Overview
- Presents theory and research on psychological process implicit in spiritual experiences from an indigenous perspective
- Examines the impact of colonization and globalization on local psychologies and spiritualities
- Explores a range of methodological approaches including phenomenological and quantitative instrumentation
- Provides a range of examples of psychologies and spiritualities shaped by local culture
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology (PASIP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Deconstruction and Reconstruction
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Methodologies Reconsidered
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Indigenous Psychologies of Religion
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Indigenous Psychology
- Pastoral Psychology
- Cross-cultural Spirituality
- Global Spiritual Experiences
- Local Psychologies
- Local Spiritualities
- Indigenous Communities
- Colonization
- Decolonization
- Indigeneity
- Religious Experience
- Aboriginal Spirituality
- Reconciliation
- Psychology of Religion
- Folk Psychologies
About this book
This book presents cutting-edge research and theory in the emerging field of the indigenous psychology of religion. Its authors examine the influence of colonization and illustrate the use of novel research methodologies utilised in studies with communities in India, Korea, China, Indonesia, America, and Poland. Whereas Western psychology has traditionally viewed religion through an institutional lens and from a Euro-American perspective, this book aims to facilitate an understanding of indigenous spiritualities on their own terms and from the indigenous people’s lived experience.
In doing so, the contributors seek to support indigenous communities in the recovery of their voice, original vision, and ancient practices, and to follow their yearning as echoed in T. S. Eliot’s words: “In my beginning is my end.” The book is replete with examples of this recovery of indigeneity in, for example, Chinese notions of harmony and resilience; cultural differences in hearing the voice of the divine; the influence of animism on Christians in Korea; and in savoring the bereavement of loved ones.
This novel collection presents fresh insights for students and scholars of the psychology of religion, indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and anthropology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Alvin Dueck is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Psychologies at the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, USA. His previous books include Between Jerusalem and Athens: Ethics, Psychotherapy and Culture (1995); and A Peaceable Psychology (2009). With grants from the Sir John Templeton Foundation he supported research in cultural psychology of religion in China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indigenous Psychology of Spirituality
Book Subtitle: In My Beginning is My End
Editors: Alvin Dueck
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50869-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50868-5Published: 02 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50871-5Published: 03 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50869-2Published: 01 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4692
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4706
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 326
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Religion and Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Spirituality, Philosophy of Religion