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This book explores the positive psychological aspects of religion and spirituality in the Indian context. It discusses the concepts and practices of Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, and Sikhism and their impact on overall well-being. As the global enthusiasm for Indian spirituality grows, this book brings together scholars to share their perspectives and reflections on various religious aspects. The chapters offer readers a psychological "capsule" of mental health, well-being, compassion, kindness, character strength, mind-body relationship, and mindfulness, providing practical strategies for a better quality of life. Furthermore, this book offers insights into the different perspectives of happiness and well-being measured across diverse demographics. It also provides a qualitative conceptualization of happiness among older people, reflections on positive aging, and highlights the facilitators and inhibitors of happiness. With its comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach, this book serves as a valuable reference for postgraduate and doctoral students of Psychology, as well as a treasure trove in the libraries for researchers and faculties associated with spiritual psychology, positive psychology, religious studies, comparative literature, mental health professionals, academicians, and anyone interested in allied health fields.
Psychology and religion. --- Positive psychology. --- Spirituality. --- Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. --- Positive Psychology. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Psychology --- Religion and psychology
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Geestelijk leven --- Spiritual life --- Vie spirituelle --- J1883 --- J1994 --- J1712 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- other schools and sects --- Japan: Religion -- 'hapiness' religions --- Japan: Religion in general -- psychology of religion and spirituality --- J1960 --- Japan: Religion -- new religions --- Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality
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Philosophy, Asian --- Philosophie orientale --- History --- Histoire --- Izutsu, Toshihiko, --- J1712 --- J1709 --- Japan: Religion in general -- psychology of religion and spirituality --- Japan: Religion in general -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Philosophy, Asian - History --- Izutsu, Toshihiko, - 1914-1993
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This unique and pioneering book critically appraises current work from both the cognitive science of religion and the evolutionary study of religion. It addresses the question: Why does the believer possess supernatural or religious beliefs in the combined context of his cognitive biases, their adaptive usefulness measured in terms of survival and reproduction, and the impact of social learning and cultural traits? The authors outlines a pluralistic approach to the study of religion that does not treat religion as an accidental by-product but an adaptation selected by natural selection. Chapters discuss the role of religious components for the evolution of cooperation and altruism, and explore the development of atheism and secular ideas, in cognitive and evolutionary terms. Topics such as the usefulness of religion, the transmission of religious beliefs, and a Darwinian approach to religion are among those addressed. Contrary to standard views, religious biases are regarded as shaped by cultural influences and not merely by natural dispositions. This monograph will particularly appeal to researchers who are looking for a scientific explanation of religion and religious beliefs but who do not stop at the level of narrow cognitive and evolutionary accounts. The work will also be of interest to students of philosophy, sociology, religious studies, theology, or anthropology who seek to explain such fascinating, complex, and unequivocal phenomena as religion and religious components.
Religion—Philosophy. --- Religion. --- Psychology and religion. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Religion and Psychology. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Religion and civilization. --- Civilization and religion --- Civilization --- Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. --- Philosophy.
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This open access handbook aims to bridge the gap between the fields of positive psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality. It is the authoritative guide to the intersections among religion, spirituality, and positive psychology and includes the following sections: (1) historical and theoretical considerations, (2) methodological considerations, (3) cultural considerations, (4) developmental considerations, (5) empirical research on happiness and well-being in relation to religion and spirituality, (6) empirical research on character strengths and virtues in relation to religion and spirituality, (7) clinical and applied considerations, and (8) field unification and advancement. Leading positive psychologists and psychologists of religion/spirituality have coauthored the chapters, drawing on expertise from their respective fields. The handbook is useful for social and clinical scientists, practitioners in helping professions, practitioners in religious and spiritual fields, and students of psychology and religion/spirituality. A comprehensive resource examining the intersections of positive psychology and the psychology of religion/spirituality Draws connections between two fields that research has increasingly shown to be connected “This Handbook provides a masterful, comprehensive review of theory, research, and clinical applications at the exciting intersection between the psychology of religion/spirituality and positive psychology. It demonstrates each of those fields is incomplete without the other. This book should be in the shelf of every serious student of religion, spirituality, and psychology.” -Pehr Granqvist, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Stockholm University, Author of Attachment in Religion and Spirituality: A Wider View “Within this volume is found the next frontier of positive psychology, exponentially expanded through spiritual awareness and the translation of spiritual experience into lived positive cognition, behavioral habit, and practice. The editors of this volume help clear a rich new terrain for the next generation of humanitarian practitioners, researchers, and scholars.” -Lisa Miller, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, Editor of Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, Author of The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child “At last! This broad-based, creative, integrative handbook helps fill a niche by focusing directly on the interface between positive psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality.” -Julie J. Exline, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Co-Author of Working With Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy: From Research to Practice.
