REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Developing the Psychology of Religious Cognition in Brazil
The aim
The aim
A competition funded by the John Templeton Foundation and entitled Developing the Psychology of Religious Cognition in Brazil seeks to provide seed funding to early and established faculty for questions pursuing unanswered questions that fall within the following categories:
A competition funded by the John Templeton Foundation and entitled Developing the Psychology of Religious Cognition in Brazil seeks to provide seed funding to early and established faculty for questions pursuing unanswered questions that fall within the following categories:
RELIGIOUS
RELIGIOUS
IDENTITY
IDENTITY
Religious identity, including its construction in the light of syncretism, its development over the lifespan, and religious switching, conversion, deconversion
Religious identity, including its construction in the light of syncretism, its development over the lifespan, and religious switching, conversion, deconversion
SUPERNATURAL
SUPERNATURAL
ATTRIBUTION
ATTRIBUTION
Supernatural attribution, including potential cognitive dissonance among competing attributional accounts (e.g., God, saints, spirits) and internal vs. external agency attributions in spirit possession, and theodicy
Supernatural attribution, including potential cognitive dissonance among competing attributional accounts (e.g., God, saints, spirits) and internal vs. external agency attributions in spirit possession, and theodicy
REPRESENTATIONS OF
REPRESENTATIONS OF
SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
Representations of supernatural beings, including attributes of, locality of, and relationships to God, spirits, and saints, drawing on attachment theory and/or other relevant theoretical frameworks, either in cross-sectional or lifespan perspectives
Representations of supernatural beings, including attributes of, locality of, and relationships to God, spirits, and saints, drawing on attachment theory and/or other relevant theoretical frameworks, either in cross-sectional or lifespan perspectives
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