Psychology, religion, and the nature of the soul
Subtitle: a historical entanglement
By: Graham Richards
Series: Library of the history of psychological theories
Publisher: Springer; Springer Verlag
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781441971722
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Psychology and religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of the problem; title: Mythos and logos; title: Psychology's religious roots. Education and the child ; The American dimension ; Some early British religious psychologists ; A Catholic detour ; Religious origins of the concept of "psychology" ; Conclusions; title: Psychology of religion. William James' the varieties of religious experience ; Classic psychology of religion ; The demise of classical psychology of religion ;  Conclusion; title: A boundary problem. John Macmurray ; Reinhold Niebuhr ; Paul Tillich ; Martin Buber ; The Union Theological Seminary connection ; Conclusion; title: The authenticity of religious experience; title: Religion and psychotherapy. Boston Emmanuel Movement (1906-1929) ; Britain between 1918 and c. 1980 ; The growth movement; title: The problem of prayer; title: Religion and personality; title: The theism question; title: Psychology and non-Christian religions; title: Religion and psychological theory. Piaget : salvaging Protestantism by other means? ; Freud : the mysterious nature of psychoanalysis ; Gordon W. Allport (1897-1967) : the psychology of an Episcopalian ; Atheism and anti-religious psychology ; Conclusion; title: Conclusions, hypotheses, suggestions and a stab at a personal "position statement". Religious doctrines beyond psychology's brief ; Religion and psychology essentially concerned with the same issues ; Religion is an inferior alternative to psychology ; Reconstructing the relationship ; Two issues for historians of psychology ; An attempt at a final position ; Concluding remarks.