Thinking Outside of the Box in the Psychology of Religion

This volume honors the work of Pierre-Yves Brandt, who occupied the chair of psychology of religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Lausanne for many years. It brings together contributions of friends and colleagues of Pierre-Yves, as well as his own contribution, that were presented at a colloquium in his honor on 9th–10th May 2025 at the University of Lausanne. “Thinking Outside the Box”, is not merely a metaphor for creative thinking in general. It reflects a deliberate editorial choice and an intellectual wager: that the psychology of religion benefits not only from rigorous theoretical consolidation but also from the willingness to venture beyond its established conventions – disciplinary, methodological, geographic, and thematic.