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Taking Psychoanalytic and Psychometric Perspectives toward a Binocular Vision of Religion
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Psychoanalytic and Psychometric Perspectives on Religion suggests to combine perspectives from psychoanalysis and academic psychology, from nomothetic and idiothetic research, for more depth of vision for the current psychology of religion.
In this interdisciplinary study, Barbara Keller demonstrates the potential of integrative perspectives by analysing topics such as religious development, religion and personality, and the process of working with religious issues in psychotherapy. Options for the study of lived “religion” are discussed, taking into consideration North American and European contexts of religious experience and of psychological and psychoanalytic discussion.
In this interdisciplinary study, Barbara Keller demonstrates the potential of integrative perspectives by analysing topics such as religious development, religion and personality, and the process of working with religious issues in psychotherapy. Options for the study of lived “religion” are discussed, taking into consideration North American and European contexts of religious experience and of psychological and psychoanalytic discussion.
Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Barbara Keller works as empirical researcher in the psychology of religion at the Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion, Bielefeld University, and as practicing psychoanalyst in Cologne, Germany. She has authored and co-authored papers, books and book chapters on religious development. Combining scientific with therapeutic work as psychoanalyst in Cologne, she believes in interdisciplinarity.
Taking Psychoanalytic and Psychometric Perspectives toward a Binocular Vision of Religion
Barbara Keller
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1 Toward a Binocular Vision of Religion
2 What Develops in Religious Development?
3 Differential Perspectives
4 Religion and Faith “in Treatment”
5 Conclusions: The Value of Complementary Perspectives
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Scholars and students interested in an innovative interdisciplinary perspective on the study of religion and worldviews utilizing psychological and psychoanalytic approaches as well as idiothetic and nomothetic research.