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Book SynopsisAndy Blunden presents an immanent critique of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, the current of psychology originating from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing the roots of this theory from Goethe, Hegel and Marx, the author draws out the principles with which Vygotsky developed a theory of the mind in which the individual and their social situation form a single Gestalt, transcending the problems of mind-body dualism. Blunden follows the efforts of later members of the School to resolve outstanding problems in Vygotsky’s work. This includes a critical appropriation of Leontyev’s Activity Theory and Michael Cole’s cross-cultural research on the role of context in learning. The outcome is a concept of activity which transcends the division between individual and social domains in human sciences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I. Introduction and Historical Excursus 1. Introduction 2. Soviet Cultural Psychology (1924-) 3. Goethe’s Romantic Science 4. The Young Hegel and what drove him 5. The Phenomenology and ‘formations of consciousness’ 6. The Subject Matter of the Logic 7. Being, Essence & the Notion 8. Subjectivity and culture 9. Hegel’s Psychology and Spirit 10. Marx’s Critique of Hegel 11. Marx and the Foundations of Activity Theory 12. Marx’s Critique of Political Economy 13. Conclusions from this Historical Excursus Part II. Lev Vygotsky 14. Vygotsky’s Critique of Behaviorism 15. Vygotsky and Luria on Romantic Science 16. Vygotsky on Units and Microcosms 17. Vygotsky on Gestalt and Bildung 18. The Significance of Vygotsky’s Legacy Part III. Activity Theory 19. Activity 20. Activity as the Substance of a Science 21. Criticisms of Vygotsky’s concept of Activity 22. Leontyev’s Anatomy of Activity 23. Leontyev’s Activity Theory and Marx’s Political Economy 24. Groups as a Model of Sociality 25. Yrjö Engeström’s Model 26. Michael Cole and Cross-Cultural Psychology 27. The Results of this Immanent Critique Part IV. An Interdisciplinary Approach 28. Collaborative Projects 29. Ethics and Collaboration 30. Marx’s Critique of Political Economy and Activity Theory 31. Towards a Taxonomy of Activity 32. Collaborative Projects and Identity 33. Collaborative Projects and Agency 34. Emancipatory science 35. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Psychology of Religion in Turkey, senior and emerging Turkish scholars present critical conceptual analyses and empirical studies devoted to psychology of religion in Turkey. Part 1 consists of articles placing the psychology of religion in the historical context of an ancient culture undergoing modernization and secularization and articles devoted to conceptual themes suggesting the uniqueness of Islam among the great faith traditions. Part 2 is devoted to empirical studies of religion in the Turkish-Islamic includuing studies focused on the religious life of Turkish youth, popular religiosity, spirituality, and Muslim religious development in light of Al-Ghazzali. Part 3 is devoted to several empirical studies on a variety of social outcomes of religious commitment in Turkey.

