Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain is a thorough and incisive survey of the current state of the relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field.
The issues addressed are:
-- The psychology -- theology dialogue in the West
-- psychological perspectives on non-Western religions
-- psychology, religion and gender studies
-- perspectives on modernity and post-modernity
-- psychology "as" religion
-- empirical, cultural and social scientific approaches
-- international perspectives
An essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology of religion, this collection systematically examines the whole range of ways in which the psychology/religion debate has developed.