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Culture, Personality, and the Psychology of Religion
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Culture and personality are deeply related. Gerard Saucier articulates their interface, and new insights regarding the psychology of religion and spirituality. Rather than making assumptions of cultural homogeneity that promote stereotyping, Gerard Saucier applies a distributive model of culture which assumes heterogeneity, linking the otherwise separate compartments of culture and personality. Personality variation maps cultural non-uniformity, but variation in mindset (attitudes, beliefs, values) does so more directly. Studies of isms concepts embedded in natural language demonstrate that matters of religion and spirituality make up a substantial fraction of culture-relevant mindset, and empirical evidence shows these have a large effect-size contribution to cultural differences between nations around the globe. This book will be of much interest to specialists and (post-graduate) graduate students interested in culture, personality, and religion or spirituality.
Gerard Saucier, Ph.D. (1991), University of Oregon, is Professor of Psychology at that university. He has published numerous articles on personality, cross-cultural psychology, assessment, psychological situations, political and religious attitudes, and mindsets associated with sociopolitical violence.
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1 Preamble
2 Definitions
3 Culture and Personality Structure
4 Mindset and Culture
5 Variants of the DMC (Distributive Model of Culture)
6 The Utility of a Distributive Model of Culture
7 Distributive Models of Ideology and Religion
8 Culture and Personality Recap
9 Ideology and Worldview from Standpoint of Culture, Personality, and a DMC
10 The First Isms Study Method
11 The Second Isms Study
12 Evidence on Spirituality without Religiousness
13 Cross-cultural Differences in a Global Survey of World Views
14 Enduring- and Evolving-order Societies, and Their Meaning and Material Regimes
15 Further Domains of Culture
16 Religion (and Spirituality) as Culture and Personality: Further Synthesis
17 The Matter of Mysticism and Morality
18 Culture, Personality, and Religion – Summarily Integrated
19 Epilogue on Future Directions
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Keywords
1 Preamble
2 Definitions
3 Culture and Personality Structure
4 Mindset and Culture
5 Variants of the DMC (Distributive Model of Culture)
6 The Utility of a Distributive Model of Culture
7 Distributive Models of Ideology and Religion
8 Culture and Personality Recap
9 Ideology and Worldview from Standpoint of Culture, Personality, and a DMC
10 The First Isms Study Method
11 The Second Isms Study
12 Evidence on Spirituality without Religiousness
13 Cross-cultural Differences in a Global Survey of World Views
14 Enduring- and Evolving-order Societies, and Their Meaning and Material Regimes
15 Further Domains of Culture
16 Religion (and Spirituality) as Culture and Personality: Further Synthesis
17 The Matter of Mysticism and Morality
18 Culture, Personality, and Religion – Summarily Integrated
19 Epilogue on Future Directions
References
Index
Specialists, post-graduate and undergraduate students, and the academic libraries that serve them, who are interested in culture, personality, and religion or spirituality – any two or more of these subjects.