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Papers

(The median citation count of Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv fuer Religionspsychologi is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
“Many are the plans”: An analysis of goals described by youth ministry leaders	13
Unpackaging gender differences in justifying morally debatable behaviors around the world: The role of personal religiosity and society’s socialization priorities for its children	9
The mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and god image among Turkish Muslims	8
The Multidimensional Religious Ideology scale	6
Longitudinal associations for right-wing authoritarianism, social justice, and compassion among seminary students	6
Experiences of meaning in life in urban and rural Zambia	5
Spiritual trauma as a manifestation of religious and spiritual struggles in female victims of sexual abuse in adolescence or young adulthood in the Catholic Church in Poland	5
The past, present, and future of research on religious and spiritual development in adolescence, young adulthood, and beyond	5
The experience of, and beliefs about, divine grace in mainline protestant Christianity: A consensual qualitative approach	5
Profile of scientific production on religiosity and spirituality in coping with childhood cancer	4
Exploring the relationship between church worship, social bonding and moral values	4
Religion as a natural laboratory for understanding human behavior	4
Unfolding spiritual understanding through artistic creation: Findings of the Laboratory of Art and Spirituality	4
Strengthening the resilience of Myanmar children studying in monastic schools	3
Bishri Hafi Effect: How spirituality might stall off the addiction recovery	3
How religious identity affects life satisfaction of Afghan immigrants in Turkey: The role of social support and discrimination	3
Reflections of modernization in religious worldviews of Israeli religious minority students	2
If not belief in God, then what? Identifying factors that contribute to well-being among Polish nonbelievers	2
Spirituality as a key asset in promoting positive youth development: Advances in research and practice	2
Interfaith prejudice in the United States: The role of social identity complexity	2
Religious coping in parenting a child with Down syndrome: A case study	2
Associations between religion and suicidality for LGBTQ individuals: A systematic review	2
A narrative evaluation of a faith-based aftercare program for youth involved in the juvenile justice system	2
The moderating function of sexual sanctification on the relation between sexual and relationship satisfaction: A registered report	2
Psychology of mysticism: Toward a layered hierarchy model	2

Psychometric evaluation of the bottom-up developed Experiencing Grace Scale	1
The dynamic uncertainty of narrative, place, and practice in spiritual experience: Clues from the phenomenology of walking a labyrinth	1
An initial investigation of the role of death concerns in evaluations of metaphoric language about God	1
Who would Iranian Muslims help? Religious dimensions and moral foundations as predictors	1
Religiosity/spirituality and mental health: Evidence of curvilinear relationships in a sample of religious people, spirituals, atheists, and agnostics	1
The Dimensions of Spirituality Inventory	1
Prime and punishment: Effect of religious priming and group membership on prosocial behavior	1
Meaning in life in adolescents with developmental trauma: A qualitative study	1
What makes someone a spiritual exemplar to another?	1
Differences in religious and spiritual practice variables between Canadian counselors and psychologists	1
Measuring spiritual, religious, and existential constructs in children: A systematic review of instruments and measurement properties	0
Acknowledgement of Ad Hoc Reviewers	0
Spiritual therapy’s impact on death anxiety in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis	0
Cultural dimensions of nonsuicidal self-injury: A Malaysian perspective	0
A Comparative Model of Mysticism: Cognitive Neuroscience, Phenomenal Experiences, and Noetic Accounts	0
Sanctification of marriage, religious coping and marital adjustment of Iranian couples	0
Belief in Jinn Possession Scale: Development and validation	0
Ritual responses to environmental apocalypse in activist communities	0
Contributions of Muslim medieval scholars to psychology	0
How religiosity and spirituality influences the ecologically conscious consumer psychology of Christians, the non-religious, and atheists in the United States	0
Religious worship online: A qualitative study of two Sunday virtual services	0
The 2023 Groningen conference: The Netherlands as a symbolic location for the conference of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion	0
Qualitatively exploring repentance processes, antecedents, motivations, resources, and outcomes in Latter-day Saints	0
Corrigendum to Profile of scientific production on religiosity and spirituality in coping with childhood cancer	0
Religious deconversion in adolescence and young adulthood: A literature review	0
Does childhood religiosity enhance learning motivation? Testing the role of Islamic religiosity using moderated mediation model	0
Acknowledgement of Ad Hoc Reviewers	0
The double-edged sword of sexual sanctification: Moderation of the associations between sexual dysfunctions and sexual and psychological well-being	0
Global perceptions of religious and non-religious scientists	0
Epilepsy and religiosity: A historical overview	0
Patients at risk of suicide and their meaning in life experiences	0
Fear of COVID-19, death depression and death anxiety: Religious coping as a mediator	0
Intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation as a moderator of key predictors of romantic relationship commitment	0
Wisdom partially mediates the relationship between spirituality and eudaimonic well-being	0
Effects of listening to Quran recitation on anxiety reduction in elective surgeries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	0
“I am growing, but I don’t give up”: Spiritual experiences of older adults in Ghana	0
Religiosity and moral judgment: Moderating role of moral internalization and moral competence	0
What is religious fundamentalism? A literature review	0
Humility among seminarian women: A qualitative study	0
Allah has told us everything: An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring the lived experiences of British Muslims	0
Can religion motivate people to blow the whistle?	0
Psychology of religion and spirituality in Jewish contexts: A synthetic review	0
Toward understanding developmental complexities of religiously minoritized youth	0
Yawning in the face of God: Religious boredom as a form of activism	0
A comprehensive literature review of Islam-oriented scales on religiosity, spirituality, and morality	0
Religious coping and young adult’s mental well-being during Covid-19: Testing a double moderated mediation model	0
Christian internalization of a healthy lifestyle: A theoretical analysis	0
Dialectical thinking in contemporary spirituality: Reconciling contradictory beliefs through metamodern oscillations between two ways of thinking	0
The experiences of spiritual enlightenment: A mixed-method study of the development of a Spiritual Enlightenment Experience Scale	0
Religious identity, religious practice, and religious beliefs across countries and world regions	0

The causal effects of religious service attendance on prosocial behaviours in New Zealand: A national longitudinal study	0
Indonesian students’ religiousness, comfort, and anger toward God during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Between privilege and exclusion: Orthodox church singers coping with the Covid-19 lockdown	0