Place, Spirituality, and Well-Being: A Global and Multidisciplinary Approach

本書綜合了關於「場所」如何與我們的靈性和福祉深度交織的觀點。全書分為三個部分，匯集了來自全球學者在多個學科的貢獻，以揭示場所的個人、社會和文化領域如何塑造我們的靈性體驗和整體福祉。對於那些希望增進對場所、靈性和福祉之間聯繫的了解的人來說，這是一本必讀之作，同時也為未來關於場所及其與靈性和福祉交集的研究提供了基礎。

Victor Counted, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University and Faculty Affiliate of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He earned his PhD in Psychology at Western Sydney University and has a second PhD in Religion at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the science and practice of human flourishing and well-being, grounded in everyday psychosocial and psychospiritual processes, including how the interactions between people and their environments affect health and behavior.
Haywantee Ramkissoon, Ph.D., is a Professor at UniSA Business, University of South Australia, and at the College of Business, Law, and Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK, Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Centre for Innovation in Tourism, Taylor's University, Malaysia. She has also been in teaching and research roles at Monash Business School, Department of Marketing, Monash University, Australia and the Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway. Her expertise is in Sustainability Research, including Social and Environmental Psychology, Tourism, Marketing and Healthcare. She is recognised as one of the Clarivate Highly Cited Elite Group of Researchers for 2021 and 2022. She is also in Stanford list of World's top 2% most cited scientists for 2021 and 2022.
Laura E. Captari, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Danielsen Institute at Boston University. Her research explores the developmental and relational impacts of trauma, disaster, and loss, with attention to the intersections of culture, spirituality, and the mind-body connection as potential pathways to resilience and flourishing.
Richard G. Cowden, Ph.D., is a social-personality psychologist and Research Associate for the Human FlourishingProgram at Harvard University. He is broadly interested in psychological, social, and religious/spiritual dynamics that shape adaptive functioning, personal growth, and well-being. Much of his research agenda focuses on topics related to adversity (e.g., suffering), character strengths (e.g., forgiveness), and religion/spirituality (e.g., religious/spiritual struggles), and their implications for health and well-being in diverse cultures and contexts. He has written numerous scholarly articles and book chapters that address various aspects of human flourishing in a wide range of populations, and recently co-authored Place and Post-Pandemic Flourishing: Disruption, Adjustment, and Healthy Behaviors (Springer, 2021).

Victor Counted博士是雷金特大學心理學與輔導學院的副教授，以及哈佛大學人類繁榮計畫的教職夥伴。他在西悉尼大學獲得心理學博士學位，並在格羅寧根大學獲得第二個宗教博士學位。他在以日常心理社會和心理靈性過程為基礎的人類繁榮與福祉的科學與實踐方面發表了大量研究，探討人與環境之間的互動如何影響健康與行為。

Haywantee Ramkissoon博士是南澳大利亞大學UniSA商學院的教授，以及英國德比大學商業、法律與社會科學學院、南非約翰尼斯堡大學商學院和馬來西亞泰萊大學旅遊創新中心的教授。她曾在澳大利亞莫納什大學商學院市場行銷系和挪威北極大學生物科學、漁業與經濟學院擔任教學與研究職位。她的專長在於可持續性研究，包括社會與環境心理學、旅遊、行銷和醫療保健。她被認可為2021年和2022年Clarivate高被引精英研究者之一，並入選2021年和2022年史丹佛全球前2%最被引用科學家的名單。

Laura E. Captari博士是波士頓大學丹尼爾森研究所的博士後研究員。她的研究探討創傷、災難和損失的發展與關係影響，特別關注文化、靈性和身心連結的交集，作為韌性與繁榮的潛在途徑。

Richard G. Cowden博士是社會人格心理學家，並擔任哈佛大學人類繁榮計畫的研究助理。他廣泛關注塑造適應性功能、個人成長和福祉的心理、社會和宗教/靈性動態。他的研究議程主要集中在與逆境（例如：痛苦）、品格優勢（例如：寬恕）和宗教/靈性（例如：宗教/靈性掙扎）相關的主題，以及這些主題在不同文化和背景下對健康與福祉的影響。他撰寫了多篇學術文章和書籍章節，探討各種族群中人類繁榮的不同面向，並最近共同撰寫了《地點與後疫情繁榮：擾動、調整與健康行為》（Springer, 2021）。