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Book SynopsisThe Pathogenesis of Fear gathers together diverse conversations about cultural constructions of the monstrous. Interdisciplinary essays map the margins of monstrosity as follows: the cannibalistic paradox in Kleist’s late-Romantic Penthesilea; intersections of the monstrous-feminine and the new Victorian psycho-physiology of consciousness in George Eliot’s early novels; the monster-formed citizens of Dickensian and later dystopias; the killing of African Americans targeted as monstrous entities in US cities; the post-human anguish of a television zombie-world; the monstrous mutilations of a Spanish horror film; psychosocial aberration in Martin Millar’s werewolf fiction; the demonization of the Other on the war-torn streets of Ireland; Derridean devouring sovereignty. Discursively correlated with different categories of body and mind, monstrosity, these essays argue, persists in taking many forms. Contributors are Elizabeth Hollis Berry, Niculae Gheran, Sarah Harris, Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad, Michaela Marková, Kimberley McMahon Coleman, Judith Rahn, Cindy Smith and Marita Vyrgioti.Trade Review“The authors demonstrate a dazzling fluency with postmodern theory and deconstructionism, further strengthening the intellectual connections between their respective contributions.” — J. G. Matthews, Washington State University, CHOICE connect 57.1 (September 2019)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Elizabeth Hollis Berry Part 1 Subjectivity and (Ab)use of Power 1 Devotion, Divergence and Desire: Anthropophagy as a Means of Cultural Formation Judith Rahn 2 Devouring: Deconstructing Sovereignty’s Omnipotence in Jacques Derrida’s Seminar ‘The Beast and the Sovereign’ Marita Vyrgioti 3 The Monster Factory: Monsterisation of Characters in Dystopias Niculae Liviu Gheran 4 ‘She Could Devour Him If She Wanted to’: Hunger, Scopophilia, and Power in The Skin I Live In Sarah D. Harris 5 Warning! Monster Metaphors and the Urban Black Body Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad Part 2 Agency and Selfdom 6 Victorian Psychology, Monstrous Maidens, and George Eliot Elizabeth Hollis Berry 7 (De)Construction of the Monstrous in Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction Michaela Marková 8 Adolescence as Battleground for Identity Foundation: Martin Millar’s Wolf Girl Novels 149 Kimberley McMahon-Coleman 9 In The Flesh and the Administration of Posthuman Anguish Cindy Smith

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Book SynopsisTraumatic experiences with an overwhelming life-threatening feel affect numerous people’s lives. Death and disablement through accident, illness, war, family violence, natural and human-induced disaster can be experienced variously at an individual level through to whole communities and nations. Traumatic memories are intrusive and insistent but fragmented and distorted by the power of sensory information frozen in time. This volume examines the ways individuals, families, communities and nations have engaged with representations of traumas and the ethical dimensions embedded in those re-presentations. Contributors also explore the work of recovering from trauma and finding resilience through working with narrative and embodied forms such as dance and breathing. The ubiquity of trauma in human experience means that pathways to recovery differ, emerging from the way each engages with the world. Sharing, and reflecting on, the ways each copes with trauma contributes to its understanding as well as pathways to recovery and new strengths. Contributors are Svetlana Antropova, Peter Bray, Kate Burton, Mark Callaghan, Marie France Forcier, Monica Hinton, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Danielle Schaub, Zeina Tarraf and Paul Vivian.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Contributors’ Notes Introduction  Elspeth McInnes and Danielle Schaub Part 1: Representing Trauma 1 Reflections on the Wall: Artefacts and Valediction at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial  Mark Callaghan 2 The Attack: Doueiry’s Depoliticisation of Trauma in the Transposition from Literature to Film  Zeina Tarraf 3 Re–imagining Atomic Bombing and 9/11: Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows  Gen’ichiro Itakura 4 Filming Trauma: Bodiless Voice and Voiceless Body in Beckett’s Eh Joe  Svetlana Antropova 5 The Disturbance of Images  Paul Vivian Part 2: Creativity and Trauma Recovery 6 Shaping Personality through Suffering: The Transformative Writing of Pat MacEnulty  Kate Burton 7 What Enables Resilience after Traumatic Childhood Experiences?  Monica Hinton 8 Investigating the Post-Traumatic Lens in the Choreographer’s Work  Marie France Forcier 9 Reading Myself and Worlds: Coping Strategies in the Face of Cumulative Trauma  Danielle Schaub 10 Holotropic Breathwork as a Therapeutic Intervention for Survivors of Trauma: An Autoethnographic Case Study  Peter Bray

