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Assessing Spirituality & Religiosity

 



For graduate students, clinicians, and researchers, this is going to be a classic text--Informative, to-the-point, easy to read, and useful. This is worth your time to pour over! --Everett L. Worthington, Jr.

Assessing Spirituality & Religiosity: A Handbook

Beliefs, Practices, Values, & Experiences

ISBN 9798872696711 (As an Amazon affiliate I may earn money from links)

Assessing Spirituality and Religiosity is a handbook for clinicians and researchers who explore this importance dimension of self-identity. More than 7 billion people express their spirituality as members of one of the world’s great religions. In recent decades, the assessment of religiosity and spirituality has filled journals with informative studies. This handbook aims to provide clinicians and researchers with a way to organize hundreds of these instruments.

Reviews

There are very, very few psychologists I admire as much as my long-time friend, Geoff Sutton. I emphasize long-time because I’ve had the opportunity to know Geoff and learn from him for almost 50 years. He’s a person of deep faith, psychotherapist, teacher, and independent scholar par excellence. Assessing Spirituality & Religiosity: A Handbook, Geoff’s latest work, is near the pinnacle of his scholarly contributions to Christian (and even secular) psychology. For graduate students, clinicians, and researchers, this is going to be a classic text--Informative, to-the-point, easy to read, and useful. This is worth your time to pour over!

-Everett L. Worthington, Jr.

Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University

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In Assessing Spirituality and Religiosity: A Handbook, Professor Sutton offers a helpful and up-to-date guide on the many tools that researchers and clinicians alike can use to best assess various dimensions of spirituality and religiosity. The handbook will likely be a valuable go-to source for many and will be a trusted text for those interested in this critically important aspect of human behavior.

-Thomas G. Plante, PhD, ABPP

Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ University Professor, Santa Clara University and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine. Author of Spiritually Informed Therapy and Living Better with Spiritually Based Strategies that Work.

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Good assessment is critical to effective research and clinical practice. In Assessing Spirituality & Religiosity, Dr. Sutton organizes and summarizes hundreds of measures related to religion and spirituality. If you do work in the psychology of religion field (or work with religious clients), this will be a helpful guide. 

-Joshua N. Hook, PhD

Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, author of The Complete Researcher: A Practical Guide for Graduate Students and Early Career Professionals

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“Sutton has done it again!  His commitment to elevate the quality of research in the field of faith and spirituality has produced an incredibly valuable resource.  With resources like this, researchers in the faith community will be able to increasingly provide empirical evidence for the “reason for the hope that lies within us” (I Peter 3:15).”

-Johan Mostert PhD

Professor Emeritus of Community Psychology, Evangel University Co-author, Life in 5D: A New Vision of Discipleship

www.discipleshipdynamics.com


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Author Information

Geoffrey W. Sutton suttong.com

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APA Reference

Sutton, G. W. (2023). Assessing spirituality & religiosity: A Handbook | Beliefs, practices, values, & experiences. Springfield, MO: Sunflower Press.

Key Words: Psychology of Religion, Psychology of Spirituality, Psychological Assessment

 

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