Semantics and Psychology of Spirituality

Chapter 1 Understanding “Spirituality”—Conceptual Considerations

Chapter 2 Deconversion and “Spirituality”—Migrations in the Religious Field

Chapter 3 Investigating “Spirituality”: Between Survey Data and the Study of Biographies

Chapter 4 Design, Methods, and Sample Characteristics of the Bielefeld-Based Cross-Cultural Study of “Spirituality”

Chapter 6 Is “Spirituality” Nothing but “Religion”? An Indirect Measurement Approach

Chapter 7 Semantic Differentials Open New Perspectives on the Semantic Field of “Spirituality” and “Religion”

Chapter 8 “Spirituality” and “Religion”—Corpus Analysis of Subjective Definitions in the Questionnaire

Chapter 9 Dimensions of “Spirituality”: The Semantics of Subjective Definitions

Chapter 10 “Fuzziness” or Semantic Diversification? Insights About the Semantics of “Spirituality” in Cross-Cultural Comparison (Conclusion)

Chapter 11 “Spirituality” and Mysticism

Chapter 12 Personality Dimensions and Versions of “Spirituality”

Chapter 13 Religious Schemata and “Spirituality”

Chapter 14 Coordinates for Mapping “Spirituality”

Chapter 15 The Faith Development Interview: Methodological Considerations

Chapter 16 Narrative Reconstruction and Content Analysis in the Interpretation of “Spiritual” Biographical Trajectories for Case Studies

Chapter 17 Mapping the Varieties of “Spiritual” Biographies

Chapter 18 “…I Really Did Depend on My Faith in God During that Time … to See the Meaning in My Life.”—Religious Spiritualities

Chapter 19 “Well, Not a Believer, Meaning That I Have Not Found My Ideal Faith Yet. I Am Seeking.”—Spirituality of Religious Seekers

Chapter 20 “Whether These Gifts Are from God, from Buddha, from the Universe, I Do Not Care, I Do Not Care at All…”—Quilt Spiritualities

Chapter 21 “Experimenting with Ideologies…”—A “More Spiritual Than Religious” Zen Buddhist

Chapter 22 “…if the Universe Is Beautiful, We’re Part of that Beauty.”—A “Neither Religious nor Spiritual” Biography as Horizontal Transcendence

Chapter 23 Redrawing the Map: Varieties of “Spiritual,” “Religious” and “Secular” Lives

Chapter 24 Faith Development , Religious Style s, and “Spirituality”

Chapter 25 Positive Adult Development and “Spirituality”: Psychological Well-Being , Generativity, and Emotional Stability

Chapter 26 Religion, Spirituality, and Psychological Crisis

Chapter 27 The Contribution of the Study of “Spirituality” to the Psychology of Religion: Conclusions and Future Prospects