Description: This study combines perspectives from psychoanalysis and academic psychology, from nomothetic and idiothetic research, for more depth of vision. Options for the study of lived "religion" are discussed, taking into consideration North American and European cultural contexts of religious experience.
Brief description: Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Barbara Keller works as empirical researcher in the psychology of religion at the Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion, Bielefeld University, and as practicing psychoanalyst in Cologne, Germany. She has authored and co-authored papers, books and book chapters on religious development. Combining scientific with therapeutic work as psychoanalyst in Cologne, she believes in interdisciplinarity.