Bonding with God: Attachment Science and the Psychology of Faith Victor Counted, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology, Regent University; Faculty Affiliate, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University   For most of its history, the scientific study of religion has measured what people believe. Surveys ask whether respondents affirm the existence of God, how literally they read scripture, how strongly they endorse a set of doctrinal propositions. Belief, rendered as assent to content, became the unit of analysis. And yet anyone who has sat with a grieving widow who still talks to God each morning, or watched a congregation grieve with a member through illness, knows that this measurement misses something central. Faith, as it is actually lived, is far less a matter of what people hold to be true