Attachment in Religion and Spirituality

Prologue: Setting the Stage I. Normative Aspects of Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality 1. Normative Features of Attachment 2. God as a Noncorporeal Attachment Figure 3. Religious and Spiritual Development in Relation to Attachment Maturation II. Individual Differences in Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality 4. Individual Differences in Attachment 5. The Correspondence Pathway 6. The Compensation Pathway III. Expansions: A Wider View of Attachment and Religion/Spirituality 7. Religion as Attachment in Relation to Mental Health 8. Altered Spiritual States, Dissociation, and Attachment Disorganization IV. Points of Convergence and Divergence 9. Attachment Theory and the Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Religion 10. Attachment and the Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience of Religion V. Beyond Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality: The Psychology of Secularism 11. God versus the Welfare State Epilogue Playlist