Autobiography and the psychological study of religious lives
Geels, Antoon LU and Belzen, Jacob A. (2008) In International Series in the Psychology of Religion 15.- Abstract
- This volume positions itself on the cutting edge of two fields in psychology that enjoy rapidly increasing attention: both the study of human lives and some core domains of such lives as religion and spirituality are high on the agenda of current research and teaching. Biographies and autobiographies are being approached in new ways and have become central to the study of human lives as an object of research and a preferred method for obtaining uniique data about subjective human experiences. Ever since the beginning of the psychology of religion, autobiographies have also been pointed out as an important source of information about psychic processes involved in religiosity. In this volume, a number of leading theoreticians and researchers... (More)
- This volume positions itself on the cutting edge of two fields in psychology that enjoy rapidly increasing attention: both the study of human lives and some core domains of such lives as religion and spirituality are high on the agenda of current research and teaching. Biographies and autobiographies are being approached in new ways and have become central to the study of human lives as an object of research and a preferred method for obtaining uniique data about subjective human experiences. Ever since the beginning of the psychology of religion, autobiographies have also been pointed out as an important source of information about psychic processes involved in religiosity. In this volume, a number of leading theoreticians and researchers from Europe and the USA try to bring them back to this field by drawing on new insights and latest developments in psychological theory. (Less)
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- Geels, Antoon LU and Belzen, Jacob A.
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- publishing date
- 2008
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- mysticism., spirituality, psychology of religion, Biography, autobiography
- in
- International Series in the Psychology of Religion
- volume
- 15
- pages
- 388 pages
- publisher
- Rodopi
- ISBN
- 978-90-420-2568-4
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (015017000)
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