Western Cultural Psychology of Religion: Alternatives to Ideology

This essay is an extended reflection on Belzen's (2010) groundbreaking book Towards Cultural Psychology of Religion: Principles, Approaches, Applications. We will critically examine the terms culture, psychology, and religion separately and in relation to each other. The question we address is...

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Main Author: Dueck, Alvin C. 1943- (Author)
Contributors: Ansloos, Jeffrey (Other) ; Johnson, Austin (Other) ; Fort, Christin (Other) ; Belzen, J. A. van 1959- (Bibliographic antecedent)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science Business Media B. V. [2017]
In: Pastoral psychology
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 397-425
Review of:Towards cultural psychology of religion (Dordrecht : Springer, 2010) (Dueck, Alvin C.)
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
CD Christianity and Culture
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Book review
B Indigenous psychologies
B Ideology
B Western Religion
B Cultural psychology of religion
B Pastoral Psychology
B RELIGIOUS psychology
B Self-consciousness (Awareness)
B Colonization
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