Where God and Science Meet



Praeger Publishers | ISBN: 0–275–98788–4 (set) | English | PDF | 919 Pages | Size: 6.38 MB

SERIES FOREWORD
The interface between psychology, religion, and spirituality has been of great interest to scholars for a century. In the last three decades a broadpopular appetite has developed for books which make practical sense out of the sophisticated research on these three subjects. Freud expressed an essentially deconstructive perspective on this matter and indicated that he sawthe relationship between human psychology and religion to be a destructive interaction. Jung, on the other hand, was quite sure that these three aspects of the human spirit, psychology, religion, and spirituality, were constructively and inextricably linked. Anton Boisen and Seward Hiltner derived much insight from both Freud and Jung, as well as from Adler and Reik, while pressing the matter forward with ingenious skill and illumination. Boisen and Hiltner fashioned a framework within which the quest for a sound and sensible defi nition of the interface between psychology, religion, and spirituality might best be described or expressed.1 We
are in their debt. This series of General Interest Books, so wisely urged by Greenwood Press, and particularly by its editors, Deborah Carvalko and Suzanne I. Staszak-Silva, intends to defi ne the terms and explore the interface of psychology, religion, and spirituality at the operational level of daily human experience. Each volume of the series identifi es, analyzes, describes, and evaluates the full range of issues, of both popular and professional interest, that deal with the psychological factors at play (1) in the way religion takes shape and is expressed, (2) in the way spirituality functions within human persons and shapes both religious formation and expression, and (3) in the ways that............................................