Response to the Wholes Versus Parts Approach to the Psychology of Religion
Hutch's proposal to use Henry Murray's wholes or total-person approach for understanding the psychology of religion, although reasonable on the surface for at least one outlook, is rather simplistic, jargon laden, and convoluted. Hutch goes far beyond mere accommodation to the wholes argum...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[1991]
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The international journal for the psychology of religion
Year: 1991, Volume: 1, Issue: 4, Pages: 217-220 |
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| Summary: | Hutch's proposal to use Henry Murray's wholes or total-person approach for understanding the psychology of religion, although reasonable on the surface for at least one outlook, is rather simplistic, jargon laden, and convoluted. Hutch goes far beyond mere accommodation to the wholes argument to an exclusionary, reductionistic, and even indoctrinating application of Murray's methods. Failing to adequately warn of variations in interpretation, precision, awareness of motivation, environment, and awareness of one's own vulnerabilities and mortality and of subjective selection of biographies in studying lives as religious transformation, Hutch nonetheless makes a valuable point in questioning the absence of mortality and body in texts and indices on the psychology of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1532-7582 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Mortal Body, Studying Lives (1991)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal for the psychology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1207/s15327582ijpr0104_3 |