Lewis R Rambo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis R Rambo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rambo |
| SIGNATURE | RAMBO L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring Cultural Psychology: Introduction to a Book Forum on Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion: Principles, Approaches, Applications by Jacob A. Belzen
Introduction to the Book Forum on Big Dreams
Understanding Religious Conversion
Religious conversion provides converts with an opportunity to embrace a community of faith and a philosophy that nurture and guide, that offer a focus for loyalty and a framework for action. Whether the conversion is from one religious tradition to another, from one denomination to another, from no involvement to participation in a religious community, or is an intensification of commitment within one's faith, the process can be complex but compe…
Response to Handbook Reviewers
Introduction to Issue
Conversion and the Historic Spread of Religions
A useful way of reviewing the different understandings of conversion is to examine conversion in connection with the spread of religions through propagation and conversion. Three religions in particular, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, have been the most missionary of the world religions. This chapter considers conversion in the light of the historic spread of these three religions. Their spread is viewed social scientifically as being the res…
“Conversion” to Islam and the Construction of a Pious Self
Contains fulltext : 129869.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
The Role of Language in Religious Conversion
While some argue that the conversion experience is ineffable, such experiences can only be communicated through language. This means that the properties of language are necessarily intertwined with both believers’ and observers’ attempts to understand the conversion experience and its implications. Here, several language-based approaches to the conversion are reviewed. The most important of these are: (1) consideration of the narrative features o…
Anthropology of Religious Conversion
This chapter analyzes important approaches in anthropology that have dealt with religious change. The central question is how anthropologists identify and analyze the main factors in the conversion process. The chapter deals with the approaches in chronological order, describing their main authors and ideas, their conceptualization of religious conversion, and their methodologies. The main conclusion is that anthropologists have struggled to come…
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (OHRC) is one of the latest releases in the ambitious Oxford Handbooks series, the purpose of which is to offer “an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular subject area.” The specific goal of the OHRC is to provide “an invitation to a model of conversion studies that is global, interdisciplinary, multireligious, and inclusive of the personal, social, cu…
Toward a Psychology of Converting in the People’s Republic of China
Psychology of Religion: Toward a Multidisciplinary Paradigm
Psychology of Conversion and Spiritual Transformation
Conversion Studies, Pastoral Counseling, and Cultural Studies: Engaging and Embracing a New Paradigm
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Film Review
Introducing a Book Forum on Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
Film Review: After Life: Memory, Death, and Transcendence in Japan
Film Review
Introduction to the Special Issue
Theories of Conversion: Understanding and Interpreting Religious Change
The author explores the nature of theory and provides an overview of resources for the study of conversion to Islam. Theory is valuable in so far as it illuminates different aspects of a phenomenon. Various theoretical approaches include some dimensions and exclude others. Scholars of conversion must be aware of theoretical issues and systematically utilize theoretical options with sophistication. Such an approach will expand understanding of con…
Film Review
Film Review
Religious Conversion and Personality Change
The question of whether religious conversion causes changes in someone's personality is examined in light of two bodies of literature-the research on personality change and the research on conversion. When the theory and research on personality change is applied to the question of whether conversion causes such change, the answer depends on what level of personality is of concern. Research on the relation between religious conversion and a variet…
Film Review
Bodies and Souls: Continuing Conundrums
Although affirming much of what Malony states, issue is taken with his treatment of sexuality. Sexuality has been a prime issue for Christianity and should be accorded a central focus in understanding body/soul problems. More attention should be paid to the natural sciences than Malony accepts. Further, there is no need to polarize imma- nence and transcendence in understanding religion, as Malony suggests
Religious Conversion and Personality Change
The question of whether religious conversion causes changes in someone's personality is examined in light of two bodies of literature-the research on personality change and the research on conversion. When the theory and research on personality change is applied to the question of whether conversion causes such change, the answer depends on what level of personality is of concern. Research on the relation between religious conversion and a variet…
