The Psychology of Religion and Place

Victor Counted, PhD, is Research Associate of the Cambridge Institute of Applied Psychology and Religion and teaches at the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia. Fraser Watts, PhD, is Visiting Professor of Psychology of Religion at the University of Lincoln, UK, Executive Secretary of the International Society of Science and Religion and Director of the Cambridge Institute for Applied Psychology and Religion at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion and Place.- Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives.- Chapter 2: Sacred Places: The presence of the past.- Chapter 3: Religion, Place, and Attachment: An evaluation of conceptual frameworks.- Chapter 4: Embodied Spirituality Following Disaster: Exploring the intersections of religious and place attachment in resilience and meaning making.- Chapter 5: The Psychology and Theology of Place: A perspective from the Judeo-Christian tradition.- Chapter 6: Pride of Place in a Religious Context: An environmental psychology and sociology perspective.- Chapter 7: Mapping the visible and invisible topographies of place and landscape through sacred mobilities.- Chapter 8: 'A Dwelling Place for Dragons': Wild places in mythology and folklore.- Chapter 9: Religious and Place Attachment: A cascade of parallel processes.- Chapter 10: God and Place as Attachment 'Figures' - A critical examination.- Part II. Empirical Applications and Practical Implications.- Chapter 11: Religion, Well-being, and Therapeutic Landscape.- Chapter 12: "To Him I Commit My Spirit": Attachment to God, the Land and the People as a Means of Dealing with Crises in Gaza Strip.- Chapter 13: Glimpses of a Place Spirituality in American Filmmaker John Sayles' Limbo: Authenticity, inauthenticity, and modes of place engagement.- Chapter 14: Place-Making and Religion: A solidarity psychology of the commons.- Chapter 15: How and Why Environmental and Religious Attachment Matters for Quality of Life.- Chapter 16: Defining the psychology of religion and place: A concept analysis.- Index.