Positive psychology. --- Psychology and religion. --- Positive Psychology. --- Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Psychology --- Spirituality --- Positive psychology --- virtues --- character strengths --- health --- well-being --- happiness --- culture --- development --- meaning --- Psicologia positiva --- Religió --- Espiritualitat
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“A deeply engaged inquiry into the possibility of mystical spiritual direction today - the true topic of the book is ourselves, our spiritual fate. Furthermore, Murphy ruthlessly analyses how mystical experience is caught in the global capitalist commodification - if you really want an authentic spiritual experience, you should begin with a critique of capitalism.” —Professor Slavoj Zizek, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK “Through a powerfully illuminating reading of Jacques Lacan’s ‘anti-experientialist’ psychoanalytic practice, Murphy uncovers the cultural forces which reduce spirituality to superficial notions of wellbeing.” —Dr Edward Howells, Associate Tutor at Ripon College Cuddesdon and Associate Member of Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, UK This book examines Lacanian psychoanalysis and Christian mystical theology demonstrating the former’s potential for reinvigorating spiritual direction. The author outlines how current methods of spiritual direction become saturated with self-help psycho-pop methodologies, and that desire has therefore been foreclosed in these practices. He suggests that the root of this is a focus on ‘positive affective experientialism’, which means spiritual direction must focus on emotional wholeness, healing and positivity. Finally, he argues that a new dialogue between John of the Cross (a mystic whose writings on spiritual direction formulate part of the core of the Catholic spiritual tradition) and Jacques Lacan can open the way for a spiritual direction beyond the confines of experientialism. The book concludes that we can only escape the experiential commodification of spiritual direction by critiquing the drive to experience in and of itself. This novel work will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, religion, philosophy and critical theory. Mark Gerard Murphy is Lecturer at St Mary’s University, Gillis Centre, Scotland, where he convenes courses on ethics, philosophy, and mystical theology and spirituality. .
Psychoanalysis. --- Spirituality. --- Psychology and religion. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Theology. --- Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Christian Theology. --- Psychoanalysis and religion. --- Psicoanàlisi --- Espiritualitat --- Desig --- Joan de la Creu, --- Lacan, Jacques,
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This book provides a historically contextualized introduction to the dialogue between religion and psychotherapy in modern Japan. In doing so, it draws out connections between developments in medicine, government policy, Japanese religion and spirituality, social and cultural criticism, regional dynamics, and gender relations.
Psychology and religion --- Psychology and religion. --- Psychotherapy --- Psychotherapy. --- Religious aspects. --- Japan. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Religious aspects --- J7987 --- J1712 --- J1714 --- Japan: Science and technology -- medical science -- psychotherapy, faith cure --- Japan: Religion in general -- psychology of religion and spirituality --- Japan: Religion in general -- sociology of religion
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Dutch literature --- C1 --- Japan [land in werelddeel Azië] --- boeddhisme --- spiritualiteit --- 215.1 --- dagboek --- #GGSB: Geestelijke lezing (geel) --- #GGSB: Spiritualiteit --- Kerken en religie --- Zen-Boeddhisme --- 248 <520> --- 248 <520> Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Japan --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--Japan --- 248 <520> Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--Japan --- Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--Japan --- J1880 --- J1712 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Zen --- Japan: Religion in general -- psychology of religion and spirituality --- Geestelijke lezing (geel) --- Spiritualiteit
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This book addresses the eclipse of shame in Christian theology by showing how shame emerges in Christian texts and practice in ways that can be neither assimilated into a discourses of guilt nor dissociated from embodiment. Stephanie N. Arel argues that the traditional focus on guilt obscures shame by perpetuating the image of the lonely sinner in guilt. Drawing on recent studies in affect and attachment theories to frame the theological analysis, the text examines the theological anthropological writings of Augustine and Reinhold Niebuhr, the interpretation of empathy by Edith Stein, and moments of touch in Christian praxis. Bringing the affective dynamics of shame to the forefront enables theologians and religious leaders to identify where shame emerges in language and human behaviour. The text expands work in trauma theory, providing a multi-layered theological lens for engaging shame and accompanying suffering. .
Religion. --- Health --- Psychology and religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Religion and Health. --- Religion and Psychology. --- Religious aspects. --- Psychology, Religious. --- Psychology of religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Psychology and religion --- Health-Religious aspects. --- Religion and psychology --- Health—Religious aspects. --- Religion and sociology. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology
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This book calls attention to ways of fostering dialogue among members of different religious traditions in an era of cultural and religious pluralism. To achieve this, the author analyzes the results of an ethnographic study of Ihievbe, a town in Midwestern Nigeria that is religiously pluralistic. Emphasis is given to hospitality and friendship—two key relational, cultural, philosophical, and theological virtues—as tools for constructing healthy interreligious dialogue that is relevant for our times. A critical study is done on the importance of these two dialogical virtues in the religious expressions of Roman Catholicism, Islam, and Ihievbe Traditional Religion. Preference for ethnographic studies is based on stressing the relevance of context in articulating useful practices of interreligious dialogue. Finally, the book articulates ways the fruits of interreligious dialogue can be celebrated in the liturgical rituals of each religion, especially the three religions that are addressed here.
Religions --- Hospitality --- Interreligious relations --- Relations among religions --- Relations. --- Religious aspects. --- Religion and sociology. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- Psychology and religion. --- Social Aspects of Religion. --- Sociology of Religion. --- African Culture. --- Religion and Psychology. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Ethnology—Africa. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Africa. --- Social aspects
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