Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Manuscript Invitation -- Religion, Psychological Well-being, and Personality: A Study Among Undergraduate Students in Canada (Leslie J. Francis, Peter R. Hills, Eduard Schludermann, and Shirin Schludermann) -- Young Catholics and Pro-Life Thinking: How Catholic College Students View the Issues of Abortion, Euthanasia, and Capital Punishment (Michael J. Maher, Linda M. Sever, and Shaun Pichler) -- A Five-Factor Analysis of Spirituality in Young Adults: Preliminary Evidence (Robert J. Cramer, Michael P. Griffin, and David V. Powers) -- Contemporary Christian Serpent Handlers and the New Paradigm for the Psychology of Religion (Ralph W. Hood Jr. and W. Paul Williamson) -- Mechanisms in the Relation Between Religion and Health with Emphasis on Cardiovascular Reactivity to Stress (Kevin S. Masters) -- "So Firm a Foundation": What the Comparative Study of Religion Offers Positive Psychology (Lauren E. Maltby and Peter C. Hill) -- Examining the "Spill-Over" Effect of Religiosity on Civic Involvement and Efficacy (H. Lovell Smith and Mark Peyrot) -- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) Scale: Short Form (Ralph L. Piedmont, M. Christine Kennedy, Martin F. Sherman, Nancy C. Sherman, and Joseph E. G. Williams) -- Women's Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Religion: A Critical Review of the Literature (Chris J. Boyatzis and Katherine B. Quinlan) -- SPECIAL SECTION ADOLESCENT SPIRITUALITY -- Introduction to the Special Section of Research in the Social Scientifi c Study of Religion (Chris J. Boyatzis and Priscilla Hambrick-Dixon) -- Health Problems of Children and the Moral Resolve of Adults (Philip Alcabes) -- Substance Use versus Anxiety in Adolescents: Are Some Disorders More Spiritual than Others? (Alethea Desrosiers and Lisa Miller).

A Developmental-Ecological Perspective on the Role of Spirituality in the Development of Meaningfulness in Adolescent Boys (Gess LeBlanc) -- Authors' Biographies -- Manuscript Reviewers -- Subject Index -- Author Index.