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Psychology of Religion

Argyle (1990) has defined the psychology of religion as a search for psychological explanations of the religious experience. The field also includes research attempting to determine the influence of the religious experience on a person's subsequent psychology.

According to Argyle (1990), some of the most studied areas of the psychology of religion include satanic ritual abuse, the conversion experience, and psychological states associated with the awareness of a sacred presence in nature, music, and mystical experience. Of interest in these studies is determining the effects of religious experience in terms of health, subjective well-being, and a sense of inner meaning. Or, conversely, as in the case of satanic ritual abuse, the focus of the research is on determining the pathology that gives rise to the behavior and its negative psychoemotional effects on victims. Treatment and therapies for disorders arising from negative religious experience such as satanic ritual abuse are also a large part of the existing literature.

This paper presents a review of the literature on satanic ritual abuse in an effort to show some of the more current work being done in the field of the psychology of religion. The reviewed research is delineated and discussed in two parts. First, the paper presents a summarization of the research on satanic ritual abuse. Second, an analysis and synthesis is presented in which the reviewed material is discussed in terms of its contribution to the field. Further, the validity of the conducted research is examined and practical applications of the research are derived.

The literature on satanic ritual abuse, in the main, focuses on, the psychoemotional consequences to its victims and on treatment interventions. A few of the most current studies in both these areas are reviewed here.

Consequences to Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse

One very current study focusing on the consequences of satan...

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