802
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Peer-Reviewed Articles

Sacred Content, Secular Context: A Generative Theory of Religion and Spirituality for Social Work

Pages 123-143 | Received 16 Apr 2011, Accepted 21 Sep 2011, Published online: 18 Jun 2013

REFERENCES

  • Anderson , W. T. ( 1995 ). The truth about the truth: De-confusing and reconstructing the postmodern world . New York , NY : Tarcher/Putnam .
  • Ashbrook , J. B. , & Albright , C. R. ( 2003 ). The humanizing brain . Cleveland , OH : Pilgrim Press .
  • Becker , E. ( 1971 ). The birth and death of meaning . New York , NY : The Free Press .
  • Becker , E. ( 1973 ). The denial of death . New York , NY : The Free Press .
  • Becker , E. ( 1974 ). Toward the merger of animal and human studies . Philosophy of the Social Sciences , 4 , 235 – 254 .
  • Becker , E. (1975). Escape from evil . New York , NY : The Free Press.
  • Berger , P. L. ( 1973 ). The homeless mind: Modernization and consciousness . New York , NY : Random House .
  • Berger , P. L. ( 1979 ). The heretical imperative: Contemporary possibilities of religious affirmation . Garden City , NJ : Anchor Books .
  • Berger , P. L. ( 1996–1997 ). Secularism in retreat . National Interest , 46 , 3 – 12 .
  • Berger , P. L. , & Luckmann , T. ( 1966 ). The social construction of reality . New York , NY : Anchor/Doubleday Books .
  • Bruce , S. ( 1992 ). Religion and modernization: Sociologists and historians debate the secularization thesis . Oxford , United Kingdom : Oxford University Press .
  • Bullis , R. K. ( 1996 ). Spirituality in social work practice . Washington , DC : Taylor & Francis .
  • Canda , E. R. , & Furman , L. D. ( 2010 ). Spiritual diversity in social work practice: The heart of helping , (2nd ed.) . New York , NY : The Free Press .
  • Cannon , D. ( 1996 ). Six ways of being religious: A framework for comparative studies of religion . Belmont , CA : Wadsworth .
  • Chaves , M. ( 1994 ). Secularization as declining religious authority . Social Forces , 72 , 749 – 774 .
  • Crisp , B. R. ( 2010 ). Beyond the seminary: New frontiers for teaching spirituality . Religious Education , 104 , 4 – 17 .
  • Csikszentmihaly , M. ( 1990 ). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience . New York , NY : Harper & Row .
  • Dechesne , M. , & Kruglanski , A. W. ( 2004 ). Terror's epistemic consequences: Existential threat and the quest for certainty and closure . In J. Greenberg , S. L. Koole , & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.), Handbook of experimental exixtential psychology , (pp. 247 – 262 ). New York , NY : The Guilford Press .
  • Demerath , N. J. ( 2001 ). Crossing the gods: World religions and worldly politics . Piscataway , NJ : Rutgers University Press .
  • Derezotes , D. S. ( 2006 ). Spiritually oriented social work practice . Boston , MA : Pearson .
  • Derezotes , D. S. ( 2009 ). Religious resurgence, human survival, and global religious social work . Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work , 28 , 63 – 81 .
  • Durkheim , E. ( 1897/1951 ). Suicide. A study in sociology . New York , NY : The Free Press .
  • Eister , A. W. ( 1974 ). Changing perspectives in the scientific study of religion . New York , NY : Wiley and Sons .
  • Fowler , J. W. ( 1981 ). Stages of faith: The psychology of human development and the quest for meaning . San Francisco , CA : Harper & Row .
  • Fukuyama , M. , & Sevig , T. ( 1999 ). Integrating spirituality into multicultural counseling . Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage .
  • Glicken , M. D. ( 2007 ). Social work in the 21st century . Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage .
  • Goldstein , D. , & Kopin , I. ( 2007 ). Evolution of concepts of stress . Stress , 10 , 109 – 120 .
  • Greenberg , J. , Pyszczynski , T. , & Solomon , S. ( 2002 ). A perilous leap from Becker's theorizing to empirical science . In D. Liechty (Ed.), Death and denial , (pp. 3 – 16 ). Westport , CT : Praeger .
  • Greenberg , J. , Pyszczynski , T. , Solomon , S. , Rosenblatt , A , Veeder , M. , Kirkland , S. , & Lyon , D. ( 1990 ). Evidence for terror management theory II: The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who threaten or bolster the cultural worldview . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 58 , 308 – 331 .
  • Iannaccone , L. , Stark , R. , & Finke , R. (1998). Rationality and the religious mind. Economic Inquiry , 36, 373–389.
  • James , W. ( 1902 ). The varieties of religious experience: A study of human nature . New York , NY : Philosophical Library .
  • Kauffman , S. ( 2008 ). Reinventing the sacred: A new view of science, reason and religion . New York , NY : Basic Books .
