Religion and Psychology is a thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. This is an essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology of religion. Issues addressed are: * The Psychology-Theology Dialogue * The Psychology-Comparativist Dialogue * Psychology, Religion and Gender Studies * Psychology "as" Religion * Social Scientific Approaches to the Psychology of Religion * The Empirical Approach * International Perspectives
Religion and Psychology is a thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. This is an essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology of religion. Issues addressed are: * The Psychology-Theology Dialogue * The Psychology-Comparativist Dialogue * Psychology, Religion and Gender Studies * Psychology "as" Religion * Social Scientific Approaches to the Psychology of Religion * The Empirical Approach * International Perspectives
Diane Jonte-Pace teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Santa Clara, California, and is the editor of Religious Studies Review. William Parsons is teaches Religious Studies at Rice University, Texas.
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Notes on contributors Introduction: mapping religion and psychology PART I: Psychology of religion SECTION 1: Empirical and cultural approaches 1. Psychology of religion: an overview 2. Psychology of religion: empirical approaches 3. The future is in the return: back to cultural psychology of religion SECTION 2: Perspectives on modernity and post-modernity 4. Does (the history of) religion and psychological studies have a subject? 5. What is our present? An Antipodean perspective on the relationship between "psychology" and "religion" 6. Mapping religion psychologically: information theory as a corrective to modernism 7. Post-structuralism and the psychology of religion: the challenge of critical psychology SECTION 3: Psychology religion and gender studies 8. Analysts critics and inclusivists: feminist voices in the psychology of religion 9. Male melancholia: guilt separation and repressed rage PART II: Religion in dialogue with psychology SECTION 1: Theology and psychology in the West 10. The past and possible future of religion and psychological studies 11. Shaping the future of religion and psychology: feminist transformations in pastoral theology 12. When is religion a mental disorder? The disease of ritual SECTION 2: Comparative studies: psychological perspectives on non-Western religions 13. Themes and debates in the psychology-comparativist dialogue 14. Re-membering a presence of mythological proportions: psychoanalysis and Hinduism 15. Experimental studies of meditation and consciousness SECTION 3: Psychology "as" religion 16. Diving into the depths: reflections on psychology as a religion 17. The death awareness movement: psychology as religion? Index
Notes on contributors Introduction: mapping religion and psychology PART I: Psychology of religion SECTION 1: Empirical and cultural approaches 1. Psychology of religion: an overview 2. Psychology of religion: empirical approaches 3. The future is in the return: back to cultural psychology of religion SECTION 2: Perspectives on modernity and post-modernity 4. Does (the history of) religion and psychological studies have a subject? 5. What is our present? An Antipodean perspective on the relationship between "psychology" and "religion" 6. Mapping religion psychologically: information theory as a corrective to modernism 7. Post-structuralism and the psychology of religion: the challenge of critical psychology SECTION 3: Psychology religion and gender studies 8. Analysts critics and inclusivists: feminist voices in the psychology of religion 9. Male melancholia: guilt separation and repressed rage PART II: Religion in dialogue with psychology SECTION 1: Theology and psychology in the West 10. The past and possible future of religion and psychological studies 11. Shaping the future of religion and psychology: feminist transformations in pastoral theology 12. When is religion a mental disorder? The disease of ritual SECTION 2: Comparative studies: psychological perspectives on non-Western religions 13. Themes and debates in the psychology-comparativist dialogue 14. Re-membering a presence of mythological proportions: psychoanalysis and Hinduism 15. Experimental studies of meditation and consciousness SECTION 3: Psychology "as" religion 16. Diving into the depths: reflections on psychology as a religion 17. The death awareness movement: psychology as religion? Index
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