Synthesizing diverse strands of theory and research, this compelling book explores the psychology of religion and spirituality through an innovative attachment lens. Pehr Granqvist examines the connections between early caregiving experiences, attachment patterns, and individual differences in religious cognition, experience, and behavior.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword, Phillip R. Shaver
Prologue: Setting the Stage
I. Normative Aspects of Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality
1. Normative Features of Attachment
2. God as a Noncorporeal Attachment Figure
3. Religious and Spiritual Development in Relation to Attachment Maturation
II. Individual Differences in Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality
4. Individual Differences in Attachment
5. The Correspondence Pathway
6. The Compensation Pathway
III. Expansions: A Wider View of Attachment and Religion/Spirituality
7. Religion as Attachment in Relation to Mental Health
8. Altered Spiritual States, Dissociation, and Attachment Disorganization
IV. Points of Convergence and Divergence
9. Attachment Theory and the Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Religion
10. Attachment and the Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience of Religion
V. Beyond Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality: The Psychology of Secularism
11. God versus the Welfare State
Epilogue
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