Spirituality,Culture and Mental Health: Prospects and Risks for Contemporary Psychology of Religion |
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Authors: | Jacob A. Belzen |
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Affiliation: | (1) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This paper asks whether: (1) psychology of religion is doing what it is supposed to do, (2) the contemporary psychological attention to religion and spirituality is perhaps of a transgressive nature, and (3) conceptualizations of spirituality in psychological publications are biased. It makes a plea for phenomenologically well-informed research on real forms of religion and spirituality, from a perspective that is as broad as psychology at present has become, with due regard for both the cultural make-up of the phenomena and the unavoidable limits of psychologists' professional competence. |
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Keywords: | psychology of religion spirituality culture |
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