ABSTRACT

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

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Mapping religion and psychology

part I|150 pages

Psychology of religion

part Section 1|44 pages

Empirical and cultural approaches

chapter 1|15 pages

Psychology of religion

An overview

chapter 2|13 pages

Psychology of religion

Empirical approaches

chapter 3|14 pages

The future is in the return

Back to cultural psychology of religion

part Section 2|70 pages

Perspectives on modernity and post-modernity

chapter 5|19 pages

What is our present?

An Antipodean perspective on the relationship between "psychology" and "religion"

chapter 6|16 pages

Mapping religion psychologically

Information theory as a corrective to modernism

chapter 7|17 pages

Post-structuralism and the psychology of religion

The challenge of critical psychology

part Section 3|34 pages

Psychology, religion, and gender studies

chapter 8|18 pages

Analysts, critics, and inclusivists

Feminist voices in the psychology of religion

chapter 9|14 pages

Male melancholia

Guilt, separation, and repressed rage

part II|172 pages

Religion in dialogue with psychology

part Section 1|64 pages

Theology and psychology in the West

chapter 11|21 pages

Shaping the future of religion and psychology

Feminist transformations in pastoral theology

chapter 12|25 pages

When is religion a mental disorder?

The disease of ritual

part Section 3|38 pages

Psychology "as" religion

chapter 16|22 pages

Diving into the depths

Reflections on psychology as a religion

chapter 17|14 pages

The death awareness movement

Psychology as religion?