Eric L. Johnson and Bruce Boekel, professors of psychology and English respectively at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota, review four recent books on the psychology of religion: Ralph W.Hood, Jr., Bernard Spilka, Bruce Hunsberger, and Richard Gorsuch, The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach , 2nd ed. (New York : Guilford, 1996); Kenneth Paragament, The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice (New York: Guilford, 1997); Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and Michael Argyle, The Psychology of Religious Behavior, Belief and Experience (London: Routledge, 1997); Vernon Ruland, Sacred Lies and Silences: A Psychology of Religious Disguise (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1994).