Religion In Personality Theory

Author : Frederick Walborn
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780124079434

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Religion in Personality Theory makes clear the link between theory and research and personality and religion. Presently, most personality texts have a limited discussion of religion and reference few theorists other than Freud and Maslow in relation to the subject. This book reviews the theory and the empirical literature on the writings of 14 theorists. Every chapter concludes with a summation of the current research on the theorist’s proposals. Reviews: "Frederick Walborn has written an excellent text that explores the degree to which classical personality theorists were personally influenced by and focused upon religion in developing their personality theories. Each theorist is presented in sufficient detail so that their personal views of religion are seen to influence the theories they developed. In addition, the current status of the empirical evidence in the psychology of religion is explored in the context of the theorist and theory to which the data is most relevant. Current and up to date, this text is appropriate for either a course in Personality or as an introduction to the Psychology of Religion. The author's own comprehensive theory of religion and spirituality creatively integrates the positive contributions of the classical personality theorist to the contemporary psychology of religion." -Ralph W. Hood Jr., Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga "In this interesting and accessible book, Frederick Walborn thoughtfully probes the place of religion and spirituality in the writings of a broad range of classical psychological thinkers and offers an insightful critique of current empirical research on the complex relation of religion and spirituality to individual well-being." -Michele Dillon, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire Identifies what major personality theorists say about religion Investigates whether evidence supports or refutes predictions made by different theories Concludes with a comprehensive integrative theory on religion and spirituality

Author : Christopher F. J. Ross,Leslie J. Francis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781793605832

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Personality, Religion, and Leadership by Christopher F. J. Ross,Leslie J. Francis Pdf

In Personality, Religion, and Leadership, Christopher F. J. Ross and Leslie J. Francis illustrate how Jungian archetypes can help religious leaders understand and deal with their personal spiritual journeys in times of stress and success and build strong religious communities that contain a diverse array of psychological types.

Author : Vassilis Saroglou
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136449840

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Religion, Personality, and Social Behavior by Vassilis Saroglou Pdf

Psychological interest in religion, in terms of both theory and empirical research, has been constant since the beginning of psychology. However, since the beginning of the 21st Century, partially due to important social and political events and developments, interest in religion within personality and social psychology has increased. This volume reviews the accumulated research and theory on the major aspects of personality and social psychology as applied to religion. It provides a high quality integrative, systematic, and rigorous review of that work, with a focus on topics that are both central in personality and social psychology and have allowed for the accumulation of solid and replicated and not impressionist knowledge on religion. The contributors are renowned researchers in the field who offer an international perspective that is both illuminating, yet neutral, with respect to religion. The volume’s primary audience are academics, researchers, and advanced students in social psychology, but it will also interest those in sociology, political sciences, and anthropology.

Author : Frank De Piano,Ashe Mukherjee,Scott Mitchel Kamilar,Lynne M Hagen,Elaine Hartsman,R. Paul Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135788889

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Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy by Frank De Piano,Ashe Mukherjee,Scott Mitchel Kamilar,Lynne M Hagen,Elaine Hartsman,R. Paul Olson Pdf

Integrate spiritual traditions with psychological healing! In this fascinating volume, clinical practitioners of different religious traditions examine the same clinical case, offering insights, interventions, and explanations of transformation and healing. This practical approach allows them to explore broader issues of personality theory and psychology from the perspectives of various spiritual traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy addresses both the practical issues of doing psychotherapy and the deeper need to relate psychology and theology. After providing a thorough introduction to the spiritual tradition, each author presents a critical psychological theory of personality and psychotherapy grounded in that tradition. The authors address the questions of what it means to be a person, what causes human distress, and how individuals experience healing. Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy offers profound insights into the urgent issues of human suffering and psychological transformation, including: theories of personality structure and human motivation the nature of experience and processes of change the dialectical relation of theology and psychology convergences and difference among the religious psychologies Marrying theory and practice, spirit and psyche, Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy offers profound insights and effective interventions. Mental health professionals, clergy, and scholars in religion, cross-cultural studies, personality, counseling, and psychotherapy will find this breakthrough book a life-changing experience and an invaluable resource.

