The Psychology of Religion and Place: Emerging Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030288501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 340 str.

Victor Counted; Fraser Watts

Spis treści

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion and Place

Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

Chapter 2: Sacred Places: The presence of the past

Chapter 3: Religion, Place, and Attachment: An evaluation of conceptual frameworks

Chapter 4: Embodied Spirituality Following Disaster: Exploring the intersections of religious and place attachment in resilience and meaning making

Chapter 5: The Psychology and Theology of Place: A perspective from the Judeo-Christian tradition

Chapter 6: Pride of Place in a Religious Context: An environmental psychology and sociology perspective

Chapter 7: Mapping the visible and invisible topographies of place and landscape through sacred mobilities

Chapter 8: ‘A Dwelling Place for Dragons’: Wild places in mythology and folklore

Chapter 9: Religious and Place Attachment: A cascade of parallel processes

Chapter 10: God and Place as Attachment ‘Figures’ – A critical examination

Part II. Empirical Applications and Practical Implications

Chapter 11: Religion, Well-being, and Therapeutic Landscape

Chapter 12: “To Him I Commit My Spirit”: Attachment to God, the Land and the People as a Means of Dealing with Crises in Gaza Strip

Chapter 13: Glimpses of a Place Spirituality in American Filmmaker John Sayles’ Limbo: Authenticity, inauthenticity, and modes of place engagement

Chapter 14: Place-Making and Religion: A solidarity psychology of the commons

Chapter 15: How and Why Environmental and Religious Attachment Matters for Quality of Life

Chapter 16: Defining the psychology of religion and place: A concept analysis

Index

O autorze

Victor Counted, PhD, is Research Associate of the Cambridge Institute of Applied Psychology and Religion and teaches at the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Fraser Watts, PhD, is Visiting Professor of Psychology of Religion at the University of Lincoln, UK, Executive Secretary of the International Society of Science and Religion and Director of the Cambridge Institute for Applied Psychology and Religion at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Blurb

This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people’s understanding of their environment, and how their place experiences are transformed in the process. The contributors consider how understandings and experiences of religious and place connections are motivated by the need to seek and maintain contact with perceptual objects, so as to form meaningful relationship experiences. The purpose is not to engage in comparative religion or analyse different religious traditions in relation to place, but rather to understand how people's perceptions of physical, imaginary and transpersonal objects shape their religious and place experiences. This book is one of the first scholarly attempts to discuss the psychological links between place and religious experiences. The chapters provide insights for understanding how people’s experiences with geographical places and the sacred serve as agencies for meaning-making, pro-social behaviour, and psychological adjustment in everyday life.