Curriculum Vitae


Montgomery HallEducation

Ph.D. 1975 University of Chicago
M.A. 1973 University of Chicago
M.Div. 1971 Yale University
B.A. 1967 Abilene Christian University

Current Employment

  • Professor of Psychology and Religion
    • San Francisco Theological Seminary
    • Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

  • Editor: Pastoral Psychology, 1984--

Boards

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1991--
Center for the Family in Transition, Corte Madera, CA, 1984--1992

Books

Psychology of Religion: A Guide to Information Sources (with Donald Capps and Paul Ransohoff). Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1976.

The Divorcing Christian. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1983.

Understanding Religious Conversion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Articles

"Elton Trueblood's Concept of the Church," Mission 5 (1972): 264-271.

"Kierkegaard and Suffering," Restoration Quarterly 17 (1974): 99-106.

"Publication Trends in the Psychology of Religion to 1974," (with Donald Capps and Paul Ransohoff), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 15 (1976): 15-28.

"Religion and the Human Sciences: A Review Essay," Restoration Quarterly 19 (1976): 112-117.

"The Matrix of Meaning: Experience, Symbols, and Religion," Encounter 39 (1978): 19-32.

"Psychology/Religion: Social and Cultural Aspects of Integration," The Bulletin of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies 4 (1978): 32-34.

"Contradiction, Compromise, or Convergence? Reflections on Christianity and Psychology," Christian Scholar's Review 8 (1978): 126-129.

"Spiritual and Transpersonal Aspects of Altered States of Consciousness: A Symposium Report," Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 11 (1979): 59-74.

"Pastoral Psychology in the 1970's," Pacific Theological Review 12 (1979): 26-29.

"Recent Trends in Pastoral Psychology," Restoration Quarterly 22 (1979): 247-252.

"Theological Students Fellowship: A Quest to be Conservative and Contemporary," The Christian Century (February 6-13, 1980): 161-163.

"Ethics, Evolution, and the Psychology of William James," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 18 (1980: 50-57.

"Psychological Perspectives on Conversion," Pacific Theological Review 13 (1980): 21-26.

"Reflections on the Task of Integrating Psychology and Theology," Journal of Psychology and Theology 8 (1980): 64-71.

"Education and Conversion," in Christian Teaching: Studies in Honor of LeMoine G. Lewis, ed. Everett Ferguson, 237-255. Abilene, Texas: Abilene Christian University Press, 1981.

"Theological Studies on Conversion," in New Religions and Mental Health, ed. Herbert Richardson, 174-177. New York: Edward Mellen Press, 1981.

"Current Research on Religious Conversion," Religious Studies Review 8 (1982): 146-159.

"Evolution, Community, and the Strenuous Life: The Context of William James' Varieties," Encounter 43 (1982): 239-253.

"Charisma and Conversion," Pastoral Psychology 31 (1982): 96-108.

"Conscience," "Conversion," "Cult," "Repentance," and "Ritual," in The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology, eds. Alan Richardson and John Bowden, 119, 123-4, 137, 449, 509-510. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983.

"Ministry with the Divorcing," Pacific Theological Review 17 (1984): 15-24.

"Divorce Recovery," 20th Century Christian 45 (February, 1984): 22-25. [Reprinted in Up Reach 6 (May/June, 1984): 18-21.

"Conversion," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade, 73-79. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987.

"Reflections on Conflict in Israel and the West Bank," Pacific Theological Review 21 (1987): 48-56. [Reprinted in Pastoral Psychology 37 (1989): 192-201.]

"Conversion: Toward a Holistic Model of Religious Change," Pastoral Psychology 38 (1989): 47-63.

"Conversion," in Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling, ed. Rodney J. Hunter, 228-230. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

"Psychology of Conversion," in Handbook of Religious Conversion, eds. H. Newton Malony and Samuel Southard, 159-177. Birmingham, AL: Religious Education Press, 1992.

"Phenomenology of Conversion," (with Lawrence A. Reh) in Handbook of Religious Conversion, eds., H. Newton Malony and Samuel Southard, 229-258. Birmingham, AL: Religious Education Press, 1992.

"Congregational Care and Discipline in the San Francisco Church of Christ: A Case Study," Pastoral Psychology 43 (1995): 283-298.

“Bodies and Souls: A Response to H. Newton Malony.” International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 8 (4) (1998): 243-246.

"Converting: Stages of Religious Change," (with Charles E. Farhadian) in Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies, M. Darroll Bryant and Christopher Lamb, eds., London: Cassell Press, 1999. Pp. 23-34.

“Theories of Conversion: Understanding and Interpreting Religious Change.” 1999. Social Compass: International Review of Sociology of Religion, 46 (3): 259-271..

“Religious Conversion and Personality Change.” 1999. (with Raymond F. Paloutzian and James T. Richardson). Journal of Personality, 67 (6): 1047-1079.

"Conversion." 2002 (forthcoming) Dictionary of Pastoral Studies. London: SPCK [Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge]

"Cultural Contours of Conversion: Conflict and Confluence," 2002 (forthcoming) in The Anthropology of Conversion, edited by Morton Klass, Steve Glazier, and Andrew Buckser (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield).