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a historical entanglement

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a historical entanglement

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176

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Cover of: Psychology, religion, and the nature of the soul
Psychology, religion, and the nature of the soul: a historical entanglement
2011, Springer, Springer Verlag
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Table of Contents

The nature of the problem
Mythos and logos
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
Psychology of religion. William James' the varieties of religious experience ; Classic psychology of religion ; The demise of classical psychology of religion ; Conclusion
A boundary problem. John Macmurray ; Reinhold Niebuhr ; Paul Tillich ; Martin Buber ; The Union Theological Seminary connection ; Conclusion
The authenticity of religious experience
Religion and psychotherapy. Boston Emmanuel Movement (1906-1929) ; Britain between 1918 and c. 1980 ; The growth movement
The problem of prayer
Religion and personality
The theism question
Psychology and non-Christian religions
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
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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-174) and index.

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Library of the history of psychological theories

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Dewey Decimal Class
200.19
Library of Congress
BL53 .R534 2011, BF81-107.L4BL51BL1-2, BL53 .R534 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 176 p. ;
Number of pages
176

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24917371M
Internet Archive
psychologyreligi00rich
ISBN 10
1441971726
ISBN 13
9781441971722
LCCN
2010935848
OCLC/WorldCat
646114440

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