Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion [electronic resource] Principles, Approaches, Applications / by Jacob A. v. van Belzen.
This book takes a bold stand: all psychology should be culturally sensitive psychology, especially when studying religious phenomena. It explains that culture is not simply to be conceived of as a variable that possibly influences behavior. Rather, it stresses that cultural patterns of acting, think...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010. |
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Contents:
- Introduction. 1. Introducing cultural psychology of religion
- Part I: Principles of cultural psychology of religion. 2.The need for a hermeneutical approach to the study of ‘religion’. 3. Cultural psychology of religion: perspectives, challenges, and possibilities. 4. The way out of contemporary debates on the object of the discipline
- Part II: Approaches to cultural psychology of religion. 5. Methodological issues: towards a new paradigm in psychology of religion. 6. When psychology turns to spirituality: recommendations for research. 7. The question of the specificity of religion: the contribution of psychology. 8. On the ‘Dialogical Self’ as a cultural psychological promise to the study of religiosity
- Part III: Applications of cultural psychology to religion. 9. Religion as embodiment: cultural-psychological concepts and methods in the study of conversion among ‘bevindelijke’ mystics. 10. Religion, culture and psychopathology: cultural-psychological reflections on a classic case of religious ‘murder’. 11. Psychopathology and religion: a psychobiographical analysis. 12. Religion and the social order: psychological factors in pillarization of society. Bibliography. Index.