Books / Book Chapters

  • Montero Orphanopoulos, C. (in press). Abuso en contextos eclesiales: Esferas de daño y claves para la reparación. In C. Álvarez (Ed.) Reparación de Abusos en Contextos Eclesiales. Ediciones Alberto Hurtado.

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  • Sharp, C. A., Brown, J., & Farias, M. (in press). Social psychological contributions to understanding the role of religion in human relationships. In S. Laham (Ed.) Handbook of Ethics in Psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Kline, P. (2024). Ethical-religious seduction: Laplanche and Kierkegaard on the priority of the other. Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, 67(1), 20-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2024-0027

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Conference Presentations

  • Donahue-Martens, S. (2025, Fall). Interpathic perspective taking: Patient views on successful spiritual care. Presentation for Providence Health and Services Chaplains at Providence St. Vincent’s Medical Center. West Haven-Sylva, OR.

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  • Donahue-Martens, S., Hodges, S., & LaBouff, J. (2025, August). A tale of two perspective: Chaplain and patient perceptions of success. Talk accepted for presentation at the International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference. Birmingham, UK.

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  • Murjan, A. (2025, August). "Letting go" as religious coping with racism: A study of the White Garment Church in the UK. In C. Callizo (Chair), Religious Contexts Between Hardship and Healing: Trauma, Forgiveness, Coping and Well-being [Panel accepted for presentation] International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference. Birmingham, UK.

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  • Woolley, A. (2025, November). Freedom to Flourish? Using psychological self-determination theory to investigate an innovative programme supporting women’s doctoral research in theology. Paper accepted for presentation at American Academy of Religion. Boston, MA.

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  • Turner, C. (2025, June). Necessary interdisciplinary reflections? Psychological research and the Church of England’s theology around racism. In K. Muriithi Ndereba (Chair), Finding our way home: A panel on psychology-engaged practical theology from Global South perspective [Panel accepted for presentation] International Academy of Practical Theology Conference. Saskatoon, Canada.

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  • Young, A. (2025, June). Exploring the impacts of self-compassion on self-efficacy in BIPOC parents. In K. Muriithi Ndereba (Chair), Finding our way home: A panel on psychology-engaged practical theology from Global South perspective [Panel accepted for presentation] International Academy of Practical Theology Conference. Saskatoon, Canada.

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  • Chu, A. G. (2025, June). Left-behind elderly parents: Psychology-informed theology and the recent Hong Kong migration wave. In K. Muriithi Ndereba (Chair), Finding our way home: A panel on psychology-engaged practical theology from Global South perspective [Panel accepted for presentation] International Academy of Practical Theology Conference. Saskatoon, Canada.

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  • Muriithi Ndereba, K. (2025, June). Leading youth homeward: Mental health resilience through an African theology of hospitality. In K. Muriithi Ndereba (Chair), Finding our way home: A panel on psychology-engaged practical theology from Global South perspective [Panel accepted for presentation] International Academy of Practical Theology Conference. Saskatoon, Canada.

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  • Jorgenson, A.G. (2025, August). Ageing in a liminal time. In C. Callizo (Chair), Religious contexts between hardship and healing: Trauma, forgiveness, coping, and well-being [Panel accepted for presentation] International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference. Birmingham, UK.

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  • Jorgenson, A.G. (2025, June). Eschatology and ageing. In D. Rempel (Chair), Eschatology and wellness. [Panel accepted for presentation] Canadian Theological Society, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Toronto, Canada.

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  • Muriithi Ndereba, K. (2025, March). Left behind? Reframing pastoral care and mental health in view of amillennial eschatology. Talk presented at the 15th Annual Conference and AGM of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology. Nairobi, Kenya

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  • Moerman, S. (2025, August). Silenced: Empirical effects of pandemic restrictions on music-making. In S. Moerman (Chair), Embodied faith: Art, movement, and place in spiritual practice [Panel accepted for presentation] International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference. Birmingham, UK.

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  • Moerman, S. (2025, July). "He who sings, prays twice"? Music as a pathway to spiritual and moral formation. In H. Cawdron (Chair), Psychology-engaged theology [Panel accepted for presentation] European Academy of Religion. Vienna, Austria.

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  • Guthrie, C. (2025, February). Religious identity, moral cooperation, and perceptions of moral decline…or when you are done with religion, but religion is not done with you. Talk presented at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference. Norfolk, VA.

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  • Chu, A. G. (2025, August). The theology and social role of Christian organizations in supporting older adults in Hong Kong whose adult children migrated through the BN(O) visa scheme. In A. G. Young (Chair), Exploring science engaged practical theologies across the global majority [Panel accepted for presentation] International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference. Birmingham, UK.

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  • Łazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, E. (2025, August). Locating God and contemplative prayer: A qualitative study of Polish Catholics. Talk accepted for presentation at the International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference. Birmingham, UK.

