James Meredith Day, Ph.D.
Professeur, Universite catholique de Louvain, UCL
Web:
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-jmday.html
Psychological Science Research Institute,
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Place Cardinal Mercier 10
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Email:
james.day@uclouvain.be
Phone: xx32.10.479304 or xx32.486.141323
James is Professor of Human Development and the Psychology of
Religion at the Universite catholique de Louvain, Psychological Science
Research Institute and Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and a licensed, practicing, clinical and
consulting psychologist at PsyGroup, in Brussels.
James is also the Very Distinguished Visiting Professor in the
University of Uppsala, Sweden, Research Fellow in the Center on
Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the City
University of New York (CUNY), Adjunct Professor in the University of
New Hampshire, Fellow of the German Science Foundation Research Group in
Moral Psychology, co-founder of the European Society for Research in
Adult Development, and Co-Director of the Louvain-Harvard Project in
Cognitive Complexity and Religious Cognition, served for years as
Associate Editor of the Archive for the Psychology of Religion: The
Journal of the International Association of the Psychology of Religion,
Scientific Consultant to the Poetics of Selfhood Project, and is a
reviewer for many scholarly publications. James co-founded the
Inter-Spiritualties Project at the University of Louvain, Belgium’s
first, university-based, project devoted to inter-religious dialogue.
James’s work has been widely cited as a formative influence in
narrative psychology, moral psychology, and in the psychology of
religion. His work has been supported by The National Science Foundation
of the USA, The National Science Foundation of Belgium, the National
Science Foundation of Portugal, and Metanexus Institute of the John
Templeton Foundation. He has won teaching awards at Louvain, and the
Award for Contributions to Ethics in the Education of Counselors and
Psychologists from the American Counseling Association.
Education:
James studied comparative religion
at Oberlin where his senior honors seminar paper was “Images of Women in
the Literature of Soren Kierkegaard”, was a visiting scholar at
Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York while
still an undergraduate, then did degrees in psychology at Harvard
University, and the APA doctoral program in counseling-professional
psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Later he pursued an
advanced degree in theology at Cambridge University.
Published Work:
James’s published work has appeared in many books including the Oxford
Handbook of Adult Development and Learning, The Development and
Structure of Conscience, Religious Voices in Self-Narratives: Making
Sense of Life in Times of Transition, The Postconventional Personality,
Social Constructionism and Theology, Constructs of Meaning and Religious
Transformation: Current issues in the psychology of religion,
Heremeneutical Approaches in the Psychology of Religion, and many others.
Journals in which his articles have appeared include American
Psychologist, Behavioral Development Bulletin, Estudios de Psicología,
Human Development, Journal of Adult Development, Journal of
Constructivist Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of
Counseling and Development, Journal of Education, International Journal
for the Psychology of Religion, Journal for Moral Education, Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Sex Research, Journal of
Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Theoria et Educacion,Theory and
Psychology, and World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.
James’ applied work has included supervision of school
psychologists, founding and leading Belgium’s first inter-religious
dialogue project at Louvain, and radio and television broadcasts.
James is the father of three living children: Julia, Jonathan, and Jacob, and lives in Brussels, Belgium.
James Meredith Day, Ph.D. Books
For more information and additional publications:
- http://uclouvain.academia.edu/JamesMDay
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-meredith-day-6807223
- https://www.facebook.com/james.meredith.day
- http://www.uclouvain.be/en-jmday.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Meredith_Day
- http://www.psygroup.be/en/