Postgraduate Reading List
MA Pscyhology of Religion
If you had time to read one or two of the following, it would be useful preparation, introducing you to the field.
James, W. (1902). The varieties of religious experience. Penguin version published 1983. This text should be read by all students in preparation for the course.
Argyle, M. (1999). Psychology and religion: An introduction. London, Routledge.
Bowker, J. (1997). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. Oxford University Press.
Colman, A. (2001). A dictionary of psychology. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Hewstone, M., Fincham, D., & Foster, J. (2005). Psychology. Oxford, Blackwell.
Hogg, M. & Vaughan, G. (2007). Social psychology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall.
McGrath, A. (1995). The Blackwell encyclopaedia of modern Christian thought. Blackwell.
Myers, D. (2006). Psychology. New York, Worth.
Smith, E. et al. (2003). Atkinson and Hilgard’s introduction to psychology. Belmont, CA, Wadworth.