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The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality
Postmaterial spiritual psychology posits that consciousness can contribute to the unfolding of material events and that the human brain can detect broad, non-material communications. In this regard, this emerging field of postmaterial psychology marks a stark departure from psychology's traditional assumptions about materialism, making this text particularly attractive to the current generation of students in psychology and related health and wellness disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality codifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Sections in this volume include:

- personality and social psychology factors and implications
- spiritual development and culture
- spiritual dialogue, prayer, and intention in Western mental health
- Eastern traditions and psychology
- physical health and spirituality
- positive psychology
- scientific advances and applications related to spiritual psychology

With chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology, The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality is an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. This overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.
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The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality
Postmaterial spiritual psychology posits that consciousness can contribute to the unfolding of material events and that the human brain can detect broad, non-material communications. In this regard, this emerging field of postmaterial psychology marks a stark departure from psychology's traditional assumptions about materialism, making this text particularly attractive to the current generation of students in psychology and related health and wellness disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality codifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Sections in this volume include:

- personality and social psychology factors and implications
- spiritual development and culture
- spiritual dialogue, prayer, and intention in Western mental health
- Eastern traditions and psychology
- physical health and spirituality
- positive psychology
- scientific advances and applications related to spiritual psychology

With chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology, The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality is an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. This overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.
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The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality

Overview

Postmaterial spiritual psychology posits that consciousness can contribute to the unfolding of material events and that the human brain can detect broad, non-material communications. In this regard, this emerging field of postmaterial psychology marks a stark departure from psychology's traditional assumptions about materialism, making this text particularly attractive to the current generation of students in psychology and related health and wellness disciplines.

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality codifies the leading empirical evidence in the support and application of postmaterial psychological science. Sections in this volume include:

- personality and social psychology factors and implications
- spiritual development and culture
- spiritual dialogue, prayer, and intention in Western mental health
- Eastern traditions and psychology
- physical health and spirituality
- positive psychology
- scientific advances and applications related to spiritual psychology

With chapters from leading scholars in psychology, medicine, physics, and biology, The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality is an interdisciplinary reference for a rapidly emerging approach to contemporary science. This overarching work provides both a foundation and a roadmap for what is truly a new ideological age.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199357345
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2013
Series: Oxford Library of Psychology
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 656
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lisa J. Miller, Ph.D., is Director of Clinical Psychology and Associate Professor at Columbia University Teachers College.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Lisa J. Miller

Part One: Epistemological and Ontological Assumptions in History and Culture

1. History and Current State of Research on Psychology of Religion
Ralph W. Hood Jr.

2. Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations
James M. Nelson and Brent Slife

3. Parameters and Limitations of Current Conceptualizations
Fraser N. Watts

4. Progress in Physics and Psychological Science Affects the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Everett L. Worthington Jr.

5. Complementarities in Physics and Psychology
C. Edward Richards

Part Two: Personality and Social Psychology: Universalism, Absolutism, and Relativism

6. Personality, Spirituality, and Religion
Eric D. Rose and Julie J. Exline

7. Overview and Development of a Trait-Based Measure of Numinous Constructs: the Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) Scale
Ralph L. Piedmont

8. Good and Evil in Religion: The Interpersonal Context
Christopher T. Burris and John K. Rempel

9. Religion, Altruism, and Prosocial Behavior: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches
Elizabeth Midlarsky, Anthony S. J. Mullin, and Samuel H. Barkin

Part Three: Spiritual Development, Family, and Culture

10. Spiritual Development during Childhood and Adolescence
Chris J. Boyatzis

11. Questions Left Unaddressed by Religious Familism: Is Spirituality Relevant to Non-traditional Families?
Annette Mahoney and Elizabeth J. Krumrei

12. Motherhood and Female Faith Development: Feminine Tapestry of Religion, Spirituality, Creativity, and Intuition
Carole A. Rayburn

13. Colored Spirituality: The Centrality of Spirit among Ethnic Minorities
Lillian Comas-Díaz

14. Models of Spiritual Development
Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Linda Riebel, and Chad Johnson

Part Four: Spiritual Dialogue, Prayer and Intention in Mental Health: Western Traditions Moving Forward

15. Spiritually-Sensitive Psychotherapy: An Impending Paradigm Shift in Theory and Practice
Len Sperry

16. Honoring Religious Diversity and Universal Spirituality in Psychotherapy
P. Scott Richards

17. Counseling and Psychotherapy within and across Faith Traditions
Mark R. McMinn, Kimberly N. Snow, and Justin J. Orton

18. Psychoanalysis, Psi Phenomena, and Spiritual Space: Common Ground
Ruth Rosenbaum

19. Spiritual Aspects of Jungian Analytical Psychology: Individuation; Jung's Psychological Equivalent of a Spiritual Journey
Joseph P. Wagenseller

Part Five: Mind, Awareness, and Spirituality in Mental Health: Eastern Traditions Engage Psychology

20. Contemplative Traditions and Meditation
Brendan D. Kelly

21. Translation of Eastern Meditative Disciplines into Western Psychotherapy
Randye J. Semple and Sean P. Hatt

22. Eastern Traditions, Consciousness, and Spirituality
Kartikeya C. Patel

Part Six: Physical Health, Prayer, and Spirituality

23. Spirituality, Science, and the Human Body
Wayne B. Jonas, Matt Fritts, Gail Christopher, Maeba Jonas, and Susan Jonas

24. Spirituality, Emotions, and Physical Health
Crystal L. Park and Jeanne M. Slattery

25. Spirituality, Religion, and Psychological Counseling
Thomas G. Plante

26. Spirituality and Recovery from Serious Mental Problems
David Lukoff

Part Seven: Positive Psychology and Spirituality

27. Positive Psychology and Spirituality: A Virtue-informed Approach to Well-Being
Joseph W. Ciarrocchi

28. Spirituality, Resilience, and Positive Emotions
Bruce W. Smith, J. Alexis Ortiz, Kathryn T. Wiggins, Jennifer F. Bernard, and Jeanne Dalen

29. Constructing the Connection between Spirituality, Work, and Family
Lee Joyce Richmond

30. Spirituality and Positive Youth Development
Peter L. Benson, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, and Peter C. Scales

Part Eight: The Brain and Spiritual Experience

31. Transformation of Brain Structure and Spiritual Experience
Andrew B. Newberg

32. Neuroimaging and Spiritual Practice
Mario Beauregard

33. The Psychology of Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality
Bruce Greyson

Part Nine: Postmaterial Spiritual Psychology: Scientific Advances in a Spiritual Ontology for Psychology

34. Nonlocality, Intention, and Observer Effects in Healing Studies: Laying a Foundation for the Future
Stephan Schwartz and Larry Dossey

35. Spirituality, Connection, and Healing with Intent: Reflections on Cancer Experiments on Laboratory Mice
William F. Bengston

36. Knowledge, Intention, and Matter
William A. Tiller

37. Consciousness, Spirituality, and Post-Materialist Science: An Empirical and Experiential Approach
Gary E. Schwartz

38. A Post-Materialist Human Science and Its Implications for Spiritual Activism
Amit Goswami

Part Ten: Conclusion

39. Conclusion
Lisa J. Miller
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