Spirituality: Discovering and Conserving the Sacred

Abstract

Abstract G. Stanley Hall and William James would have been quite comfortable with Harold Kushner’s bold assertions about the centrality of the sacred to human experience. To these founding fathers of psychology, spiritual phenomena represented critically important topics for psychological study. Since the early part of the 20th century, however, psychologists have tended to: (a) ignore spirituality; (b) view spirituality as pathological; or (c) treat spirituality as a process that can be reduced to more basic underlying psychological, social, and physiological functions.

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