Overview
- Sheds light on the intersection between psychology, religion, and place
- Explores the role of attachment in religious/spiritual experiences and the construction of meaning in spatial settings
- Considers practical applications of religion and place, including geographical politics and the commons
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This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people’s understanding of their environment. The contributors consider how understandings and experiences of religious and place connections are motivated by the need to seek and maintain contact with perceptual objects, so as to form meaningful relationship experiences. The volume is one of the first scholarly attempts to discuss the psychological links between place and religious experiences.The chapters within provide insights for understanding how people’s experiences with geographical places and the sacred serve as agencies for meaning-making, pro-social behaviour, and psychological adjustment in everyday life.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
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Empirical Applications and Practical Implications
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Victor Counted, PhD, is Research Associate of the Cambridge Institute of Applied Psychology and Religion and teaches at the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Fraser Watts, PhD, is Visiting Professor of Psychology of Religion at the University of Lincoln, UK, Executive Secretary of the International Society of Science and Religion and Director of the Cambridge Institute for Applied Psychology and Religion at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychology of Religion and Place
Book Subtitle: Emerging Perspectives
Editors: Victor Counted, Fraser Watts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28848-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28847-1Published: 13 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28850-1Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28848-8Published: 01 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 340
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Religion and Psychology, Self and Identity, Cultural Geography, Human Geography