Psychology of Conversion and Spiritual Transformation
Conversion: Toward a holistic model of religious change
Charisma and conversion
Conversion Studies, Pastoral Counseling, and Cultural Studies: Engaging and Embracing a New Paradigm
Toward a Psychology of Converting in the People’s Republic of China
Psychology of Religion: Toward a Multidisciplinary Paradigm
Film Review
Publication Trends in the Psychology of Religion to 1974
This study analyzes publication trends in the psychology of religion for the purpose of identifying the recent history and current status of the more prominent research areas in the discipline. Based primarily on publications since 1950, it classifies the publications according to six dimensions of religion. It then compares the dimensions in terms of total number of publications at five year intervals to 1974. The directional dimension is found …
Gurus, Swamis, and Avataras: Spiritual Masters and Their American Disciples. Marvin Henry Harper
Pragmatism as Humanism: The Philosophy of William James . Patrick K. Dooley
Publication Trends in the Psychology of Religion to 1974
This study analyzes publication trends in the psychology of religion for the purpose of identifying the recent history and current status of the more prominent research areas in the discipline. Based primarily on publications since 1950, it classifies the publications according to six dimensions of religion. It then compares the dimensions in terms of total number of publications at five year intervals to 1974. The directional dimension is found …
Psychology of Religion: A Guide to Information Sources
Current Perspectives in the Psychology of Religion
Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship
A trenchant analysis of modern psychology -- an enterprise that Paul Vitz maintains has become a religion, a secular cult of self, now part of the problem of modern life rather than part of its resolution. Virtually rewritten, this second edition of the original 1977 text takes into account much of what has happened in the field of psychology during the past seventeen years. Two completely new chapters are also included -- one on education and va…
Reflections on the Task of Integration
This article is a response to the six articles on the integration of psychology and theology which comprise this issue. The article is divided into three parts. Part I consists of specific reactions to each of the articles. Part II is a brief overview of three modes of integration. Part III outlines some of the issues and trends which emerge in the six articles and includes projections about the future of the integration task
Ethics, evolution, and the psychology of William James
William James's psychology is here examined in the context of his normative ethics and his concern for evolution. James's notion of the strenuous life, the core of his normative vision, is shown to be crucial to his psychology of consciousness, self, attention, and will. Moreover, James's ethical concerns were not only implicit in his psychological writings, but his psychology delineated the human capacities which enable a person to engage in vig…
Conversion: Perspectives on Personal and Social Transformation
Religious Conversion and Personal Identity
Current Research on Religious Conversion
Charisma and conversion
Conversion: Toward a holistic model of religious change
Reflections on conflict in Israel and the West Bank
Congregational care and discipline in the San Francisco Church of Christ: A case study
Film Review
Bodies and Souls: Continuing Conundrums
Although affirming much of what Malony states, issue is taken with his treatment of sexuality. Sexuality has been a prime issue for Christianity and should be accorded a central focus in understanding body/soul problems. More attention should be paid to the natural sciences than Malony accepts. Further, there is no need to polarize imma- nence and transcendence in understanding religion, as Malony suggests
Film Review
Theories of Conversion: Understanding and Interpreting Religious Change
The author explores the nature of theory and provides an overview of resources for the study of conversion to Islam. Theory is valuable in so far as it illuminates different aspects of a phenomenon. Various theoretical approaches include some dimensions and exclude others. Scholars of conversion must be aware of theoretical issues and systematically utilize theoretical options with sophistication. Such an approach will expand understanding of con…
Film Review
Film Review
Religious Conversion and Personality Change
The question of whether religious conversion causes changes in someone's personality is examined in light of two bodies of literature-the research on personality change and the research on conversion. When the theory and research on personality change is applied to the question of whether conversion causes such change, the answer depends on what level of personality is of concern. Research on the relation between religious conversion and a variet…
Film Review: After Life: Memory, Death, and Transcendence in Japan
Film Review
Introduction to the Special Issue
Psychology (28 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Psychoanalysis (22 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Cross-cultural psychology (19 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (18 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Epistemology (14 works)