The Image of God and the Psychology of Religion

ISBN-13: 9780789027603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 119 str.

Richard Dayringer; David Oler

Opis

Improve your confidence--and your practice skills--by enhancing your knowledge of how individuals are likely to perceive God, and of how those perceptions impact the way they function as human beings. Theologians have long speculated and theorized about how humans imagine God to be. This book merges theology with science, presenting empirical research focused on perceptions of God in a variety of populations living in community and mental health settings. Each chapter concludes with references that comprise an essential reading list, and the book is generously enhanced with tables that make data easy to access and understand.

Spis treści

• Foreword: From Anthropopathism to Transformational Religious Behavior (David Oler)
  
• Preface
  
• Liberating Images of God (Cynthia Stone)
  
• Attachment, Well-Being, and Religious Participation Among People with Severe Mental Disorders (Michelle A. Schottenbauer, Roger D. Fallot, and Christine L. Tyrrell)
  
• Concepts of God and Therapeutic Alliance Among People with Severe Mental Disorders (Michele A. Schottenbauer, Roger D. Fallot, Susan T. Azrin, and Robert Coursey)
  
• The Subjective Experience of God (M. Chet Mirman)
  
• Relationship of Gender Role Identity and Attitudes with Images of God (Christina Lambert and Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius)
  
• Reflections on a Study in a Mental Hospital (Richard Dayringer)
  
• The Formation of Adolescents’ Image of God: Predictors and Age and Gender Differences (Augustine Meier and Molisa Meier)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Richard L Dayringer (Author) , David Oler (Author)