Psychology Of Religion category: 309 books
The Cognitive Science of Religion
A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new and rapidly expanding field. In these studies, cognitive scientists of religion have applied the theories, findings and research tools of the cognitive sciences to understanding...
by Eugene Halliday
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2017
In seinem Buch "Die Eroberung der Angst" behandelt Eugene Halliday die Tatsache, das Angst und Furcht zu einem gewissen Grad in den Gemütern aller Menschen dieser Welt gegenwärtig sind. Hier zeigt er uns einen Weg zur Bewältigung dieses negativen Gemütszustandes, welcher, bewusst oder...
Psicoterapia de Dios
La fe como resiliencia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2018
¿Porque tenemos la necesidad de creer en algo o alguien? ¿Que pasa en nuestro cerebro cuando ponemos en práctica nuestra fe? ¿Porque las religiones siguen contando con una excelente salud en el mundo, a pesar de que los progresos de la ciencia nos muestran cada vez con más detalle un universo...
Psicoterapia senza l'Io
Una prospettiva buddhista
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Questo libro tratta della relazione complessa tra buddhismo e psicoterapia: anche se entrambe le prospettive promettono la liberazione per mezzo della consapevolezza di sé, la nozione centrale della psicologia buddhista è il non sé, mentre un concetto basilare della psicoterapia occidentale è...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
The Structural Trauma of Western Culture
Toward the End of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This book describes the diverse manifestations of trauma and the ways in which trauma has shaped—and dismantled—our culture. Yochai Ataria describes how we are addicted to trauma and have become both its avid producers and consumers. Consequently, the culture in which we live has become posttraumatic...
Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice
Guidelines for Psychotherapists and Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Spirituality lies at the heart of many clients' core values, and helps shape their perception of themselves and the world around them. In this book, two clinical psychologists provide a much-needed, research-based road map to help professionals appropriately address their clients’ spiritual or religious...
Psyche, Culture and the New Science
The Role of PN
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Originally published in 1985, this distinguished and constructive critique of modern culture introduced into our language a brand-new term, ‘PN’, standing for ‘psychic nutrition’, which at the time promised to become a household expression.
Drawing on his first-hand knowledge of oriental...
by Newton Fortuin
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Within the context of this book "Shades of Darkness" is roughly analogous with Jung's idea of "The Shadow" and Freud's Unconscious.The manuscript covers seven of these shadows or dark sides of our being which I refer to as “The Seven Shades of Darkness”. These shades are not based...
Death and Mastery
Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse of their proposed "marriage of Marx and Freud," psychology and social theory have grown...
The Oneness Hypothesis
Beyond the Boundary of Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected...
God Is Watching You
How the Fear of God Makes Us Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The biblical story of the flood crystalizes--in its terrifying, dramatic simplicity--the universally recognized...
Born to Believe
God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Born to Believe was previously published in hardcover as Why We Believe What We Believe.
Prayer...meditation...speaking in tongues. What do these spiritual activities share and how do they differ? Why do some people believe in God, while others embrace atheism? From the ordinary to the extraordinary,...
Religious Conversion and Disaffiliation
Tracing Patterns of Change in Faith Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
This book is the first in over a decade to attempt a systematic synthesis of the field of conversion studies, encompassing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, and theology. Gooren analyzes conversion and disaffiliation in a worldwide comparative framework, using data from North America, Europe, and Latin America.