Author : James Forsyth
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004635495

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Psychological Theories of Religion by James Forsyth Pdf

This book surveys the major theorists in the psychology of religion--Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, William James, Erich Fromm, Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow and Viktor Frankl--who are all seminal thinkers and represent the classical theories in this field. Each of these theorists presents a more or less comprehensive theory of religion, which attempts to give an account of the psychological origin and/or value of religion. The approach of the book, in each case, shows how the theory of religion emerges not only from the theorist's psychological theory, but also from his own life experience. Each chapter contains an introductory overview of the theory, biographical material on the theorist, his theory of personality, his theory of religion, and an evaluation of the theory of religion. This consistent chapter format discusses the theorists' influence on the field, points out some developments from and reactions to the theory, and raises certain questions in order to stimulate readers' own critical responses. For individuals who wants to view--and better understand--religion from the psychological perspective.

Author : Sara R. Farris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004254091

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Max Weber’s Theory of Personality by Sara R. Farris Pdf

Max Weber's writings in The Sociology of Religion are today acknowledged as a classic of the social sciences in the twentieth century. They are key texts for understanding Weber’s central sociological concepts concerning Western and Eastern ‘civilisations’. This book argues that the concept and problematic of personality plays a pivotal role within these works. Providing a detailed reconstruction of this concept within Weber’s systematic studies of world religions as well as throughout his methodological and political writings, this book shows its complex development within three strictly related problematics associated with Weber’s influential comparative historical sociology and theory of social action – individuation, politics and orientalism. Together they shape and constitute what is distinctive in Max Weber’s theory of personality.

Author : Graham Richards
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441971739

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Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul by Graham Richards Pdf

Neither a book about the psychology of spirituality nor America’s ongoing turf wars between religion and science, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul takes to task many of the presumed relationships between the two—from sharing common concerns to diametrically hostile opposites—to analyze the myriad functions religion and psychology play in our understanding of the human life and mind. Graham Richards takes the historical and philosophical long view in these rigorous and readable essays, which trace three long-running and potentially outmoded threads: that psychology and religion are irrelevant to each other, that they are complementary and should collaborate, and that one will eventually replace the other. He references a stunning variety of texts (from Freud and Allport to Karen Armstrong and Paul Tillich) reflecting the evolution of these ideas over the decades, to emphasize both the complexity of the issues and the enduring lack of easy answers. The eloquence of the writing and passionate objectivity of the argument will interest readers on all sides of the debate as the author examines: the religious origins of psychology, the original dichotomy: mythos versus logos, the authenticity of religious experience, Religion and personality, the problematic role of prayer and Religion in the history of psychotherapy. For those making a serious study of the history of psychology, Psychology, Religion, and the Nature of the Soul will inspire a fresh wave of critical discussion and inquiry.

Author : Gerard Saucier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004522831

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Culture, Personality, and the Psychology of Religion by Gerard Saucier Pdf

Culture and personality are deeply related. Gerard Saucier articulates their interface, and new insights regarding the psychology of religion and spirituality. Rather than making assumptions of cultural homogeneity that promote stereotyping, Gerard Saucier applies a distributive model of culture which assumes heterogeneity, linking the otherwise separate compartments of culture and personality. Personality variation maps cultural non-uniformity, but variation in mindset (attitudes, beliefs, values) does so more directly. Studies of isms concepts embedded in natural language demonstrate that matters of religion and spirituality make up a substantial fraction of culture-relevant mindset, and empirical evidence shows these have a large effect-size contribution to cultural differences between nations around the globe. This book will be of much interest to specialists and (post-graduate) graduate students interested in culture, personality, and religion or spirituality.

