The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality [Paperback]

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spiritualitycodifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Sections in this volume include:

- personality and social psychology factors and implications
- spiritual development and culture
- spiritual dialogue, prayer, and intention in Western mental health
- Eastern traditions and psychology
- physical health and spirituality
- positive psychology
- scientific advances and applications related to spiritual psychology

With chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology,The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spiritualityis an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. This overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.

Introduction by Lisa J. Miller

Part One: Epistemological and Ontological Assumptions in History and Culture

1. History and Current State of Research on Psychology of Religion
Ralph W. Hood Jr.

2. Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations
James M. Nelson and Brent Slife

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

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

5. Complementarities in Physics and Psychology
C. Edward Richards

Part Two: PlÃÝ