Psychohistory in Psychology of Religion : : Interdisciplinary Studies / / edited by Jacob A. Belzen.
Psychology of religion is one of the rare fields in psychology where an interdisciplinary approach has been preserved. Psychohistory especially, understood as the systematic application of psychological knowledge in explorations of the past, has enjoyed substantial attention. Traditionally, the emph...
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| Superior document: | International Series in the Psychology of Religion ; 12 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001. |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International Series in the Psychology of Religion ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Jacob A. BELZEN: Religion as an object of empirical research - Psychohistory as exemplary interdisciplinary approach
- Antoon VERGOTE: Changing figures and the importance of demonic possession
- Biographical studies
- Donald CAPPS: Sundén's role-taking theory - The case of John Henry Newman and his mentors
- William W. MEISSNER: Belief in non-belief - The case of Vincent van Gogh
- Ana-María RIZZUTO: Freud's disrupted idealizations, religious unbelief, and his collection of antiquities
- Richard A. HUTCH: Beyond the reach of a miracle - Hitler, Stalin, and the "great man"
- Group studies
- Arne JARRICK: To be or not to be ¼ human - On the psychological history of religious and existential attitudes towards suicide
- Michael P. CARROLL: The Penitentes of New Mexico and the meaning of discipline
- Jacob A. BELZEN: Religion and social order - Psychological factors in Dutch pillarization, especially among the Calvinists
- Jozef CORVELEYN: Folk religiosity or psychopathology? The case of the apparitions of the Virgin in Beauraing, Belgium, 1932-1933
- Notes on Contributors
- Author
- Index.