Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain [Paperback]

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 PerspectivesA thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field, this book is an essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology and religion.Diane Jonte-Pace teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Santa Clara, California, and is the editor of Religious Studies Review. William Parsons is teaches Religious Studies at Rice University, Texas.'Will be of considerable value in orienting graduate students and researchers in a complex field and whetting their appetites for further exploration.' - Stephen Pattison, Journal of Contemporary ReligionNotes on contributors, Introduction: mapping religion and psychology, PART I: Psychology of religion, SECTION 1: Empirical and cultural approaches, 1. Psychology of religion: an overview, 2. Psychology of religion: empirical approaches, 3. The future is in the return: back to cultural psychology of religion, SECTION 2: Perspectives on modernity and post-modernity, 4. Does (the history of) religion and psychological studies have a subject?, 5. What is our present? An Antipodean perspective on the relationship between psychology and religion, 6. Mapping religion psychologically: information theory as a corrective to modernism, 7. PoslC)