Are Psychology'S Main Methods Biased against the Worldview of Many Religious People?

Autor:	Matthew Whoolery, Brent D. Slife
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	050106 general psychology & cognitive sciences 050103 clinical psychology 05 social sciences Religious studies 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Social science General Psychology Epistemology
Zdroj:	Journal of Psychology and Theology. 34:217-231
ISSN:	2328-1162 0091-6471
DOI:	10.1177/009164710603400304
Popis:	This article examines some of the more problematic aspects of recent efforts to integrate psychology and religion. Specifically, many religious people—psychology's main consumer and client—make different assumptions than many psychologists about human nature and the world. This article attempts to explicate many of these conflicting assumptions, particularly as they affect psychological methods. Therapeutic and experimental methods are frequently viewed as theologically, if not philosophically, neutral to the subject matter they are investigating. This article aims to dispel this common myth. To discover or highlight these “hidden” assumptions of traditional methods, they are first contrasted to the assumptions of interpretive practices. However, interpretive practices are themselves often viewed as theologically neutral. Consequently, psychological methods are also compared to a theistic mode of inquiry that assumes that an active God is necessary to proper investigation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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