The Psychology of Religion and Place: Emerging Perspectives

by Victor Counted (Editor), Fraser Watts (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people’s understanding of their environment. 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 volume is one of the first scholarly attempts to discuss the psychological links between place and religious experiences.The chapters within 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030288488
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion and PlacePart I. Theoretical and Methodological PerspectivesChapter 2: Sacred Places: The presence of the pastChapter 3: Religion, Place, and Attachment: An evaluation of conceptual frameworksChapter 4: Embodied Spirituality Following Disaster: Exploring the intersections of religious and place attachment in resilience and meaning makingChapter 5: The Psychology and Theology of Place: A perspective from the Judeo-Christian traditionChapter 6: Pride of Place in a Religious Context: An environmental psychology and sociology perspectiveChapter 7: Mapping the visible and invisible topographies of place and landscape through sacred mobilitiesChapter 8: ‘A Dwelling Place for Dragons’: Wild places in mythology and folkloreChapter 9: Religious and Place Attachment: A cascade of parallel processesChapter 10: God and Place as Attachment ‘Figures’ – A critical examinationPart II. Empirical Applications and Practical ImplicationsChapter 11: Religion, Well-being, and Therapeutic LandscapeChapter 12: “To Him I Commit My Spirit”: Attachment to God, the Land and the People as a Means of Dealing with Crises in Gaza StripChapter 13: Glimpses of a Place Spirituality in American Filmmaker John Sayles’ Limbo: Authenticity, inauthenticity, and modes of place engagementChapter 14: Place-Making and Religion: A solidarity psychology of the commonsChapter 15: How and Why Environmental and Religious Attachment Matters for Quality of LifeChapter 16: Defining the psychology of religion and place: A concept analysisIndex