Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain

by Jonte-Pace,Diane

• ISBN13: 9780415206174
• ISBN10: 0415206170
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With contributions from leading scholars in psychology, theology and social theory, an overview of the contemporary state of religion and psychological studies is constructed. Numerous approaches of religion including Jungian and psychoanalytic are explored along with topics such as mysticism, madness, post-modernity and theology. Concluding with an essay on psychology "as" religion, questions are posed about the cultural significance of popular spirituality literature and the death and dying movement.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	x
Introduction: mapping religion and psychology	1	(10)
William B. Parsons
Diane Jonte-Pace
PART I Psychology of religion	11	(150)
Empirical and cultural approaches	13	(2)
Psychology of religion: an overview	15	(15)
David M. Wulff
Psychology of religion: empirical approaches	30	(13)
Bernard Spilka
The future is in the return: back to cultural psychology of religion	43	(14)
Jacob A. Belzen
Perspectives on modernity and post-modernity	57	(2)
Does (the history of) religion and psychological studies have a subject?	59	(16)
Susan E. Henking
What is our present? An Antipodean Perspective on the relationship between ``psychology'' and ``religion''	75	(19)
Kathleen V. O'Connor
Mapping religion psychologically: information theory as a corrective to modernism	94	(16)
Volney P. Gay
Post-structuralism and the psychology of religion: the challenge of critical psychology	110	(17)
Jeremy R. Carrette
Psychology, religion, and gender studies	127	(2)
Analysts, critics, and inclusivists: feminist voices in the psychology of religion	129	(18)
Diane Jonte-Pace
Male melancholia: guilt, separation, and repressed rage	147	(14)
Donald Capps
PART II Religion in dialogue with psychology	161	(172)
Theology and psychology in the West	163	(2)
The past and possible future of religion and psychological studies	165	(16)
Don Browning
Shaping the future of religion and psychology: feminist transformations in pastoral theology	181	(21)
Bonnie J. Miller-Mclemore
When is religion a mental disorder? The disease of ritual	202	(25)
Luis O. Gomez
Comparative studies: psychological perspectives on non-Western religions	227	(2)
Themes and debates in the psychology-comparativist dialogue	229	(25)
William B. Parsons
Re-membering a presence of mythological proportions: psychoanalysis and Hinduism	254	(26)
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Experimental studies of meditation and consciousness	280	(15)
Jonathan Shear
Psychology ``as'' religion	295	(2)
Diving into the depths: reflections on psychology as a religion	297	(22)
G. William Barnard
The death awareness movement: psychology as religion?	319	(14)
Lucy Bregman
Index	333