Confounding the divine and the spiritual: Challenges to a psychology of spirituality

Pastoral Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 161-182

  Helminiak, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Consciousness; Epistemology; Ethics; Existential psychology; Frankl, Viktor; Lonergan, Bernard; Psychology of religion; Psychology of spirituality; Spirituality: non theist, true and false, definition of, criteria of

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049099121     PISSN: 00312789     EISSN: 15736679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11089-008-0163-9     Document Type: Article

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