"A Spiritual Renaissance of Psychological Science has arrived: an explosion of rigorously derived, foundationally new models of human experience. In sum, the vision of psychological science in the Second Edition of the OUP Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality advances psychological research...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Miller, Lisa J. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Oxford University Press [2024]
Ausgabe:	Second editon
Schriftenreihe:	Oxford library of psychology
Schlagworte:	Spiritualität Religionspsychologie Psychology, Religious
Zusammenfassung:	"A Spiritual Renaissance of Psychological Science has arrived: an explosion of rigorously derived, foundationally new models of human experience. In sum, the vision of psychological science in the Second Edition of the OUP Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality advances psychological research beyond twentieth century radical materialism and mechanism, to inform the rapidly evolving spiritually oriented global Zeitgeist that surrounds academia. In the First Edition of the OUP Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality leading researchers asserted a foundational new paradigm of spirituality and psychology, based upon an ontology that holds consciousness as primary, termed post-materialism. The most recent decade has spawned scholarly societies such as Academy for the Advancement of Post-Material Science and Open Sciences catalysing energetic collaboration, inquiry and discovery; engaging scientists to expand our understanding of the inherent spiritual nature of humanity and revolutionize our understanding of the human psyche. Studies reported in this volume, in design, data analysis and interpretation reveal a scientific migration from the conceiving of the "hermetic human," quite reflective of anthropocentric solipsism (as in 20th Century psychology), to a view of the "open-system human," ontologically existing as part of a surrounding field of consciousness, information, love and intention. Reported MRI studies in this volume explore consciousness not as epiphenomenal of the brain, nor as secondary to the foundational material brain, but as existing both independently and as existent broadly in and through mind, brain, human biology and all life. Some of the scholars in this volume show a radical shift for science in acknowledging a central "Source of consciousness," understood as a Higher Power, G-d, a generative intelligence in the universe. Known by many names to the world religious, wisdom and cultural traditions, here scientists observe a site line once found exclusively through religion through the lens of science. Post-materialism reorients clinical conceptualization, the goals and method of psychotherapy. In the Second Edition, several clinical scientists take spiritual awareness as core to mental health, whole person development and human biology. Psychological healing is part and parcel of spiritual growth and expanding human awareness. Absent in this volume is the vestige of monolithic pathologizing of transcendent perception and of suffering per se. Through this new lens, humans suffer when we limit our awareness, shut down perception of our connection with the fullness of existence.
Beschreibung:	Revised edition of the author's The Oxford handbook of psychology and spirituality, c2012 Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xi, 834 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780190905538