Jacob A. Belzen is professor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Antoon Geels is professor of history of religion at the University of Lund (Sweden).

• Jacob A. BELZEN: Modern Means, Classic Goals: By Way of IntroductionTheoretical and Methodological ApproachesJens BROCKMEIER: Lifetime and EternityUlrike POPP-BAIER: Life Stories and Philosophies of Life: A Perspective for Research in Psychology of ReligionBarbara KELLER: Toward a Multidimensional Conception of Faith Development: Deconversion Narratives in Biographical Context Antoon GEELS: The Night is the Mother of Day: Methodological Comments on Three Cases of Religious Visions as Suicide PreventionPast and Present Religious StoriesJacob A. BELZEN: Autobiography, Psychic Functioning and Mental Health: The Role of Religion in Personal LifeKeith HAARTMAN: Methodist Ritual Mourning and the Resolution of Traumatic Grief: The Case of Richard Moss Mark FREEMAN: The Personal and Beyond: Simone Weil and the Necessity/Limits of Biography Jeffrey KRIPAL: From Paradise to Paradox: The Psychospiritual Journey of John Heider Different Religions, Different Cultures, Different StoriesAmia LIEBLICH: The Place of Religion in the Experience of War-Orphans as Constructed in their Life StoriesDan P. MCADAMS and Michelle ALBAUGH: The Redemptive Self, Generativity, and American Christians at Midlife: Explorations of the Life Stories of Evangelical and Mainline Protestants Melvin E. MILLER: Spirituality, Narrative, and Character: Two Priests on Paths to Spiritual Maturity and Integrity in Late Life Jürgen STRAUB and Maik ARNOLD: Acting as Missionaries: The Religious Self in Intercultural Practice: An Approach from Action Theory and Cultural PsychologyAfterwordRuthellen JOSSELSON: Reflections of a Narrative Researcher Notes on contributors Index

Jacob A. Belzen is professor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Antoon Geels is professor of history of religion at the University of Lund (Sweden).

• Jacob A. BELZEN: Modern Means, Classic Goals: By Way of IntroductionTheoretical and Methodological ApproachesJens BROCKMEIER: Lifetime and EternityUlrike POPP-BAIER: Life Stories and Philosophies of Life: A Perspective for Research in Psychology of ReligionBarbara KELLER: Toward a Multidimensional Conception of Faith Development: Deconversion Narratives in Biographical Context Antoon GEELS: The Night is the Mother of Day: Methodological Comments on Three Cases of Religious Visions as Suicide PreventionPast and Present Religious StoriesJacob A. BELZEN: Autobiography, Psychic Functioning and Mental Health: The Role of Religion in Personal LifeKeith HAARTMAN: Methodist Ritual Mourning and the Resolution of Traumatic Grief: The Case of Richard Moss Mark FREEMAN: The Personal and Beyond: Simone Weil and the Necessity/Limits of Biography Jeffrey KRIPAL: From Paradise to Paradox: The Psychospiritual Journey of John Heider Different Religions, Different Cultures, Different StoriesAmia LIEBLICH: The Place of Religion in the Experience of War-Orphans as Constructed in their Life StoriesDan P. MCADAMS and Michelle ALBAUGH: The Redemptive Self, Generativity, and American Christians at Midlife: Explorations of the Life Stories of Evangelical and Mainline Protestants Melvin E. MILLER: Spirituality, Narrative, and Character: Two Priests on Paths to Spiritual Maturity and Integrity in Late Life Jürgen STRAUB and Maik ARNOLD: Acting as Missionaries: The Religious Self in Intercultural Practice: An Approach from Action Theory and Cultural PsychologyAfterwordRuthellen JOSSELSON: Reflections of a Narrative Researcher Notes on contributors Index

Jacob A. Belzen is professor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Antoon Geels is professor of history of religion at the University of Lund (Sweden).

• Jacob A. BELZEN: Modern Means, Classic Goals: By Way of IntroductionTheoretical and Methodological ApproachesJens BROCKMEIER: Lifetime and EternityUlrike POPP-BAIER: Life Stories and Philosophies of Life: A Perspective for Research in Psychology of ReligionBarbara KELLER: Toward a Multidimensional Conception of Faith Development: Deconversion Narratives in Biographical Context Antoon GEELS: The Night is the Mother of Day: Methodological Comments on Three Cases of Religious Visions as Suicide PreventionPast and Present Religious StoriesJacob A. BELZEN: Autobiography, Psychic Functioning and Mental Health: The Role of Religion in Personal LifeKeith HAARTMAN: Methodist Ritual Mourning and the Resolution of Traumatic Grief: The Case of Richard Moss Mark FREEMAN: The Personal and Beyond: Simone Weil and the Necessity/Limits of Biography Jeffrey KRIPAL: From Paradise to Paradox: The Psychospiritual Journey of John Heider Different Religions, Different Cultures, Different StoriesAmia LIEBLICH: The Place of Religion in the Experience of War-Orphans as Constructed in their Life StoriesDan P. MCADAMS and Michelle ALBAUGH: The Redemptive Self, Generativity, and American Christians at Midlife: Explorations of the Life Stories of Evangelical and Mainline Protestants Melvin E. MILLER: Spirituality, Narrative, and Character: Two Priests on Paths to Spiritual Maturity and Integrity in Late Life Jürgen STRAUB and Maik ARNOLD: Acting as Missionaries: The Religious Self in Intercultural Practice: An Approach from Action Theory and Cultural PsychologyAfterwordRuthellen JOSSELSON: Reflections of a Narrative Researcher Notes on contributors Index