Hermeneutical Approaches in Psychology of Religion

The varieties of psychology of religion: by way of introduction / J.A. Belzen -- Cause and meaning, explanation and interpretation in the psychology of religion / A. Vergote -- Inquiry into the foundations of a hermeneutical psychology--a critique of unpure reason / Th. de Boer -- The real is the relational--relational psychoanalysis as a model of human understanding / J.W. Jones -- A theory of gender as a central hermeneutic in the psychoanalysis of religion / N.R. Goldenberg -- Reconsidering the psychology of religion--hermeneutical approaches in the contexts of research and debate / K.V. O'Connor -- Cultural psychology of religion: synchronic and diachronic / J.A. Belzen -- The hermeneutics of life history--a plea for a hermeneutical psychology of religion, exemplified by the work of Erik H. Erikson / T.H. Zock -- The obsessional episode in the conversion experience of Ignatius of Loyola--a psychobiographical contribution / J. Corveleyn -- A readers guide for interpreting texts of religious experience--a hermeneutical approach / J.M. Day & M.H.L. Naedts -- Psychology of religion as hermeneutical cultural analysis--some reflections with reference to Clifford Geertz / U. Popp-Baier -- Mystical experience and interpretation--a hermeneutical approach / A. Geels -- Between mythology and symptomatology--thoughts on the psychology of symbols / J. Scharfenberg -- Symbolic experience: transforming the selfobject relation--a new symbol theory based on modern psychoanalysis / H. Wahl -- Psychoanalytic hermeneutic and sacramental theology / W.W. Meissner.