Diane Jonte-Pace, William B. Parsons

Religion and Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

Mapping the Terrain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134625345
• Artikelnr.: 47888241

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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