Semantics and Psychology of Spirituality A Cross Cultural Analysis 1st Edition by Heinz Streib, Ralph W Hood Jr ISBN 9783319212449 3319212443

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ISBN 10:  3319212443

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Author: Heinz Streib, Ralph W. Hood Jr.

 This book examines what people mean when they say they are “spiritual”. It looks at the semantics of “spirituality”, the visibility of reasons for “spiritual” preference in biographies, in psychological dispositions, in cultural differences between Germany and the US, and in gender differences. It also examines the kind of biographical consequences that are associated with “spirituality”. The book reports the results of an online-questionnaire filled out by 773 respondents in Germany and 1113 in the US, personal interviews with a selected group of more than 100 persons, and an experiment. Based on the data collected, it reports results that are relevant for a number of scientific and practical disciplines. It makes a contribution to the semantics of everyday religious language and to the cross-cultural study of religion and to many related fields as well, because “spirituality” is evaluated in relation to personality, mysticism, well-being, religious styles, generativity, attachment, biography and atheism. The book draws attention to the – new and ever changing – ways in which people give names to their ultimate concern and symbolize their experiences of transcendence.

Table of contents: 

1. Understanding “Spirituality”—Conceptual Considerations

2. Deconversion and “Spirituality”—Migrations in the Religious Field

3. Investigating “Spirituality”: Between Survey Data and the Study of Biographies

4. Design, Methods, and Sample Characteristics of the Bielefeld-Based Cross-Cultural Study of “Spirituality”

5. Who Is “Spiritual”?

6. Is “Spirituality” Nothing but “Religion”? An Indirect Measurement Approach

7. Semantic Differentials Open New Perspectives on the Semantic Field of “Spirituality” and “Religion”

8. “Spirituality” and “Religion”—Corpus Analysis of Subjective Definitions in the Questionnaire

9. Dimensions of “Spirituality”: The Semantics of Subjective Definitions

10. “Fuzziness” or Semantic Diversification? Insights About the Semantics of “Spirituality” in Cross-Cultural Comparison (Conclusion)

11. “Spirituality” and Mysticism

12. Personality Dimensions and Versions of “Spirituality”

13. Religious Schemata and “Spirituality”

14. Coordinates for Mapping “Spirituality”

15. The Faith Development Interview: Methodological Considerations

16. Narrative Reconstruction and Content Analysis in the Interpretation of “Spiritual” Biographical Trajectories for Case Studies

17. Mapping the Varieties of “Spiritual” Biographies

18. “…I Really Did Depend on My Faith in God During that Time … to See the Meaning in My Life.”—Religious Spiritualities

19. “Well, Not a Believer, Meaning That I Have Not Found My Ideal Faith Yet. I Am Seeking.”—Spirituality of Religious Seekers

20. “Whether These Gifts Are from God, from Buddha, from the Universe, I Do Not Care, I Do Not Care at All…”—Quilt Spiritualities

21. “Experimenting with Ideologies…”—A “More Spiritual Than Religious” Zen Buddhist

22. “…if the Universe Is Beautiful, We’re Part of that Beauty.”—A “Neither Religious nor Spiritual” Biography as Horizontal Transcendence

23. Redrawing the Map: Varieties of “Spiritual,” “Religious” and “Secular” Lives

24. Faith Development, Religious Styles, and “Spirituality”

25. Positive Adult Development and “Spirituality”: Psychological Well-Being, Generativity, and Emotional Stability

26. Religion, Spirituality, and Psychological Crisis

27. The Contribution of the Study of “Spirituality” to the Psychology of Religion: Conclusions and Future Prospects

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