A Group Of Undergraduate Christian Students

What clues does the evidence provide about why different social groups were drawn to insurgent religious denominations for a more emotional style of religious worship?

The book Integrative approaches to psychology and Christianity second edition by David Entwistle introduces the text by explaining how psychology can go in a direction, and Christian theology approach can lead in a different direction. He continued by stating the need for understanding and studying human behavior because people come from different walks of life and different expectations. It leads us to form unique perspectives to help give us an understanding of the individuals you encounter. The Entwistle 's book addresses the relationship between Christianity and culture, Christianity and science, and Christianity and psychology.

James Fowler developed his stages of faith after conduction in-depth interviews of 359 people. The sample subjects were predominately white, with equal numbers of males and females and included a wide range of ages, from three and a half to 84 years old. Fowler’s interviews consisted of 30 plus questions regarding the subject’s life experiences, relationships, values, commitments and religion. After analyzing the responses, Fowler placed each subject in one of six faith stages. The responses indicated that as the subject’s age increased, so did their stage of faith (Hutchison, 2015).

What does psychology have to do with the Christian faith? In Psychology and Christianity: Five Views, by Myers, Jones, Roberts, Watson, Coe, Hall, and Powlison (2010) is an introductory textbook for Christian psychology that provides sound arguments for an array of positions on psychology and faith. Each author contributed an essay and in return the other essayist respond by either agreeing or disagreeing by pointing out faults and explaining why.

The subjects of the experimental study performed were 14 firefighters who were attendees at the Fire Academy. They were all volunteers and met the requirements to be subjects, including having no medical issues that could affect or be affected by the test and being in good physical health with no injuries. Each subject was cleared by physicians to be participants in the experiment and all agreed for information about the study to be released.

They say that first impressions are lasting impressions. Although it seems first impressions of other people are quite accurate, it can be misleading in cases such as in organizations and clubs. Many organizations are associated with stereotypes which could be the sole reason that contributes to the ‘first impression’. Church-based organizations such as Campus Christian Fellowship (CCF) have stereotypes; many of which are negative. Yet, actually participating in the organization, many will find the culture of the organization has a very pleasant aura that exposes some stereotypes that were ‘assigned’ to the organization are not true at all. CCF is an organization that is not restricted to a specific religious denomination and serving on the campuses of four colleges in North Carolina. The purpose of CCF is to “make disciples on campus who impact the world.” The culture of CFF greatly helps achieve the purpose in different ways. Because of the alarming number of stereotypes of church-based organizations, CCF refutes many misconceptions by managing the stereotypes by the aspects of their culture such as beliefs, traditions and behaviors.

University, I will be conducting a book review over the book How to Read the Bible for all its

In a third world country, 100 randomly selected people were surveyed about their socioeconomic class and religious affiliation. The results and an excerpt from the results section of this fictional study follow.

I have always believed that my Christian faith comes first and that it should be integrated into all areas of my life. Upon taking the survey: ‘What Does Integration Mean to You?’ my responses lined up with the category of "Psychology as incomplete or narrow” as my Christian approach to the role of psychology. This approach was scored three times higher than my second highest number, meaning that my views strongly correlate with this approach. The belief that goes along with this approach is that both psychology and theology are needed to gain an understanding of God’s design of humans.

How many participants (called subjects in the article) were observed, how were they selected, and how would you describe them?

For this study, Terry studied thirty-nine college students (22 women and 17 men) in groups of 6-8, who were

These studies had well developed research questions and methods of gathering information to make conclusions. However, if I was the researcher in Pfeifer’s study I would have expanded on where I got my participants to include more than just opinions of undergraduate students. In the case of Matthews and Salazar I would have tried to find more participants who identify as male. Both these studies have issues with generalization. The third study (Whitsett, 1992) had much information, however it was not compelling to read. The study did, however, provide a lot of information that the other two studies did not in terms of how cults bring members in and how the members formed their bonds.

During this experiment there were one-hundred and twenty participants that were used. The age of the participants

In this experiment there were a total of 114 participants used. Of the 114 participants, 50 participants were used for each condition, for a total of 100 participants being observed in terms of wether they stopped and looked to see what was going on or they did not stop. The other 14 participants were split into a group of five participants that recorded the data of the 100 participants who stopped or didn't and eight participants played the part of observers in each condition to the artist that was to attract the 100 participants. The 14 participants that took part in conducting the experiment, were 11 females and three males. For the 100 participants, there were 64 male participants and 36 female participants. For this experiment age and ethnicity

Four participants were separate and sit apart for individual observation. Each researcher was responsible for one participant and observed their reactions to the funny video. After that, all participants gathered together and watched their favorite funny videos. One of the researcher was responsible to count the number of times they laugh.