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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|150 pages
Psychology of religion
part Section 1|44 pages
Empirical and cultural approaches
part Section 2|70 pages
Perspectives on modernity and post-modernity
chapter 5|19 pages
What is our present?
chapter 7|17 pages
Post-structuralism and the psychology of religion
part Section 3|34 pages
Psychology, religion, and gender studies
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
part Section 2|68 pages
Comparative studies
part Section 3|38 pages
Psychology "as" religion