Psychological Perspectives and the Religious Quest Essays in Honor of Orlo Strunk Jr.

Psychological Perspectives and the Religious Quest addresses the relationship between psychology and religion from empirical, historical, clinical and theological vantage points. Historical and theoretical considerations include attention to the history of psychology of religion in the United States and issues in the assessment of religious psychopathology stemming from Freud's analysis of religion. The essays present empirical research through feminist and qualitative methodologies applied to the psychology of religion, and experimental method utilized in the investigation of intrinsic and extrinsic religion, as well as an examination of the religiosity of psychologists interested in religion. They also discuss pastoral psychology and psychotherapy from psychoanalytic perspectives, feminists perspectives, and from the vantage point of the identity, ethics and type of discourse within these interdisciplinary fields. The conclusion consists of theologically oriented considerations of the role of liturgy and narrative in the formation of the self and the impact of losing a mother at birth upon the theological worldview of a clergyman.

Carole R. Bohn, Ed.D. Executive Director, Danielsen Institute; Associate Professor of Pastoral Psychology, Boston University School of Theology Richard L. Gorsuch, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Director of Research/Evaluation, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Merle R. Jordan, Th.D. Professor Emeritus of Boston University School of Theology; Albert V. Danielsen Professor of Pastoral Psychology, Associate Professor of Pastoral Psychology, Boston University School of Theology; Director of Training, Boston Christian Counseling Center Daniel N. McIntosh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Denver John Maes, Ph.D. Consulting Psychologist; Professor Emeritus of Boston University; Professor and Former Executive Director of the Danielsen Institute at Boston University H. Newton Malony, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Director of Integration, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary Lallene J. Rector, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology of Religion and Pastoral Psychotherapy, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL; Faculty, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago Chris Schlauch, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pastoral Psychology and the Psychology of Religion. Boston University School of Theology Virginia Staudt Sexton, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of St. John's University; Professor of Psychology, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY. Bernard Spilka, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Denver G. Daniel Venable, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, Valley Psychological Center, Sacramento, CA Edward P. Wimberly, Ph.D. Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, GA