Abstract
Indigenous psychology of religion/spirituality is a response to the historical backdrop of colonization that imposed on indigenous peoples a culture of neoliberalism that had shaped Western psychology and Western religions. We propose that an indigenous psychology of spirituality makes two assumptions. First, instead of viewing indigenous spiritualties through the Western lens of “religion,” local spiritual practices will provide the external markers of the spiritual tradition. Second, a tradition-sensitive approach would not take modern psychologies as its point of departure but would elucidate the folk psychology that governs the indigenous person’s sense of identity. Addressing the issues of colonization, decolonization, and indigeneity will thus constitute necessary prolegomena for the development of indigenous psychologies of spirituality.
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Dueck, A., Marossy, M. (2021). Prolegomena for the Development of Indigenous Psychologies of Spirituality: Colonization, Decolonization, and Indigeneity. In: Dueck, A. (eds) Indigenous Psychology of Spirituality. Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50869-2_2
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