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100 1 _aBelzen, Jacob A.
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245 1 0 _aTowards Cultural Psychology of Religion
_h[electronic resource] :
_bPrinciples, Approaches, Applications /
_cby Jacob A. Belzen.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2010.
300 _aXIV, 282 p.
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505 0 _aIntroduction. 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.
520 _aThis 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 themselves within different cultural conditions. By consequence, cultural psychology does not start from Western psychological constructs, testing for their presence in other cultures, but from human acts and activities in specific cultures, analyzing them in a hermeneutical way. Like cultural psychology, psychology of religion currently enjoys more and more interest and rapid growth. But the two fields have remained rather unconnected in the recent past. Psychological research on religion has been pursued from a number of perspectives, among which a cultural psychological one has not yet become prominent. As religions, however conceptualized, are cultural entities of major importance, cultural psychology seems a natural ally to research on religion. Containing a number of studies, both theoretical and empirical, this volume takes a step towards a rapprochement of cultural psychology and psychology of religion. Having received several international awards and distinctions, Jacob A. Belzen is one of Europe’s best-known psychologists of religion. As he has obtained doctorates in social science, history, philosophy and sciences of religion, his numerous publications are characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach. He is a full professor at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He worked on this book while he was a visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (UK).
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 0 _aReligion (General).
650 1 4 _aPsychology.
650 2 4 _aPsychology, general.
650 2 4 _aReligious Studies.
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