Volume 33 of Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion brings together an open section and two special sections that illuminate new vistas in the study of religious and non-religious belief. Special section 1 examines the historical roots of religious practice emerging from Greater Khurāsān – a historical ‘cross-road’ for many world religions. Special section 2 initiates a paradigm shift in study of religious and non-religious belief in relation to children, insisting upon foregrounding children’s narratives. Both special sections explore under-researched areas, underlining the significance of historical and contextual approaches. At an intrinsic level the volume interrogates the power dynamics that determine why particular voices and approaches are prioritised in the study of religious and non-religious belief, and why others remain under- or mis-heard.

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Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Special Section 1: Open Section Secularization and Religiosity: A Computational Psychological Perspective  Francesco Rigoli Prosocial Behavior, Spirituality, Religiousness, and Purpose in Life: A Study among a National Sample of Argentinians  Daniel Travis, Hernán Furman and Hugo Simkin A Qualitative Research on the Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Background of Joining and Leaving Radical Religious Groups  İbrahim Yıldırım and Sevde Düzgüner The Psychological Type Profile of Humanists UK: Not Just the Mirror Image of Believers  Gareth Longden and Mandy Robbins The Francis Burnout Inventory: Testing the Balanced Affect Model Among Methodist Circuit Ministers In Great Britain  Leslie J. Francis, Andrew Village and John M. Haley Psychological Type Profile of Methodist Ministers in Britain: Contributing to the Atlas of Clergy Type Tables  Leslie J. Francis, John M. Haley and Ursula McKenna Psychological Type and Images of God  Leslie J. Francis, Ursula McKenna, Gillian L. Hall and Douglas S. Hall The Other Side of the Coin: Religious Fundamentalism and Positive Mental Health Outcomes  Russell E. Phillips III and Michael B. Kitchens Special Section 2: The Socio-historical Study of Religion in Greater Khurāsān Introduction: A Beginning to the Socio-Historical Study of Religion in Greater Khurāsān  Morteza Daneshyar, Vali Abdi and Abbas Aghdassi Xwaršēd Nigerišn and Its Zoroastrian Burial Customs in Greater Khurāsān  Mehdi Mousavinia and Hassan Basafa Jewish and Christian Diaspora in Greater Khurāsān during the First Three Centuries AH  Mohsen Sharfaei and Vali Abdi Karrāmīyya Relations with Other Islamic Sects in the Third to Sixth Centuries AH: A Glance on Its Relationship with Sufism  Hamidreza Sanaei and Robabeh Jafarpour Sufi’s Book-Washing in Abū Saʿīd Abū al-Khayr’s Ḥālāt va Sukhanān and Asrār al-Tawḥīd  Mahmood Zeraatpisheh and Atefeh Ranjbardarestani Connecting “Liminal” Spaces – Jewish Trade Networks in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Khurāsān  Ariane Sadjed Considerations on the Epistemological Approach of Mīrzā Mahdī Iṣfahānī in al-Abwāb al-Hudā  Atefeh Ranjbardarestani and Mohammad Fazlhashemi The Local Roots of Dr. Shariati’s Opposition to Philosophy: A Historical Approach  Abdolrahim Ghanava Between Greater Khurāsān and the Khurāsān Province: The Continuity of Greater Khurāsān in the Social Identity of Iranian Sunnīs in Khurāsān Province  Hessam Habibi Doroh Religion or Belief and the Child Introduction: Religion or Belief and the Child  Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Alison Halford 25 Years of Approval Seeking in the US: The IRB and Ethnographic Protocols for Religious Studies Work with Child Consultants  Susan B. Ridgely Discovery, Construction, Disclosure: Some Factors in the Developing Religious Identity of Children and Young People from Diverse Faith Backgrounds  Eleanor Nesbitt and Elisabeth Arweck Children, Religion and Social Capital: Bonding and Bridging in Multi-faith Urban Neighbourhoods  Greg Smith Index