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The chapter aims to show how a cultural psychological, i.e., culture-informed and culture-sensitive, approach can help to deepen our understanding of concepts relevant to the psychology of religion. To this end, it first discusses some of the problems faced when conceptualizing phenomena such as “spirituality” and “religiosity.” It will then focus on problems that have arisen from the long dominant ethnocentric view of Western scholars and political interests in the age of colonialism and imperialism. Finally, against this background and by referring to some essential features of the role of spirituality in Indian theories, it will show that critical reflection on the cultural imprint of even intellectual views, i.e., on their indigeneity, will help us to broaden our knowledge about psychological approaches to spirituality and religion.
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This page is a summary of: How India Almost Lost Its Soul: The Detrimental Effects of Ethnocentrism and Colonialism on the Psychology of Spirituality, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50869-2_10.
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