Writing has long been my chosen therapy. It is a life depicted in these pages and thus far characterised and shaped in part by a debilitating speech impediment, a troubled relationship with my father, the loss of my mother early in my adult life, being an overly moribund obsessive, and bestowed with the blessing of being a father of a Special Needs child.
Religion and Psychology is a thorough and incisive survey of the current relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. This is an essential resource for students and researchers in the area of psychology of religion. Issues addressed * The Psychology-Theology Dialogue* The Psychology-Comparativist Dialogue* Psychology, Religion and Gender Studies* Psychology "as" Religion* Social Scientific Approaches to the Psychology of Religion* The Empirical Approach* International Perspectives