The Present Status of the Psychology of Religion
Motivations to the psychology of religion have come from numerous sources. Of these the most important are: (a) the desire for larger and more significant achievement-in religious education, for example, or the training of religious workers, or the promotion of a truer understanding and a wider symp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1922
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The journal of religion
Year: 1922, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 362-379 |
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| Summary: | Motivations to the psychology of religion have come from numerous sources. Of these the most important are: (a) the desire for larger and more significant achievement-in religious education, for example, or the training of religious workers, or the promotion of a truer understanding and a wider sympathy between differently minded individuals and groups; (b) the need of psychological analyses in connection with philosophical and historical investigations of religion and with the various problems of anthropology, sociology, and the history of culture; (c) the "feeling of wonder," as Plato called it; "the craving of our understanding to know the laws of phenomena," to use the words of Comte. These motivations likewise furnish an insight into the spirit that animates the psychology of religion and also into the nature of its tasks. Because of the wide differences that prevail, section two of the paper undertakes a survey of the sources from which religious psychologists have derived their data, of the methods and points of view they have adopted, of the conceptions of mind with which they have operated, and of their assumptions or conclusions regarding the relation of the psychology of religion to theology and philosophy. Finally, a general appraisal is offered, followed by the mention of a number of problems to which it would appear that religious psychologists should now address themselves. |
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| ISSN: | 1549-6538 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/480295 |