The psychology
of religion studied adolescent conversions before it asked why the psychologist left fundamentalism and became a Quaker, an Episcopalian, or a Unitarian.
«I think [the researchers] are introducing an area that has been absent in the evolution
of religion studies and is potentially an important one,» says anthropologist Candace Alcorta, also of the U Conn..
It helps if one has a reasonably sophisticated and objective view of one's own religious faith, for that makes it easier to guard against attempting to force
the religion studied into familiar molds.
And watching children of various ethnicity and
religion study and play together as one people give us the reason to be optimistic about our country's future,» said Moses, one of the Karen fighters in Thailand.
Brock Frizzell is a CIT — with a masters in clinical mental health counseling, a bachelors in psychology and
religion studies and is a certified life coach.