Full Description
"Listed in Today's Books, Book Register as a "!!!Must Read" title.
This book is really a manual that every therapist should have, if he or she does not already have the knowledge and insight contained within its pages. ...Infinitely enjoyable"--PsycCRITIQUES Religious upbringing influences people in ways that are difficult or impossible to describe; this book provides a "window on their world." The Psychologies of Religion examines the thinking, personality, and development processes as well as specific clinical concerns of clients who are members of particular religious groups. Each contributing author brings dual expertise to their chapters, expertise about a particular religion and psychological sophistication; a look from the inside out. In addition, the book covers possible future religious development as spiritualism beings to replace institutional religion and as religious choice replaces religious constraint.
All therapists who want to understand how religious people really think will find this book helpful.
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Foreword, Robert L. Leahy, PhD
Religion for Psychotherapists: The Psychologies in Religion Versus the Psychology of Religion, Stevan L. Nielsen & E. Thomas Dowd
Bricolage: The Postmodern Eclectic (Identifying Syncretistic Religious Cosmologies), James R. Beebe
Section I: The Sacramental Traditions
Catholicism and Psychology, Kevin Gillespie
Beloved to God: An Eastern Orthodox Anthropology, Elizabeth Gassin & J. Stephen Muse
Lutherans, Christine Maguth Nezu, David E. Farley, & Arthur M. Nezu
Section II: The Mainliners
Mainline Protestants: Christian Faith in the Reflective Tradition, Donald L. Bubenzer, Amy B. Quillin, & Paul Ashby
Section III: The Outsiders
Evangelicalism, Mark A. Yarhouse & Stephen R. Russell
Conservative Christianity: A New Emerging Culture, John R. Belcher
Fundamentalism, Sara Savage
Section IV: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Psychological Models Inherent in Doctrine and Practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Dianne L. Nielsen, Daniel K. Judd, & Stevan Lars Nielsen
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
Section V: The Judaic Traditions
Liberal Judaism, Ira S. Halper & Amy Ruth Bolton
Orthodox Judaism: Features and Issues for Psychotherapy, Kate Miriam Loewenthal
Section VI: The Islamic Traditions
Psychology and Sunni Muslims, Saba Rasheed Ali
Psychology and Shia Muslims, Amina Mahmood
Section VII: The Spiritual Traditions
The Spiritualistic Tradition, Rebecca Murray & Michael E. Nielsen
The Varieties of Buddhism, Neharika Chawla & G. Alan Marlett
Religion for Psychotherapists: Summary & Commentary, E. Thomas Dowd & Stevan L. Nielsen
Index
