Christian Psychology in Russia: its «History» and «Geography». The Second Article: Marking the Field

Abstract

In 1990, when after decades of atheistic press Russian psychology was able to return back to discussions on religious problems, a lot of debates broke out concerning the possibility of «Christian psychology». The debates still continue to burst out, while during the past quarter of century Christian psychology grew into a whole variety of different researches, educational programs, psychological services. A demand of methodological reflection of this field, of its «history» and «geography» arose. Specifically, on the one hand, a need in reflection of its developmental stages, and on the other, a map of the subject- thematical regions and methodological approaches in it. The first article of this research was dedicated to an attempt of making periodization of Russian Christian psychology history. The subject of current article is not time but space. An attempt of making a trial typologization of different projects in the field of Christian psychology is held. A «geographical» thesis concerning the marking of the Christian psychology field into several zones, each of which refer to one or another type of project, is proposed.

Keywords

• Christian psychology
• constituting
• the field of Christian psychology
• soul
• psyche
• secularism
• ascetics