Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures

Chapter 1. Introduction. Positive Psychology of Religion across Traditions and Beliefs; Chu Kim-Prieto

Part I: Positive Psychology within the Context of Specific Religions

Chapter 2. Virtues that Transcend: Positive Psychology in Jewish Texts and Tradition; Eliezer Schnall, Mark Schiffman and Aaron Cherniak

Chapter 3. The Contributions of Christian Perspectives and Practices to Positive Psychology; Everett L. Worthington Jr., Caroline R. Lavelock, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, Charlotte van Oyen Witvliet, Brandon J. Griffin, Chelsea L. Greer, David J. Jennings II, Yin Lin, Kayla Jordan, and Man Yee Ho

Chapter 4. Religiosity and Well-Being in Muslim Context; Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek

Chapter 5. Fostering Meaning, Social Connection and Well-Being through Hindu Beliefs and Practices; Maia Young and Rakesh Sarin

Chapter 6. Sikhism and Positive Psychology; Muninder K. Ahluwalia, Anna Flores Locke, and Steven Hylton

Chapter 7. Buddhism and Positive Psychology; Julia L. Cassaniti

Chapter 8. American Indian Traditional Ways: Convergence and Divergence with Positive Psychology; Leah Rouse Arndt

Part II. Variations in the Paths to Positivity and Religiosity

Chapter 9. Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being: An International Perspective; Louis Tay, Miao Li, David Myers and Ed Diener

Chapter 10. Religious/ Spiritual Meaning Systems: Multiple Pathways to Well-Being; Crystal L. Park and Amy Hale-Smith

Chapter 11. Mindfulness, Consciousness, Spirituality, and Well-Being; Emily L.B. Lykins

Chapter 12. Mind-Body Practices and the Neuro-Psychology of Well-Being; P.L. Gerbarg, L. Gootjes and R.P. Brown

Chapter 13. Religion, Emotion Regulation, and Well-Being; Allon Vishkin, Yochanan Bigman, and Maya Tamir

Chapter 14. Humility and Religion: Benefits, Difficulties, and a Model of Religious Tolerance; Elissa Woodruff, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, Stacey McElroy, Don E. Davis, and Joshua N. Hook

Chapter 15. Gratitude and Spirituality: A Review of Theory and

Chu Kim-Prieto, PhD specializes in Cross-Cultural Psychology and is a professor of psychology at The College of New Jersey. Her research focuses on subjective well-being across cultures, with special emphasis on emotion and religion. Her research on happiness, cross-cultural psychology of emotion, psychology of religion and spirituality has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Happiness and is a former Editorial Board member of the journal Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.