Attachment in Religion and Spirituality: A Wider View (Hardcover)

Prologue: Setting the StageI. Normative Aspects of Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality1. Normative Features of Attachment2. God as a Noncorporeal Attachment Figure3. Religious and Spiritual Development in Relation to Attachment MaturationII. Individual Differences in Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality4. Individual Differences in Attachment5. The Correspondence Pathway6. The Compensation PathwayIII. Expansions: A Wider View of Attachment and Religion/Spirituality7. Religion as Attachment in Relation to Mental Health8. Altered Spiritual States, Dissociation, and Attachment DisorganizationIV. Points of Convergence and Divergence9. Attachment Theory and the Psychology and Psychoanalysis of Religion10. Attachment and the Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience of ReligionV. Beyond Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality: The Psychology of Secularism11. God versus the Welfare StateEpilogue