| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) |
| Contents |
Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion; -- Chapter 1: Building Bridges; -- Chapter 2: A Hermeneutical, Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Religion; -- Chapter 3: Cultural Psychology of Religion; -- Chapter 4: The Way Out of Contemporary Debates on the Object of the Discipline; -- Chapter 5: Methodological Issues; -- Chapter 6: When Psychology Turns to Spirituality; -- Chapter 7: The Question of the Specificity of Religion; -- Chapter 8: A Cultural Psychological Promise to the Study of Religiosity: Background and Context of the "Dialogical Self"; -- Chapter 9: Religion as Embodiment |
| Summary |
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 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 themse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychology, Religious.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Psychology and religion.
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Ethnopsychology
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Religion and Psychology
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psychology of religion.
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ethnopsychology.
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RELIGION -- Psychology of Religion.
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Psychology and religion
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Ethnopsychology
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Psychology, Religious
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Volkenpsychologie.
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Godsdienstpsychologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048134915 |
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9048134919 |
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