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  • Taylor, S. (2025 August.) Listen up. The social impact of selected religious practices. Talk accepted for presenation at the International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference. Birmingham, UK

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  • Chu, A. G., Robertson, R. S., & Lee, V. W. P. (2025, June). Older adults and virtual representations in Hong Kong: A proposal. Talk accepted for presentation at the 24th Biennial International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. Eindhoven, the Netherlands

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  • Taylor, L. M. (2025, June). Christians’ ideal selves: Shaped by god-concepts, oriented altruistically. Talk accepted for presentation at the 12th International Spirituality Conference: Evolving and Flourishing in an Age of Disruption. Calgary, Canada and online.

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  • Taylor, L. M. (2025, March). Sharing faith, imaging God, nourishing hope: Faith and hope that is relational, mysterious, and transformational. Talk presented at Hope Conference, Laidlaw College. Auckland, NZ.

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  • Cawdron, H. (2025, February). Parting the waters? Dissociative identity disorder and baptism. Talk presented at the Logos Institute Research Seminar. St. Andrews, UK.

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  • Chu, A. G. (2025, August). Left-behind: Elderly parents and Hong Kong Baptist churches. Talk accepted for presentation at Baptist Scholars International Roundtable. Oxford, UK.

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  • Chu, A. G. (2025, June). Left-behind elderly parents: The theology and social role of Christian organisations in supporting older adults in Hong Kong whose adult children migrated through the British National (Overseas) Visa Scheme. Talk accepted for presentation at the Asian Practical Theology International Conference: Intersection of Trauma and Practical Theology in Asia. Hong Kong, China.

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  • Kevern, R. (2024, November). "Whether in the body or out of the body I do not know": Mystical experience and the body in the Alister Hardy archive. Paper presented at the Spirituality and Mysticism Postgraduate Seminar, Sarum College and St. Mary’s University. Salisbury, UK.

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  • Watanabe, S., Sharp, C.A., & Catling, J. C. (2025, February). “It’s not me, it’s you!” What theologians’ perceptions and meta-perceptions reveal about psychology. Talk accepted for presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-conference on Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Denver, CO.

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  • Taylor, L. M., & Bent, J. (2024, September). My God! I want to be like you! Empirical analysis of identity and authenticity in recently baptized adults. Paper presented at Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conference. Durham, UK.

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  • Kline, P. (2024, August). Attachment theory, religion, and the unconscious. Paper presented at the East Coast Research Seminar, University of Divinity. Brisbane, Australia.

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  • Kline, P. (2024, May). Infinite seduction: Laplanche, religion, and the sexual unconscious. Paper presented at the Center for Clinical Arts. Nashville, TN.

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  • Tanton, T. (2024, August). God-nature overlap and environmental care: Considering the psychological evidence. Paper presented at the biennial European Conference on Science and Theology. Split, Croatia.

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  • Taylor, L. M. (2024, July). Science-engaged theology: Insights from Birmingham. Talk presented at Practical Theology Research Network in Oceania Seminar. Virtual seminar.

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  • Montero Orphanopoulos, C. (2024, June). Abuses of power in consecrated life: Various types of harm and accountability. Talk presented at the Jordan International Conference. Madrid, Spain.

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  • Dow, K. (2024, June). Images of God: Creative theology with people with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Talk presented at the Institute on Theology and Disability. Boston, MA.

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  • Kašparová, P. (2024, July). Art, spirituality, and healing. Talk presented at The Faraday Institute Summer Course. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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  • Kašparová, P. (2024, August). Look! This is my faith: Material rendering of imagery of 'divine' and 'faith' among practising Christian artists. Paper presented at the biennial European Conference on Science and Theology. Split, Croatia.

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  • Łazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, E. (2024, August). The soul and essence of religion: A theological critique of existing prayer scales. Paper presented at the biennial European Conference on Science and Theology. Split, Croatia.

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  • Waite, H. (2024, August). Navigating religious experiences in mental health: Clinicians’ perspectives and patient narratives. Paper presented at the biennial European Conference on Science and Theology. Split, Croatia.

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  • Waite, H. (2024, July). Exploring clinicians' perceptions of patients' religious experiences in illness: A qualitative inquiry. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society. Frankfurt, Germany.

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  • Waite, H. (2024, May). Navigating dual realities: A case study exploration of the “both-and” lens of understanding religious experiences in mania. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Academy of Religion. Palermo, Italy.

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  • Watanabe, S., Sharp, C. A., Catling, J. C., & Jones, S. H. (2024, February). How do Christian theologians perceive psychology? Preliminary insights from focus group interviews and workshop surveys. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Pre-Conference on Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. San Diego, CA.

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  • Watanabe, S., Sharp, C. A., & Catling, J. C. (2024, July). The other side of the coin: Theologians, psychologists, and collaboration. Talk presented at the annual conference of the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society. Frankfurt, Germany.

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  • Watanabe, S., Tanton, T., Waite, H., Łazarewicz-Wyrzykowska, E., Kašparová, P., Perez, J., & Daughton, A. (2024, August). When psychologists and theologians walk into a bar: Panel discussion on interdisciplinary collaborations and lessons learned from the Cross-Training Fellowship Program. Panel presentation at the biennial European Conference on Science and Theology. Split, Croatia.

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