Textbooks in review: Introductions to the psychology of religion

Stausberg, Michael

doi:10.1080/0048721x.2012.733619

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“…Michael Stausberg, a scholar in religion, points out that psychologists of religion very rarely publish in periodicals on religious studies, rarely visit conferences for the discipline, their books are rarely reviewed by religious studies journals and vice versa. The result is a peculiar situation: ‘there is at present no real meeting ground between the psychology of religion and the study of religion\s’ (Stausberg, 2013, p. 136). The situation is all the more peculiar because studies in culture and religion are precisely what gives the proper context to psychology of religion, supplying it with knowledge and tools for studying other religious traditions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Which psychology(ies) serves us best? Research perspectives on the psycho-cultural interface in the psychology of religion(s)

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Grzymała-Moszczyńska

Krzysztof-Świderska

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The article concentrates on answering the main question to be addressed, as stated in its title: which psychology(ies) serves us best? In order to achieve this goal, we pursue possible answers in history of psychology of religion and its interdisciplinary relationships with its sister disciplines, anthropology of religion and religious studies, resulting with sketching a typology of the main attitudes towards conceptualising psycho-cultural interface, prevalent among psychologists: the Universalist, the Absolutist and the Relativist stances. Next chosen examples from the field of applied psychology are presented, as the role of the cultural factor within the history of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ ( DSM) development is discussed alongside presenting research on the phenomenon of ‘hearing voices’, in order to show the marked way for the future – the importance of including the cultural factor in psychological research on religion.

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Section: Introduction: a Not-so-new Subject?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Which psychology(ies) serves us best? Research perspectives on the psycho-cultural interface in the psychology of religion(s)

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Grzymała-Moszczyńska

Krzysztof-Świderska

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“…The Jagiellonian psychology of religion was part of the discipline of religious studies and teaching program since the Institute's inception. Yet internationally psychology of religion is rather distant from religious studies, as noticed by, for instance, Michael Stausberg (2013), who pointed to the methodological differences and to the parallel development of the two disciplines. Nowadays, the subject undertaken by psychology of religion-analysis of religious experiences, individual aspects of religion, morphology of religious experiences, and so on,-are of course of interest to religious studies, but more as part of its cognitive studies of religion sub-discipline.…”

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Three decades of the Polish psychology of religion (1989–2020)

Anczyk

2021

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Poland, being a post-Communist European country with a tradition of Marxists religious studies in operation till 1989, developed during the Communist Era an original way of connecting psychology of religion with the value-neutral study of religion. It is also a Catholic a country, in which psychology of religion was practiced in a bipolar milieu: religion as a “sensitive” topic was approached from either Marxist-atheist or Catholic religious perspective. Such dualistic divisions should end with the breaking of the Iron Curtain, and opening to the West, but was it so in this country of contrasts? The article forms a bird’s eye look on the last three decades of the Polish psychology of religion (1989–2020), concentrating on the “concrete products of scientific inquiry” therefore main works of scholars in the field are presented, discussed and context-wise interpreted in order to provide some answers for that query.

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“…In particular, given various difficulties, we were unable to keep all the planned article series going in the long run. However, we initiated a different and important series of articles, comprising critical review essays on introductory textbooks to fields of studies such as the anthropology of religion, the psychology of religion, the sociology of religion and religious traditions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and Western Esotericism (Berkwitz 2016;Day 2019;Day and Coleman 2016;Gottschalk 2019;Hanegraaff 2013;Hawley 2015;Robinson 2013;Schrode 2016;Stausberg 2013;Stausberg and Engler 2013). We invite further contributions to this series.…”

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confidence: 99%