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as a fruitful topic for empirical study. In 
addition to the work reviewed in this chap -
ter, a leading textbook in the psychology of 
religion includes a chapter on personality 
processes in its newest edition (Paloutzian, 
2017). Although personality psychology has 
made admirable advances since Allport’s 
(1955) lament about our ignorance regard -
ing religiousness, we still know considerably 
less about this domain of human function -
ing than we might wish. Continued dialogue 
and collaboration between personality psy -
chologists who specialize in religion and our 
colleagues in evolutionary biology, neurosci -
ence, philosophy, anthropology, and cogni -
tive science will promote Allport’s vision for 
a psychology of personality that takes seri -
ously the religious and spiritual dimensions 
of understanding the whole person.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Preparation of this chapter was funded, in part, 
by generous grants from the John Templeton 
Foundation (ID Nos. 57634 and 51914).
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