An International Review of Empirical Research on the Psychology of Fundamentalism
Dec 2023 · BRILL
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An International Review of Empirical Research on the Psychology of Fundamentalism is a sequel to Williamson (2020), who examined the sociohistorical emergence of fundamentalism and controversial conceptions of the movement that have dominated decades of empirical research in psychology. He concluded by calling for a critical review of this sizable literature, amassed from the early 20th century. In the present book, W. Paul Williamson and Sarah Demmrich respond by providing summaries and critical observations for 365 empirical studies, collected and organized from peer-reviewed journals. A summary of findings indicated that the largest share of statistical associations between study variables and fundamentalism was moderate in size, followed by those that were weak, and then by strong relationships, which were much less frequent. However, this observed pattern of relationships, particularly those characterized by moderate and especially strong associations, much reflected the findings from sexual bias studies. Finally, the authors offer critical considerations for sample selection, methodology, and theoretical applications in future fundamentalism research.
An International Review of Empirical Research on the Psychology of Fundamentalism is a sequel to Williamson (2020), who examined the sociohistorical emergence of fundamentalism and controversial conceptions of the movement that have dominated decades of empirical research in psychology. He conclu...
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W. Paul Williamson, Ph.D. (1999), is Professor of Psychology at Henderson State University (USA). He has authored/co-authored numerous articles and books on psychology of religion, including The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism (Guilford, 2005) and Conjectures and Controversy in the Study of Fundamentalism (Brill, 2020).
Sarah Demmrich (m. Kaboğan), Ph.D. (2014), is a Post-doc researcher at the University of Münster (Germany) and Associate Professor of Empirical Research on Religion and Interreligious Studies at the University of Berne (Switzerland). She was the leader of the research project "Religious Fundamentalism" at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at University of Münster (2019-2021) and is currently working on the project "Resentment as the Affective Basis of Radicalization" at the same university.
Sarah Demmrich (m. Kaboğan), Ph.D. (2014), is a Post-doc researcher at the University of Münster (Germany) and Associate Professor of Empirical Research on Religion and Interreligious Studies at the University of Berne (Switzerland). She was the leader of the research project "Religious Fundamentalism" at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at University of Münster (2019-2021) and is currently working on the project "Resentment as the Affective Basis of Radicalization" at the same university.
W. Paul Williamson, Ph.D. (1999), is Professor of Psychology at Henderson State University (USA). He has authored/co-authored numerous articles and books on psychology of religion, including The Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism (Guilford, 2005) and Conjectures and Controversy in the Study o...
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