The Morgan Reader: A Compendium of Scholarly Papers

I have chosen to limit the following collection of essays which I have written to just the past twenty years rather than including everything I have published in journals since my first post-doctoral publication in 1972. I believe the collection of these forty articles written in the past twenty years represents the best of my research which has not, by and large, appeared in my major books but contribute to my understanding of the broad fields of counseling psychology and the philosophy and phenomenology of religion and culture. I trust that I may be allowed a certain privilege of calling this collection “The Morgan Reader” owing to my years of service in this field and in recognition that all of the essays appearing in this compendium are actually my own work. I have put this collection together in an attempt to accommodate my many students and colleagues who are interested in what I have had to say over the years but find it encumbering to search the various journals and websites for access to my essays when a single collection of the more significant articles might better serve. Enjoying, as I am, my additional time beyond the biblically allocated “three score and ten years,” I am at ease with my willingness to revel in this exercise of narcissism, itself a topic about which I have written much! This collection of essays in psychology and religion reflect my fifty years of teaching and writing in the broad field of the history and philosophy of the social sciences with special attention to the relationship between the social and behavioral sciences and the phenomenology and philosophy of religion and culture. More specifically, these essays are in the area of clinical psychotherapy and counseling psychology on the one hand and in the phenomenology and philosophy of religion and culture on the other. I have gathered these essays from the past twenty years of my academic productivity based on their relevance to the courses I now teach at the Graduate Theological Foundation and their value for establishing a contextual framework for doctoral study in the broadly defined fields of psychology and religion.