, and the offer of a new solution for what ails the psychology of religion today. My points of agreement and disagreement with Belzen will be discussed below. Naturally, more space will be devoted to the latter, where more discussion is needed

  • Psychoanalysis and theism

    Benjamin Beit-HallahmiBOOKPsychoanalysis and theism2010

  • The social psychology of religion

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Michael ArgyleBOOKThe social psychology of religion2008

  • From Love to Evolution

    Open AccessBenjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEArchive for the Psychology of…2006

    Kirkpatrick's contribution is evaluated in the context of historical developments and persistent crisis in the psychology of religion. The field has been characterized by the lack of a unifying theory, as well as by some literature being driven by religious apologetics. Kirkpatrick's approach has been truly theory-driven, always seeking a general psychological framework for analyzing religion and religiosity. His personal odyssey led him to embra…

  • The Al Qaeda 9/11 instructions

    Yuval Neria, David Roe et al.ARTICLEReligion2005Citada por: 2Referencias: 7

    A growing global concern about suicide attacks has led to attempts from various disciplines to understand the psychological profiles of persons willing to commit suicide terrorist attacks. Recent reports have suggested that more powerful explanatory models might be discovered using social psychological concepts, with a shift of focus from the individual to the group within which the individual acts and by which the individual is influenced. This …

  • The return of martyrdom

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLETotalitarian Movements &…2003

    (2003). The return of martyrdom: Honour, death and immortality. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 11-34

  • Ten Comments on Watching Closely the Gaps Between Beliefs and Actions

    Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLETerrorism and Political Violence2002Citada por: 1

    (2002). Ten Comments on Watching Closely the Gaps Between Beliefs and Actions. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 123-144

  • Religion, Psychopathology and Coping

    Lynne M Jackson, Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1998

  • Soul on the couch

    Open AccessBenjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin Beit‐hallahmiARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1998

  • Religion, Psychopathology and Coping

    Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Halina Grzymala-Mosczynska et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1998

    Introduction. Section. 1. [Theoretical Overviews]. J.A. van BELZEN: Methodological perspectives on psychopathology and religion: a historical review. M.H.F. van UDEN & J.Z.T. PIEPER: Mental health and religion: a theoretical survey. Jozef CORVELEYN: The psychological explanation of religion as wish-fulfilment. A test-case: The belief in immortality. Benjamin BEIT-HALLAHMI: Religion as psychopathology: Exploring a metaphor. Halina GRZYMALA-MOSZCZY…

  • The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience

    Douglas E Trimble, Douglas Trimble et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1998

    Because society is increasingly secular, it may seem irrelevant to consider the psychology of religion. But the diversity of our multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society in fact makes religion more important to the social sciences than it has ever been before. What are the social consequences of religion? Every day the news is full of events that can be blamed on religion perpetrated by a range of groups from whole societies to individuals. Beit-H…

  • The Personal and the Political

    Open AccessSimha F Landau, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research1998Citada por: 10Referencias: 36

  • Not quite vanished citations

    Yair Bar-Haim, Yair Bar‐haim et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1997