Author : Frank De Piano,Ashe Mukherjee,Scott Mitchel Kamilar,Lynne M Hagen,Elaine Hartsman,R. Paul Olson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135788957

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Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy by Frank De Piano,Ashe Mukherjee,Scott Mitchel Kamilar,Lynne M Hagen,Elaine Hartsman,R. Paul Olson Pdf

Integrate spiritual traditions with psychological healing! In this fascinating volume, clinical practitioners of different religious traditions examine the same clinical case, offering insights, interventions, and explanations of transformation and healing. This practical approach allows them to explore broader issues of personality theory and psychology from the perspectives of various spiritual traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy addresses both the practical issues of doing psychotherapy and the deeper need to relate psychology and theology. After providing a thorough introduction to the spiritual tradition, each author presents a critical psychological theory of personality and psychotherapy grounded in that tradition. The authors address the questions of what it means to be a person, what causes human distress, and how individuals experience healing. Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy offers profound insights into the urgent issues of human suffering and psychological transformation, including: theories of personality structure and human motivation the nature of experience and processes of change the dialectical relation of theology and psychology convergences and difference among the religious psychologies Marrying theory and practice, spirit and psyche, Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy offers profound insights and effective interventions. Mental health professionals, clergy, and scholars in religion, cross-cultural studies, personality, counseling, and psychotherapy will find this breakthrough book a life-changing experience and an invaluable resource.

Author : Dr. Dan & Kate Montgomery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780557196678

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CHRISTIAN PERSONALITY THEORY: A Self Compass For Humanity by Dr. Dan & Kate Montgomery Pdf

"Christian Personality Theory" unites a Judeo/Christian foundation with the best in theorizing about multi-dimensional human personhood. Refusing to settle for either reductionist psychology or simple-minded theology, Dan and Kate Montgomery deliver a biblical Trinitarian theology well integrated with clinical, developmental, and personality theory. The result is insight that can transform personality and relationships in wise and helpful ways. Laypersons, counselors, and clergy will appreciate this thoughtful work written in clear and practical prose. Praised by professors at Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Notre Dame, Fuller, Gordon Conwell, Andover Newton, and ORU, this book provides an incomparable resource for all interested in a uniquely Christian theory of personality.

Author : H. Newton Malony
Publisher : Baker Publishing Group (MI)
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801062683

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Psychology of Religion by H. Newton Malony Pdf

Psychology of Religion examines 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from Freud to Fromm to Allport, from a new, international perspective. The twenty-two contributors are today's leading psychologists who work in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and Israel, among them John Carter, Gary Collins, and David Myers. This volume began in a special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Religion published in 1986. To those articles, the contributors each have added one new essay. Other writers have been included. The result is a well rounded historical and personal retrospective. Subjects explored include religious experience, personality theory, psychopathology, research methods, social and clinical psychology, and the integration of psychology and theology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Adjustment (Psychology)
ISBN : 1433810778

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APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality: Context, theory, and research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laurence B. Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461226963

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Religion, Personality, and Mental Health by Laurence B. Brown Pdf

LAURENCE B. BROWN Nearly all the papers in this collection were prepared initially by a group of psychologists interested in the social scientific study of religion. They included some working with the mentally ill in medical, religious, or secular contexts, as well as teachers and researchers in psychology or theology. Their papers aim to test, or to reflect on, common prejudices about the links between mental health and religion, especially when they are thought to be mediated by personality characteristics. All the papers have been revised for this collection. A clear consensus emerged that religion has many positive effects, despite Wulff's (1991" p. 307) unguarded assertion that, "without ques tion the mentally disturbed are frequently attracted by religion." Any assumption that religion is necessarily a "danger" to health, or closely related to mental illness, is not supported by the evidence from carefully controlled studies that follow a social science perspective. Malony's paper, page 16 in this collection, therefore emphasizes that we must take account of the ways in which anyone's religion is integrated into their life, the functions it serves for them and their acceptance by other members of the religious and other groups to which they belong.

Author : Sylvia Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107180581

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Kierkegaard and Religion by Sylvia Walsh Pdf

Focusing on the concepts of personality, character, and virtue, this work examines what it means to exist religiously for Kierkegaard.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090060642

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Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy by Anonim Pdf