Title: Psychological and religious development : maturity and maturation /
Authors: Kao, Charles C. L., 1932-
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Psychology, Religious.; Developmental psychology.; Maturation (Psychology).
Abstract: This book has come out of nearly a decade of personal interviews, biographical analysis, and literature survey in related fields. It attempts to present a comprehensive picture of human growth with depth and perceptive insight, (which may stimulate some psychologists and social scientists toward formulating new hypothesis in their empirical study). By integrating theories from the literature survey and critical reflection on the study with the concrete life experiences from personal interviews and biographies, I wish to present a thorough picture of maturity and maturation to the reader with the hope that he or she may be engaged in pushing our present culture to a more mature stage.
Contents: I Quest for meaning -- Part one : contexts -- II Contexts, events, and persons -- Family context -- Educational context -- Church context -- Other contexts -- Part two : maturation -- III Maturation (I) -- Basic principles in maturation -- Infancy and paradise -- Toddlerhood and the fall -- Early childhood and anthropomorphic faith -- Middle and late childhood and socializing faith -- IV Maturation (II) -- Adolescence and doubting faith -- Young adulthood and existential faith -- Middle adulthood and integrated faith -- Late adulthood and simplified faith -- Meaning and maturity -- Part three : maturity -- V Autonomy and independence -- Autonomy and maturity -- Autonomy and human development -- Autonomy and automation -- Autonomy and religious experience -- VI Identity and ego-ideal -- Quest for identity -- Identity formation -- Identity, culture, and community -- Identity and religious experience -- VII Creativity and care -- Creativity and maturity -- The creative person -- The creative condition -- The creative process -- Creativity and religious experience -- VIII Reality perception -- Perception and emotion -- Perceptual development -- Perceptual set and distortion -- Perception and culture -- Perception and religious experience -- IX Suffering and coping -- Suffering, pain, and stress -- Successful coping -- Loneliness, love, and suffering -- Suffering and religious experience -- X Conclusion.