  • Kegan , R. ( 1983 ). The evolving self . Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Kimball , C. ( 2008 ). When religion becomes evil, revised edition . San Francisco , CA : HarperOne .
  • Kohlberg , L. ( 1981 ). The meaning and measurement of moral development . Worchester , MA : Clark University/Heinz Werner Institute .
  • Liechty , D. ( 1995 ). Transference and transcendence: Ernest Becker's contribution to psychotherapy . Northvale , NJ : Jason Aronson .
  • Liechty , D. ( 1998 ). Reaction to mortality: An interdisciplinary organizing principle for the human sciences . Zygon: The Journal of Religion & Science , 33 , 45 – 58 .
  • Liechty , D. ( 2000 ). Touching mortality, touching strength: Working with dying patients . Journal of Religion and Health , 39 , 247 – 260 .
  • Liechty , D. ( 2003 ). Reflecting on faith in a post-Christian time . Telford , PA : Cascadia .
  • Liechty , D. ( 2005 ). The Ernest Becker reader . Seattle , WA : University of Washington Press .
  • Maxwell , G. , & Demerath , N. J. ( 2003 ). Secularization by any other name . American Sociological Review , 68 , 314 – 316 .
  • McCutcheon , R. T. ( 1999 ). The insider/outsider problem in the study of religion . London , United Kingdom : Cassell .
  • McGraw , J. J. ( 2004 ). Brain and belief: An exploration of the human soul . DelMar , CA : Aegis Press .
  • Miller , G. ( 2002 ). Incorporating spirituality in counseling and psychotherapy: Theory and technique . New York , NY : Wiley and Sons .
  • National Association of Social Workers. ( 2011 ). Social justice. Retrieved from http://www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/features/issue/peace.asp
  • Newberg , A. , & D'Aquila , E. ( 2001 ). Why God won't go away . New York , NY : Ballantine Books .
  • Newberg , A. , & Waldman , M. R. ( 2007 ). Born to believe . New York , NY : Free Press .
  • Newman , M. ( 1994 ). Health as expanding consciousness . Sudbury , MA : Jones and Bartlett .
  • Newman , M. ( 1995 ). A developing discipline: Selected works of Margaret Newman . Sudbury , MA : Jones and Bartlett .
  • Newman , M. ( 2008 ). Transforming presence: The difference that nursing makes . Philadelphia , PA : F. A. Davis .
  • Piven , J. S. ( 2002 ). Transference as religious solution to the terror of death . In D. Liechty (Ed.), Death and denial , (pp. 237 – 246 ). Westport , CT : Praeger .
  • Pyszczynski , T. , Solomon , S. , & Greenberg , J. ( 2003 ). In the wake of 9/11: The psychology of terror . Washington , DC : American Psychological Association .
  • Rey , L. D. ( 1997 ). Religion as invisible culture: Knowing about and knowing with . Journal of Family Social Work , 2 , 159 – 177 .
  • Rolheiser , R. ( 2009 ). The holy longing . New York , NY : Image Books .
  • Rosenblatt , A. , Greenberg , J. , Solomon , S. , Pyszczynski , T. , & Lyon , D. (1989). Evidence for terror management theory: I. The effects of mortality salience on reactions to those who violate or uphold cultural values. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 57, 681–690.
  • Rothman , J. ( 2009 ). Spirituality: What we can teach and how we can teach it . Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work , 28 , 161 – 184 .
  • Schreurs , A. ( 2002 ). Psychotherapy and spirituality: Integrating the spiritual dimension into therapeutic practice . London , United Kingdom : Jessica Kingsley .
  • Solomon , S. , Greenberg , J. , & Pyszczynski , T. ( 1998 ). Tales from the crypt: On the role of death in life . Zygon: The Journal of Religion & Science , 33 , 9 – 44 .
  • Sperry , L. ( 2001 ). Spirituality in clinical practice: New dimensions in psychotherapy and counseling . New York , NY : Routledge .
  • Stark , R. ( 1999 ). Secularization, R.I.P . Sociology of Religion , 60 , 249 – 273 .
  • Stewart , C. ( 2009 ). The inevitable conflict between religious and social work values . Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work , 28 , 35 – 47 .
  • Streets , F. ( 2009 ). Overcoming a fear of religion in social work education . Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work , 28 , 185 – 208 .
  • Streng , F. J. ( 1976 ). Understanding religious life . Encino , CA : Dickenson .
  • Streng , F. J. , Lloyd , C. , & Allen , J. ( 1973 ). Ways of being religious: Readings for a new approach to religion . Englewood Cliffs , NJ : Prentice-Hall .
  • Sullivan , W. P. ( 2009 ). Spirituality: A road to mental health or mental illness . Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work , 28 , 84 – 98 .
  • West , W. ( 2000 ). Psychotherapy and spirituality: Crossing the line between therapy and religion . Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.