Chapter 1: The History and Current Status of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
Chapter 2: Theoretical and Epistemological Foundations
James M. Nelson and Brent D. Slife
Chapter 3: Parameters and Limitations of Current Conceptualizations
Fraser N. Watts
Chapter 4: Progress in Physics and Psychological Science Affects the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Everett L. Worthington Jr.
Chapter 5: Spiritual Development during Childhood and Adolescence
Chris J. Boyatzis
Chapter 6: Questions Left Unaddressed by Religious Familism: Are Religiousness and Spirituality Relevant to Non-traditional Families?
Annette Mahoney and Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso
Chapter 7: Models of Spiritual and Transpersonal Development
Harris Friedman, Stanley Krippner, Linda Riebel, and Chad Johnson
Chapter 8: Awakening Education: Nurturing Spirituality in K-12 School Culture
Amy L. Chapman, Lauren Foley, Jen Hebda Halliday, Karen Barth, and Lisa Miller
Chapter 9: Virtues in Positive Psychology and the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality:
Existing Overlap and Promising Possibilities
Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Richard G. Cowden, Edward B. Davis, and Julie J. Exline
Chapter 10: Personality, Spirituality, and Religion
Joshua A. Wilt, Julie J. Exline, and Eric D. Rose
Chapter 11: The Numinous Motivation Inventory (NMI): A Second-generation Measure of Spirituality
Ralph L. Piedmont
Chapter 12: Religion, Altruism, and Prosocial Behavior: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches
Elizabeth Midlarsky and Tanya Malik
Chapter 13: Spiritually Sensitive Psychotherapy: An Impending Paradigm Shift in Theory and Practice
Len Sperry
Chapter 14: Journey From a Materialist to a Postmaterialist Perspective-A Portrait
Len Sperry
Chapter 15: Honoring Religious Diversity and Universal Spirituality in Psychotherapy
P. Scott Richards
Chapter 16: Counseling and Psychotherapy Within and Across Faith Traditions
Mark R. McMinn, Megan Anna Neff, Kimberly N. Snow, and Nicholas Schollars
Chapter 17: Psychoanalysis, Psi Phenomena, and Spiritual Space: Common Ground
Ruth Rosenbaum
Chapter 18: Spiritual Aspects of Jungian Analytical Psychology: Individuation, Jung's Psychological Equivalent of a Spiritual Journey
Joseph P. Wagenseller
Chapter 19: Psychology, Meditation and the Brain Across Contemplative Traditions
Brendan D. Kelly
Chapter 20: Translation of Eastern Meditative Disciplines into Western Psychotherapy
Randye J. Semple and Sean P. Hatt
Chapter 21: Eastern Traditions, Consciousness, and Spirituality
Kartikeya C. Patel
Chapter 22: The Spirituality-Physical Health Linkage: The Key Roles of Emotions
Crystal L. Park, Jeanne M. Slattery, and Tingyi Cao
Chapter 23: Spirituality, Religion, Health, and Professional Psychology
Thomas G. Plante
Chapter 24: Spirituality and Recovery From Psychosis and Serious Mental Disorders
David Lukoff and Will Hall
Chapter 25: Transformation of Brain Function Associated With Spiritual Experience
Andrew B. Newberg
Chapter 26: Neuroimaging and Spiritual Practice
Mario Beauregard
Chapter 27: Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality
Bruce Greyson
Chapter 28: Nonlocal Consciousness and the Anthropology of Religions and Spiritual Practices
Stephan A. Schwartz
Chapter 29: Consciousness, Spirituality, and Postmaterialist Science: An Experimental and Experiential Approach
Gary E. Schwartz
Chapter 30: A Post-Materialist Human Science and Its Implications for Spiritual activism
Amit Goswami
Chapter 31: Beyond Ancient and Modern Superstitions
Dean Radin
Chapter 32: Nonlocality, Intention, and Observer Effects in Healing Studies: Laying a Foundation for the Future
Stephan Schwartz and Larry Dossey
Chapter 33: The Neuroscience of Savant Syndrome, Enlightenment, and Other Extraordinary States
Diane Marie Hennacy
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