The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality

by Miller, Lisa J.

• ISBN13: 9780190905538
• ISBN10: 0190905530
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780190905545
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-02-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Postmaterial spiritual psychology posits that consciousness can contribute to the unfolding of material events and that the human brain can detect broad, non-material communications. In this regard, this emerging field of postmaterial psychology marks a stark departure from psychology's traditional assumptions about materialism, making this text particularly attractive to the current generation of students in psychology and related health and wellness disciplines. For the most part, Gen Z is implicitly postmaterialist.

This updated edition of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality codifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Lisa J. Miller has gathered together a group of ground-breaking scholars to showcase their work of many decades that has come further to fruition in the past ten years with the collective momentum of a spiritual renaissance in psychological science. Relevant to both current university students and established scientists and practitioners ready for new models and direction, the chapters trace with epistemological clarity the core questions of psychological science: How does the brain really work? How might experimental design reveal that all people truly are connected at the level of consciousness, both during our lives and after our deaths? Are there multiple pathways to awakening a spiritual reality? How can we pursue growth and spiritual transformation?

With new and updated chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology, the Handbook is an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. Highlighting fresh ideas and supporting science, this overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.

Author Biography

Lisa J. Miller, Ph.D., is a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College at Columbia University and the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and The Awakened Brain. She is the Founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League research
institute and place of graduate study in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been supported by millions of dollars in grants and is published in more than one
hundred peer-reviewed journal articles, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, JAMA-Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Miller is Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, a
Founding Associate Editor of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology, Religion and Spirituality.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The History and Current Status of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Ralph W. Hood, Jr.

Chapter 2: Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations
James M. Nelson and Brent D. Slife

Chapter 3: Parameters and Limitations of Current Conceptualizations
Fraser N. Watts

Chapter 4: Progress in Physics and Psychological Science Affects the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Everett L. Worthington Jr.

Chapter 5: Spiritual Development during Childhood and Adolescence
Chris J. Boyatzis

Chapter 6: Questions Left Unaddressed by Religious Familism: Are Religiousness and Spirituality Relevant to Non-traditional Families?
Annette Mahoney and Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso

Chapter 7: Models of Spiritual and Transpersonal Development
Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Linda Riebel, and Chad Johnson

Chapter 8: Awakening Education: Nurturing Spirituality in K-12 School Culture
Amy L. Chapman, Lauren Foley, Jen Hebda Halliday, Karen Barth, and Lisa Miller

Chapter 9: Virtues in Positive Psychology and the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality:
Existing Overlap and Promising Possibilities
Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Richard G. Cowden, Edward B. Davis, and Julie J. Exline

Chapter 10: Personality, Spirituality, and Religion
Joshua A. Wilt, Julie J. Exline, and Eric D. Rose

Chapter 11: The Numinous Motivation Inventory (NMI): A Second-generation Measure of Spirituality
Ralph L. Piedmont

Chapter 12: Religion, Altruism, and Prosocial Behavior: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches
Elizabeth Midlarsky and Tanya Malik

Chapter 13: Spiritually Sensitive Psychotherapy: An Impending Paradigm Shift in Theory and Practice
Len Sperry

Chapter 14: Journey From a Materialist to a Postmaterialist Perspective-A Portrait
Len Sperry

Chapter 15: Honoring Religious Diversity and Universal Spirituality in Psychotherapy
P. Scott Richards

Chapter 16: Counseling and Psychotherapy Within and Across Faith Traditions
Mark R. McMinn, Megan Anna Neff, Kimberly N. Snow, and Nicholas Schollars

Chapter 17: Psychoanalysis, Psi Phenomena, and Spiritual Space: Common Ground
Ruth Rosenbaum

Chapter 18: Spiritual Aspects of Jungian Analytical Psychology: Individuation, Jung's Psychological Equivalent of a Spiritual Journey
Joseph P. Wagenseller

Chapter 19: Psychology, Meditation and the Brain Across Contemplative Traditions
Brendan D. Kelly

Chapter 20: Translation of Eastern Meditative Disciplines into Western Psychotherapy
Randye J. Semple and Sean P. Hatt

Chapter 21: Eastern Traditions, Consciousness, and Spirituality
Kartikeya C. Patel

Chapter 22: The Spirituality-Physical Health Linkage: The Key Roles of Emotions
Crystal L. Park, Jeanne M. Slattery, and Tingyi Cao

Chapter 23: Spirituality, Religion, Health, and Professional Psychology
Thomas G. Plante

Chapter 24: Spirituality and Recovery From Psychosis and Serious Mental Disorders
David Lukoff and Will Hall

Chapter 25: Transformation of Brain Function Associated With Spiritual Experience
Andrew B. Newberg

Chapter 26: Neuroimaging and Spiritual Practice
Mario Beauregard

Chapter 27: Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality
Bruce Greyson

Chapter 28: Nonlocal Consciousness and the Anthropology of Religions and Spiritual Practices
Stephan A. Schwartz

Chapter 29: Consciousness, Spirituality, and Postmaterialist Science: An Experimental and Experiential Approach
Gary E. Schwartz

Chapter 30: A Post-Materialist Human Science and Its Implications for Spiritual activism
Amit Goswami

Chapter 31: Beyond Ancient and Modern Superstitions
Dean Radin

Chapter 32: Nonlocality, Intention, and Observer Effects in Healing Studies: Laying a Foundation for the Future
Stephan Schwartz and Larry Dossey

Chapter 33: The Neuroscience of Savant Syndrome, Enlightenment, and Other Extraordinary States
Diane Hennacy Powell

Index