| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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, thinking and experiencing are created, adopted and promulgated by a number of individuals jointly. As human subjectivity is different in different cultures, cultural psychology is not interested in comparatively investigating how experiences and behavior, attitudes and social relationships present themse. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Psychology, Religious.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Religion and Psychology.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Religion.
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RELIGION -- Psychology of Religion.
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Ethnopsychology. (OCoLC)fst00916198
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Psychology, Religious. (OCoLC)fst01081630
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Volkenpsychologie.
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Godsdienstpsychologie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Belzen, Jacob A. Towards cultural psychology of religion. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010 9789048134908 (OCoLC)436266493 |
| ISBN |
9789048134915 (electronic bk.) |
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9048134919 (electronic bk.) |
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