Psychological Type, Religion, and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780815362005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 190 str.

Christopher Alan Lewis

Opis

This book demonstrates the importance of Jungian Psychological Type theory in understanding individual differences in religiosity within a variety of samples. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mental Health, Religion & Culture.

Spis treści

Introduction: Psychological type, religion, and culture  Part I: Church leaders, religion, and psychological type  1. Confirming the psychological type profile of Anglican churchmen in Wales: a ministry for sensing types  2. Psychological types and self-assessed leadership skills of clergy in the Church of England  3. Psychological type and the training relationship: an empirical study among curates and training incumbents  4. Early and late responders to questionnaires: clues from psychological type  5. Psychological type profile of Protestant church leaders in Australia: are clergymen and clergywomen different?  6. Psychological type profile of clergywomen and clergymen serving in the New York metropolitan area of the Reformed Church in America  7. Work-related psychological health and psychological type: a study among Catholic priests in Italy  8. Psychological type functions and biblical scholarship: an empirical enquiry among members of the Society of Biblical Literature  Part II: Church members, religion and psychological type  9. Psychological type differences between churchgoers and church-leavers  10. The psychological type profile of Christians participating in fellowship groups or in small study groups: insights from the Australian National Church Life Survey  11. Created to be guardians? Psychological type profiles of members of cathedral Friends associations in England  12. Unsettling the guardian: quest religiosity and psychological type among Anglican churchgoers  13. Inside Southwark Cathedral: a study in psychological-type profiling  14. Spiritual well-being and psychological type: a study among visitors to a medieval cathedral in Wales  15. The perceiving process and mystical orientation: a study in psychological type theory among 16- to 18-year-old students  16. The personality of the Fourth Evangelist  17. Do different psychological types look for different things in sermons? A research note

O autorze

Christopher Alan Lewis is Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre at Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, UK. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia. He is co-Editor of the Mental Health, Religion & Culture journal.