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses trauma not only from a theoretical, descriptive and therapeutic perspective, but also through the survivor as narrator, meaning maker, and presenter. By conceptualising different outlooks on trauma, exploring transfigurations in writing and art, and engaging trauma through scriptotherapy, dharma art, autoethnography, photovoice and choreography, the interdisciplinary dialogue highlights the need for rethinking and re-examining trauma, as classical treatments geared towards healing do not recognise the potential for transfiguration inherent in the trauma itself. The investigation of the fissures, disruptions and shifts after punctual traumatic events or prolonged exposure to verbal and physical abuse, illness, war, captivity, incarceration, and chemical exposure, amongst others, leads to a new understanding of the transformed self and empowering post-traumatic developments. Contributors are Peter Bray, Francesca Brencio, Mark Callaghan, M. Candace Christensen, Diedra L. Clay, Leanne Dodd, Marie France Forcier, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Linder, Elwin Susan John, Kori D. Novak, Cassie Pedersen, Danielle Schaub, Nicholas Quin Serenati, Aslı Tekinay, Tony M. Vinci and Claudio Zanini.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction – Mapping the Topography of Trauma  Danielle Schaub Part 1 Conceptualising Trauma 1 The Continuum of Trauma  Francesca Brencio and Kori D. Novak 2 Encountering Trauma ‘Too Soon’ and ‘Too Late’: Caruth, Laplanche, and the Freudian Nachträglichkeit  Cassie Pedersen 3 ‘A World of Death and Phantoms’: Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical Demands of Reading Trauma and the Fantastic in Willing Unbelief  Tony M. Vinci 4 Through the Looking-Glass: Child Sexual Abuse from the Inside-Out  Jacqueline Linder 5 Working with Addiction and Trauma: Mental Health Professionals Reflect on Their Use of Spirituality  Peter Bray Part 2 Contemplating Trauma 6 Transformative Shocks: War Trauma in David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones and Sam Shepard’s States of Shock  Asli Tekinay 7 ‘Pinned limb to limb by a ton of rocks’: Annihilation in the Face of Captivity and Torture in Alan Cumyn’s Man of Bone  Danielle Schaub 8 Writing Trauma, Writing Modern: Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone  Gen’ichiro Itakura 9 Body and Trauma in Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted  Claudio Vescia Zanini 10 ‘I Used To Be Human Once’: Trauma and Reconfigurations of the Body in Chemical Disasters  Elwin Susan John 11 Painting over the Past: Political Palimpsests in Northern Ireland and the Complexities of the ‘Whitewash’ Initiative  Mark Callaghan 12 Transcending Genre: Narrative Strategies for Creating Literary Crime Fiction as a Subset of Trauma Literature  Leanne Dodd Part 3 Engaging Trauma 13 Illness Is a Window: Reframing Leukaemia through Dharma Art  Nicholas Quin Serenati 14 Engaging Trauma Resulting from Sexual Violence through Autoethnography and Photovoice  M. Candace Christensen 15 Creating and Contextualising Trauma-Related Contemporary Choreography  Marie France Forcier 16 Eating Disorders: Traumatic Context and Interventions  Diedra L. Clay Index of Names Indexes of Terms

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Book SynopsisAlthough science was originally broadly conceptualized as a systematic, rigorous activity to produce trustworthy knowledge, psychologists adopted a single philosophy of science and strictly enforced natural science as the only proper “scientific” psychology. Qualitative research has been part of modern psychology from the beginning, but it was obscured for nearly a century as positivist epistemology came to dominate the field. Building culturally robust and intelligible theories capable of responding more effectively to complex problems faced by a rapidly changing world calls for openness in methodological diversity. Deeply rooted in a hermeneutic tradition, cultural psychology has challenged the appropriateness of seeking reductive knowledge because higher mental processes such as religious beliefs, values, and choices are bound by historical and cultural context. As greater interdisciplinary integration and methodological innovations are necessary to keep psychology of religion relevant, narrative inquiry has emerged as a promising integrative paradigm.Table of ContentsIntegrating Psychology, Religion, and Culture The Promise of Qualitative Inquiry  Jenny H. Pak Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction: History of Qualitative Inquiry, Psychology and Religion  2 The Human Sciences: A Call for Methodological Pluralism  3 Review of Qualitative Research in Psychology of Religion  4 Cultural Psychology, Religion, and Narrative Inquiry  5 Conclusion: Towards Theoretical and Methodological Diversity in American Psychology of Religion  Acknowledgements  References

