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DEL RIO, María del R. Scharrón. Supuestos, Explicaciones y Sistemas de Creencias: Ciencia, Religión y Psicología. Rev. Puertorriq. Psicol. [online]. 2010, vol.21, pp. 85-112. ISSN 1946-2026.

It is imperative to include the spiritual dimension in our clinical and scholarly endeavors in order to meet the challenge of looking at the complexity of the human experience from a holistic perspective. The purpose of this article is to advocate for the inclusion of the spiritual dimension within psychology’s endeavors. The author questions various assumptions that have marginalized spirituality from our discipline. Science, religion, and psychology are systems of beliefs that explain aspects of human experience and that have assumptions that regulate its activities and the ways that we relate to others and to knowledge. In order to construct holistic models and complex explanations in psychology it is necessary to be open to epistemological and methodological pluralism.

Palavras-chave : religion; spirituality; epistemology; methodological pluralism.

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