Psychological Perspectives and the Religious Quest addresses the relationship between psychology and religion from empirical, historical, clinical and theological vantage points. Historical and theoretical considerations include attention to the history of psychology of religion in the United States and issues in the assessment of religious psychopathology stemming from Freud's analysis of religion. The essays present empirical research through feminist and qualitative methodologies applied to the psychology of religion, and experimental method utilized in the investigation of intrinsic and extrinsic religion, as well as an examination of the religiosity of psychologists interested in religion. They also discuss pastoral psychology and psychotherapy from psychoanalytic perspectives, feminists perspectives, and from the vantage point of the identity, ethics and type of discourse within these interdisciplinary fields. The conclusion consists of theologically oriented considerations of the role of liturgy and narrative in the formation of the self and the impact of losing a mother at birth upon the theological worldview of a clergyman.
chapter 1 Preface
chapter 2 Acknowledgments
chapter 3 Introduction
chapter 4 American Psychology and the Psychology of Religion
chapter 5 Bridging Religion and Psychology
chapter 6 Theological Criteria in the Assessment of Religious Psychopathology
chapter 7 The Psychology of Religion and the Religion of Psychology
chapter 8 Feminist Perspectives in the Psychology of Religion
chapter 9 I and E in Developmental Perspective
chapter 10 Classical and Contemporary Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Self
chapter 11 Identity, Language and Ethics in Pastoral Psychology...A Feminist Approach
chapter 12 A Theological Worldview of an infant Motherless Child Become Clergy
chapter 13 Liturgy and Narrative Psychology in the Formation of the Self
chapter 14 Orlo Strunk Jr. Major Biographical Events and Information
chapter 15 Orlo Strunk Jr., Bibliography
chapter 16 Biographical Sketches of Editors
chapter 17 Contributors
Lallene J. Rector is Associate Professor of Psychology of Religion and Pastoral Psychotherapy at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. Weaver Santaniello is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus.
