Religion,Culture and Psychopathology: Cultural-Psychological Reflections on Religion in a Case of Manslaughter in The Netherlands

Pastoral Psychology - During one of the religious gatherings which for some time had been taking place in the evening at the home of farmer Martin Schroevers around 1900 in the Dutch village of...     

The Future of Psychology of Religion

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Spirituality,Culture and Mental Health: Prospects and Risks for Contemporary Psychology of Religion

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.