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Book SynopsisThis book forms an introduction to the emerging discipline of “psychology of migration”, which is an interdisciplinary field of reflection and research, joining together diverse subfields of psychology with anthropological, sociological, demographic and historical inquiry on migration processes. The introductory chapter marks the borders of this borderline discipline, defines important notions and the subject of inquiry, and presents its main research themes together with prospective paths for the discipline’s development. The second chapter presents research methods applied in psychology of migration. Acculturation processes and their psychological analysis as well an impact on the mental health of migrants are the main topics of interest in the third chapter. The last chapter covers issues of mutual relations between religion and migration. Conclusive remarks on contemporary psychology of migration facing cultural and religious diversity in COVID-19 pandemic times are outlined, pointing at challenges the discipline will surely meet in the future.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Psychology of Migration – Crossing Borders as Seen from the Borderline (Discipline)  3 Research Methods in Psychology of Migration  4 Acculturation Processes and Mental Well-Being of Migrants as an Axis for Problem-Centered Psychology of Migration  5 A Look into the Future. Challenges for Psychology of Migration in the Context of Cultural and Religious Diversity  6 Instead of a Summation: Psychology of Migration in COVID-19 Times  Acknowledgements  References  Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary psychology is highly influenced by positivism and scientific naturalism. Psychological studies make efforts to control the variables and provide operational definitions of subjective constructs in order to reach the most concrete conclusions. Such efforts are admirable in natural sciences since they have led to a better life. But, this worldview has deprived contemporary psychology of more qualitative sources of knowledge like waḥy (revelation). The present book introduces Islamic psychology as a paradigm, which can apply waḥy knowledge and consider religious/spiritual dimensions of humans in scientific exploration. The first part discusses the possibility, foundations, and characteristics of Islamic psychology. The second part introduces research methodology in Islamic psychology. The third part reviews the Quranic theory of personality and highlights the concept of shakeleh. Finally, the fourth part presents the theories and methods of religious psychotherapy in the Islamic tradition. Each part provides introductory content for readers interested in Islamic psychology.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Abstract Keywords  1 Possibility, Foundations, and Characteristics of Islamic Psychology  2 Research Methodology in Islamic Psychology  3 Personality  4 Mental Disorders and Psychotherapy  Acknowledgments  References

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Book SynopsisAn International Review of Empirical Research on the Psychology of Fundamentalism is a sequel to Williamson (2020), who examined the sociohistorical emergence of fundamentalism and controversial conceptions of the movement that have dominated decades of empirical research in psychology. He concluded by calling for a critical review of this sizable literature, amassed from the early 20th century. In the present book, W. Paul Williamson and Sarah Demmrich respond by providing summaries and critical observations for 365 empirical studies, collected and organized from peer-reviewed journals. A summary of findings indicated that the largest share of statistical associations between study variables and fundamentalism was moderate in size, followed by those that were weak, and then by strong relationships, which were much less frequent. However, this observed pattern of relationships, particularly those characterized by moderate and especially strong associations, much reflected the findings from sexual bias studies. Finally, the authors offer critical considerations for sample selection, methodology, and theoretical applications in future fundamentalism research.