Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul A Historical Entanglement /

• Main Author: Richards, Graham (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Library of the History of Psychological Theories
• Subjects: Psychology.; Religion.; Religion > Philosophy.; History of Psychology.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.

Neither a book about the psychology of spirituality nor America’s ongoing turf wars between religion and science, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul takes to task many of the presumed relationships between the two—from sharing common concerns to diametrically hostile opposites—to analy...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• The Nature of the Problem
• Mythos and Logos
• Psychology's Religious Roots
• Psychology of Religion
• A Boundary Problem
• The Authenticity of Religious Experience
• Religion and Psychotherapy
• The Problem of Prayer
• Religion and Personality
• The Theism Question
• Psychology and Non-Christian Religions
• Religion and Psychological Theory
• Conclusions, Hypotheses, Suggestions and a Stab at a Personal 'Position Statement'
• Bibliography.