How a Research Collaboration Informs Integrative Practice
Spiritual Care in Psychological Suffering: How a Research Collaboration Informs Integrative Practice highlights spiritually integrative research and demonstrates the evolution of a national partnership of psychologists and chaplains collaborating for optimal results. Interdisciplinary teams are the gold standard in spiritual care provision, and ......
Yoga is a popular and beneficial evidence-based health practice. This book addresses the origins, explores yoga's evolution, and outlines current scientific research as well as contemporary discussions related to the possibilities as well as the politicization of this ancient Indian practice.
How the Early Religious Development of Famous Psychologists Influenced t
This book demonstrates how the early religious development of several famous psychologists impacted their lives and work. It shows how this often-overlooked influence is present in both explicit and indirect ways in the thoughts and actions of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers.
Examining the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, this book traces the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority. It explores how diverse culture and regional settings influence major disputes over scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies of the Medieval world.
New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God
The Trauma of Doctrine investigates the difficult relationship between traumatic experiences, maximalist religious beliefs, and the experience of God. The book highlights the dynamic and conflictive interplay between the timeless realities of abuse, divine control, and the psychology of religious participation.
Beginning with the most general and moving to focused topics, this work provides a rationale for continuing to engage the Old Testament in the modern world. Combining his research strengths in the literary history of Israel, form criticism, and tradition history with the history of religions, this volume covers narrative, prophecy, and the Psalms. ......
This second, expanded edition of Arthur Peacocke's seminal work now includes the author's Gifford Lectures, as well as a new part three, in which he deals roundly with the central corpus of Christian belief for a scientific age. "Distinctively theological commitments are being rethought in light of scientific apprehensions of nature".--Ted Peters, ......
While drawing on authentic Islamic texts and primary books in mainstream psychology, this book introduces a new school of thought where religion, philosophy, mysticism and psychology intersect and create an integrative approach in understanding the human mind and human behavior.