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The IAPR organizes conferences on a regular basis. The next International Psychology of Religion Conference is scheduled for August 23rd to 27th 2009 and will be held at Vienna, Austria.
For more information on the IAPR 2009 Congress see here: http://www.iapr.at.vu/.
Since 1914 the IAPR publishes the Archiv für Religionspsychologie/Archive for the Psychology of Religion. It is a scholarly, trilingual (English, French and German) journal; most articles are in English language. The journal contains articles from a broad range of perspectives around the psychology of religion and is published on a regular basis.
For many years the journal was published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen, Germany. From volume 26 (2004) on the journal is published by Brill in Leiden, The Netherlands. From 2007 on the IAPR regular membership fee includes a subscription to the Archiv. Good submissions for the journal are very welcome. For more details see here: http://www.brill.nl/arp.
At present the editors of the Archiv are:
- Heinz Streib (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
- James M. Day (Catholic University of Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium)
- Ralph W. Hood Jr. (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)
The Editorial Board consists of:
- Mario Aletti (University of Milan, Italy)
- Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi (University of Haifa, Israel)
- Jacob A. Belzen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Valerie DeMarinis (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
- Robert A. Emmons (University of California at Davis (CA), USA)
- Nils G. Holm (Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland)
- Dirk Hutsebaut (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Jean-Marie Jaspard (Catholic University of Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium)
- James W. Jones (Rutgers University, New Brunswick (NJ), USA)
- Kate M. Loewenthal (University of London, UK)
- William W. Meissner (Boston College, Boston (MA), USA)
- Sebastian Murken (University of Trier, Germany)
- Raymond F. Paloutzian (Westmont College (CA), USA)
- Crystal Park (University of Connecticut (CT), USA)
- Vassilis Saroglou (Catholic University of Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium)
- Marinus H. F. van Uden (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
- David W. Wulff (Wheaton College, Norton (MA), USA)
The IAPR Godin Prize for the Scientific Psychology of Religion
The origin of the Godin Prize is a gift by Prof. Gregory Zilboorg to Prof. André Godin, who was professor of psychology of religion at the Lumen Vitae Institute in Brussels, on March 15, 1956 in order to develop studies in the psychology of religion. The name of the prize on that moment was the Quinquennial Prize for the Scientific Psychology of Religion. After the death of Prof. Godin on the 2nd of June 1997, the committee decided to change the name of the prize in the Godin Prize in honor of this distinguished man.
Till now the Godin Prize has been awarded seven times. The previous recipients of the prize and the works for which they were honored are:
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1967 - J.P. Deconchy for "Structure génétique de l’idée de Dieu chez des catholiques français. Garçons et filles de 8 à 16 ans." |
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1971 - J.M. Jaspard and A. Dumoulin for "Les médiations religieuses dans l’univers de l’enfant." |
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1976 - L. Rulla, Fr. Imoda and J. Ridick for "Structure psychologique et vocation." |
| 4. |
1986 - M.J. Lerner for "The belief in a just world. A fundamental delusion." |
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1991 - D. Wulff for "Psychology of religion. Classic and contemporary views." |
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1998 - S. Murken for "Gottesbeziehung und psychische Gesundheit. Die Entwicklung eines Modells und seine empirische Überprüfung." |
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2006 - V. Saroglou for the entire body of his research and publications in many areas of personality and social psychology of religion (see: list of publications). |
The Godin Prize, which amounts to € 1000, is now incorporated in the IAPR and will be awarded at the IAPR's congresses. The prize will preferably be given to young researchers - for a monography or five articles (published or accepted) focused on a central topic of research in the field of the psychology of religion published in the last five years before the congress.
The next Godin Prize will be awarded at the 2009 conference of the IAPR, which will take place in Vienna-Austria. Suggestions for a candidate are most welcome (self-nomination possible). Applications should include 5 copies of the book or all five articles (in case they are not published yet, please add letter of acceptance) and should be sent to Dirk Hutsebaut.
In case the prize is not attributed in 2009 at the Vienna conference, the prize will be announced again for the then next conference of the IAPR.
The members of the present jury are: Nils Holm from Åbo (Finland) Halina Grzymala from Jagellonian University Krakow (Poland), Dirk Hutsebaut from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Ray Paloutzian, Editor of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion (USA).
For further information on the Godin Prize please contact Dirk Hutsebaut.
The IAPR's e-mail newsletters inform the Association's members regularly on its latests developments and activities like conferences, publications etc. If you have any information that may be of interest for the members of the Association, please send them to Herman Westerink who currently compiles the newsletter.
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