Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion Principles, Approaches, Appl
This 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 str
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Jacob A. Belzen
Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion Principles, Approaches, Applications
Jacob A. Belzen Faculty of Humanities University of Amsterdam Oude Turfmarkt 147 1012 GC Amsterdam The Netherlands [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-3490-8 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3491-5 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3491-5 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010922791 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
Although none of the chapters in this book have ever been published in their present form, parts of them draw significantly on papers that were previously published. I am grateful to the publishers for granting permission to re-use material from the following publications: Chapter 2 The historicocultural approach in the psychology of religion: Perspectives for interdisciplinary research. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1997, 36, 358–371. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.) Chapter 3 Cultural psychology of religion: Profile of an interdisciplinary approach. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 2009, 20, 103–129. (Leiden: Brill.) Chapter 4 The cultural-psychological approach to religion: Contemporary debates on the object of the discipline. Theory and Psychology, 1999, 9, 229–256. (London: Sage.) Chapter 5 Methodological issues in the psychology of religion: Towards another paradigm? Journal of Psychology, 2006, 140, 5–28. (Washington: Heldref.) Chapter 6 Studying the specificity of spirituality: Lessons from the psychology of religion. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 2009, 12, 205–222. (London: Routledge.) v
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Chapter 7 Methodological concerns in the psychology of religion: Continuities, losses and transforming perspectives. Religion, 2005, 35, 137–165. (Oxford: Elsevier.) Chapter 8 Culture and the ‘dialogical self’: Toward a secular cultural psychology of religion. In: Straub, J., Weidemann, D., Kölbl, C., & Zielke, B. (Eds.) (2006), Pursuit of Meaning: Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 129–152). (Bielefeld: Transcript.) Chapter 9 Religion as embodiment: Cultural-psychological concepts and methods in the study of conversion among “Bevindelijken”. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1999, 38, 236–253. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.) Chapter 10 Religion, culture and psychopathology. Cultural-psychological reflections on religion in a case of manslaughter in The Netherlands. Pastoral Psychology, 2000, 48, 415–435. (New York: Springer.) Chapter 11 Psychic functioning and mental health: The
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