NEICE Research Interests
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The Institute ceased its activity and the charity was dissolved at the end of April 2013
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NEICE Research Interests
NEICE 1981 – 2013
ARCHIVE WEBSITE
The Institute ceased its activity and the charity was dissolved at the end of April 2013
This is a copy of the NEICE website active at that date
Psychology of Religion and Religious Commitment
Some Relevant Publications
Leslie J Francis and Carolyn Wilcox, ‘Personality, Prayer and Church Attendance Among 16- to 18-year-old Girls in England’, Journal of Social Psychology, 134, 1994
Leslie J Francis and Carolyn Wilcox, ‘Religion and Gender Orientation’, Personality and Individual Differences, 20, 1996
Leslie J Francis and Jeff Astley, ‘The Quest for the Psychological Jesus: influences of personality on images of Jesus’, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 16, 1997
Leslie J Francis and Jeff Astley, ‘Personality and Prayer among Adult Churchgoers: a replication’, Social Behavior and Personality, 24, 1996
Carolyn Wilcox and Leslie J Francis, ‘Beyond Gender Stereotyping: examining the validity of the Bem Sex Role Inventory among 16- to 19-year-old females in England’, Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 1997
Carolyn Wilcox and Leslie J Francis, ‘Personality and Religion among A level Religious Studies Students’, The International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, 1, 1997
Leslie J Francis and Carolyn Wilcox, ‘Religiosity and Femininity: do women really hold a more positive attitude toward Christianity?’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 37, 1998
Leslie J Francis and Carolyn Wilcox, ‘Personality and Sex Role Orientation among 17-19 Year Old Females in England’, The Irish Journal of Psychology, 20, 1999
Leslie J Francis, Susan H Jones and Carolyn Wilcox, ‘Religiosity and happiness: during adolescence, young adulthood and later life’, Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 19, 2000
Leslie J Francis and Jeff Astley (eds), Psychological Perspectives on Prayer: a reader, Gracewing , 2000
More information…
Jeff Astley, ‘From Religion to Science: The Positive Contribution of Religious Education to Scientific Understanding’, in Leslie J Francis, Jeff Astley and Mandy Robbins (eds), The Fourth R for the Third Millennium: Education in Religion and Values for the Global Future, Veritas, 2001
Jeff Astley and Leslie J Francis, ‘Christian Nurture and Critical Openness: an empirical investigation among undergraduates’, Religious Education, 97, 2002
Jeff Astley, ‘The Science and Religion Interface within Young People’s Attitudes and Beliefs’, in Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins and Jeff Astley (eds), Religion, Education and Adolescence: International Empirical Perspectives, University of Wales Press, 2005
Jeff Astley, ‘Public and Personal Peace in Life, Religion and Education: An Exercise in Ordinary Theology’, in Jeff Astley, Leslie J Francis and Mandy Robbins (eds), Peace or Violence: The Ends of Religion and Education? , University of Wales Press, 2007
Jeff Astley, ‘Giving Voice to the Ordinary: Theological Listening and the Mother Tongue’, in Natalie K. Watson and Stephen Burns (eds), Exchanges of Grace: Essays in Honour of Ann Loades (London: SCM Press, 2008)
Jeff Astley, ‘Evolution and Evil: The Difference Darwinism Makes in Theology and Spirituality’, in Stephen C. Barton and David Wilkinson (eds), Reading Genesis After Darwin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Emyr Williams, Leslie J. Francis, Jeff Astley and Mandy Robbins, ‘Research Brief: The Relationship Between Paranormal Beliefs and Attitude Towards Theistic Beliefs’, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 73.1, 894, 2009
Jeff Astley and Leslie J. Francis, ‘Young Vocation to Ordained Ministry: A Qualitative Study’, Practical Theology, 2, 2, 2009
Jeff Astley, ‘The Psychology of Faith Development’, in Marian de Souza, Leslie J. Francis, James O’Higgins-Norman and Daniel G. Scott (eds), International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing, Part One (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2009)
Jeff Astley, ‘Forms of Faith and Forms of Communication’, in John Sullivan (ed), Communicating Faith (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2011)
Jeff Astley and Leslie J. Francis (eds), Exploring Ordinary Theology: Everyday Christian Believing and the Church (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013)
See also Books, Articles, essays and reports and Research theses.
Current Projects
- science, religion and attitudes in adolescence