Spirituality, Culture and Mental Health: Prospects and Risks for Contemporary Psychology of Religion
This paper asks whether: (1) psychology of religion is doing what it is supposed to do, (2) the contemporary psychological attention to religion and spirituality is perhaps of a transgressive nature, and (3) conceptualizations of spirituality in psychological publications are biased. It makes a plea...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[2004]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2004, Volume: 43, Issue: 4, Pages: 291-316 |
Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B psychology of religion B Culture |
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Summary: | This paper asks whether: (1) psychology of religion is doing what it is supposed to do, (2) the contemporary psychological attention to religion and spirituality is perhaps of a transgressive nature, and (3) conceptualizations of spirituality in psychological publications are biased. It makes a plea for phenomenologically well-informed research on real forms of religion and spirituality, from a perspective that is as broad as psychology at present has become, with due regard for both the cultural make-up of the phenomena and the unavoidable limits of psychologists' professional competence. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-004-4298-4 |