RT Article
T1 The Buddhism and Psychology Discourse: A Hermeneutic
JF Journal of global buddhism
VO 22
IS 2
SP 399
OP 420
A1 Payne, Richard K. 1949-
LA English
PB [publisher not identified]
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1801657157
AB A primary conceptual framework for Buddhism in contemporary popular religious culture is as a kind of psychology. This representation dates from the nineteenth century, when apologists took advantage of the new cultural discourse of psychology to explain Buddhism in ways that made it accessible, familiar, acceptable, and more easily incorporated into modern, religious consumerism. This essay is a hermeneutic examination of this psychologizing discourse. It describes three forms of that discourse, identified here as "interpretation of," where Buddhism is seen in psychological terms, "interpretation as," where Buddhism becomes a form of psychology, and " interpretation ," where the interpretive act is erased and Buddhism and psychology become unproblematically identical.
K1 Alan Watts
K1 C.G. Jung
K1 Rob Preece
K1 Robert Wright
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 Interpretation
K1 Psychology
K1 psychopathologizing
DO 10.5281/zenodo.4727688