Psychology of Religion
An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism
A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.
Christ Returns from the Jungle
An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage.
Participation and the Mystery
A groundbreaking and hopeful new look at contemporary spirituality, transpersonal psychology, integral education, and religious diversity and pluralism.
Figuring Religions
Offers new ways of comparing features of the world’s religions.
The World's Great Wisdom
Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times.
Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care
Explores how religious understandings of death are experienced in hospice care.
Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism
Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams.
Revelations of Chance
Explores the plausibility and value of viewing synchronicity as a form of spiritual experience.
Embodied Spirituality in a Sacred World
Presents an account of human development from a depth-psychological, transpersonal perspective.
Encountering Buddhism
Practicing psychologists explore the mutual impact of Buddhist teachings and psychology in their lives and practice.
The Endtime Family
A fascinating examination of a religious counterculture group showing how it differs from mainstream society, yet is similar in other ways.
Religion and the Human Sciences
Proposes a new paradigm for interdisciplinary studies by applying the thought of Bernard Lonergan to define spirituality as the missing link between religion and theology.
Arguing About Sex
This book is about current issues in sexual morality, the Christian church, and moral argument in late modernity.
Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective
In this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles ...
All Things to All People
This book examines the Roman Catholic Church in the United States as it responds to the AIDS crisis and persons with AIDS from a critical sociological perspective using organizational theory.
Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence
This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, ...
Freud on Sublimation
This book is the only full-length treatment of the relationship between aesthetic truths and psychoanalytic discoveries—of art, artists, and a new concept of sublimation. It provides a radical and unique ...
C. G. Jung's Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity
Explores our answerability and responsibility to the world.