Attachment in Religion and Spirituality

Pehr Granqvist, PhD, is Professor of Developmental Psychology at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has studied the attachment–religion connection since the mid-1990s, originally as part of his doctoral studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research in this area--as well as in the psychology of religion and the field of attachment more generally--is widely cited and recognized internationally. Dr. Granqvist is a recipient of the Margaret Gorman Early Career Award from Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association and the Godin Prize from the International Association for the Psychology of Religion, among others. In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

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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