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords 1. Introduction 1.1. Collection and Categorization of Studies, and Overview of Chapters 1.2. Method of Review and Evaluation 2. Construct Definitions and Measurements of Fundamentalism 2.1. Earlier Measures of Fundamentalism (1951-1990) 2.1.1. An Exceptional Early Measure of Fundamentalism 2.2. More Recent Measures of Fundamentalism (1991-2020) 2.2.1. Measures of Fundamentalism Based on General Concepts 2.2.2. Religious Fundamentalism Scale (RFS) 2.2.3. Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale (IFS) 2.2.4. Multi-Dimensional Fundamentalism Inventory (MDFI) 2.2.5. North American Protestant Fundamentalism Scale (NAPFS) 2.2.6. Moaddel-Karabenick Fundamentalism Scale (MKFS) 2.2.7. Bible Verse Selection Task (BVST) 2.3. Chapter Conclusion 3. Demographics of Fundamentalism 4. Fundamentalism Research on Cognitive Issues 4.1. Fundamentalist Beliefs and Worldview 4.1.1. Moral Beliefs 4.1.2. Worldview 4.2. Cognition Studies 4.2.1. Specific Cognition Areas 4.2.2. General Cognition Issues 4.3. Chapter Conclusion 5. Research on Lifespan and Health 5.1. Lifespan Issues 5.1.1. Development 5.1.2. Family and Marriage 5.1.3. Sexual and Gender Issues 5.1.4. Death 5.2. Health Issues 5.2.1. Mental Health 5.2.2. Physical and Spiritual Health 5.3. Chapter Conclusion 6. Personality, Social, and Reactionary Issues 6.1. Personality and Virtues 6.1.1. Authoritarianism 6.2. Social Issues 6.2.1. Criminal Justice 6.2.2. Politics 6.3. Reactionary Issues 6.3.1. Militancy and Recruitment 6.3.2. Threat 6.4. Chapter Conclusion 7. Research on Social Bias 7.1. Ethnic Bias 7.2. Sexual Bias 7.2.1. Homosexual Prejudice 7.2.2. Gender Prejudice 7.2.3. Transgender and Bisexual Prejudice 7.3. Group Bias 7.3.1. Ethnocentrism 7.3.2. Religious Prejudice 7.3.3. Ingroup/Outgroup Prejudice 7.4. Studies Reporting Composites of Social Bias 7.5. Chapter Conclusion 8. General Conclusion 8.1. Overall Findings 8.2. Sample Issues 8.3. Methodological Issues 8.3.1. Specific Methodology Considerations 8.3.2. SEM and Mediation Methods of Analysis 8.4. Theory—the Missing Link—and Closing Remarks Acknowledgments References

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Book SynopsisThis volume will be of interest to scholars examining the relationship between culture and identity, concepts of individual and group agency in multicultural settings, and the effect that our globalising world has on regional cultural systems and local communities. From Conflict to Recognition: Moving Multiculturalism Forward grew out of research presented at the 3rd Global Conference of Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging held by Inter-Disciplinary.net at Mansfield College, Oxford University in September 2009. The conference provided a platform for researchers from diverse regions of the world and a variety of fields to present their work and engage each other on the major cultural transformations and epistemological shifts occurring in the current global paradigm. A unique aspect of the volume is its dialogic structure: each author refers to the work of other authors in the book; thus forming threads through-out the work, which link what are often perceived as unrelated issues. The volume is comprised of thirteen chapters divided into four thematic sections: Rights, Culture and Recognition; Complex Stories of Identity Formation; The Interweaving of Self and Other – Being and Belonging; and Crossing Boundaries and the Language of the Aesthetic.Table of ContentsMichael Kearney: Introduction Rights, Culture and Recognition Giorgio Bertolotti: Identity, Recognition and Conflict Omid Hejazi: Two Liberal Theories of Minority Rights: Universal or Particular? Puja Kapai: The Doctrine of Substantive Equality and the Democratisation of Diversity Complex Stories of Identity Formation Michael Kearney and Setsuko Adachi: Mapping Hybrid Identities: A Matrixing Model for Transculturality Elmé Vivier: Construction of Identity in the Philosophy of Hannah Arendt Caroline Duvieusart-Déry: Reification in the Census? Multiculturalist Policies and Identity Markers in 36 Democracies Janyne Sattler: Belonging to the World: Cosmopolitanism as a Remedy against Strangeness The Interweaving of Self and Other: Being and Belonging Paul Prinsloo: Being an African: Some Queer Remarks from the Margins Na’ama Sheffi and Amir Har-Gil: Entangled in Memory: Six Variations on the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict Meghna Haldar: ‘Dirt’: A Social Mirror Crossing Boundaries and the Language of the Aesthetic Katherine Wilson: The Space of Salsa: Theory and Implications of a Global Dance Phenomenon Tina Rahimy: The Potentiality of the Faceless: A Minor Reflection of Philosophy and Cinema Stephanie-Alice Baker: Social Tragedy: Zidane’s Role in France’s Tragic Epic Index Notes on Contributors

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