Hendrika Vande Kemp, in collaboration with H. Newton Malony. Psychology and Theology in Western Thought 1672–1965: A Historical and Annotated Bibliography. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1984. xiv + 367 pp. $65.00 (cloth) (Reviewed by John Gach)
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 277 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
This third volume in Bibliographies in the History of Psychology and Psychiatry: A Series under the general editorship of Robert H. Wozniak is a most welcome contribution. The two principal bibliographies of psychology and religion published prior to this, William W. Meissner's Annotated Bibliography in Religion and Psychology (New York: Academy of Religion and Mental Health, 1961) and Donald Capps et al.'s Psychology of Religion: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1976), respectively emphasize twentieth-century journal publications from about the late 1920s and English-language books and papers published after 1950. Hendrika Vande Kemp's differs from these in several important respects. First, it is a historical bibliography entirely devoted to retrospective literature. Second, it bibliographs texts intended from their inception to have a separate existence-that is, books, monographs, and pamphlets-excluding periodical articles, "except those included in the annotations on major integrative journals" (p. x). Third, by perusing the bibliographies and indexes of books known to be relevant, antiquarian book dealers' catalogs, and the United States Catalog of Books in Print along with its successor Cumulative Book Index, the compilers were able to identify many older works.
This method of allowing the books to refer the researcher to other relevant books possesses the considerable merit of permitting one to escape the circle of contemporary citation. That a text is not cited by current authors says nothing about its former impor-