Dissociating Psychology: Religion, Inspiration, and T. S. Eliot's Subliminal Mind

The psychology of religion.

This chapter discusses progress in the psychology of religion by highlighting its rapid growth during the past 25 years. Recent conceptual and empirical developments are described, with an emphasis on the cognitive and affective basis of religious experience within personality and social psychology. Religion and spirituality as domains of study, as well as being common and important process var...

Psychology of Religion and Culture

After a brief introduction to psychology of religion as a scientific discipline, this article reviews psychological theories that propose explanations of religion as an individual and social reality, and provides information from recent empirical literature that, at least partially, confirms these theories. The theoretical and empirical evidence presented here encompasses a variety of psycholog...

When Religion Had a Mind

ritten in 1779 by the playwright and philosopher Gotthold Lessing, Nathan the Wise http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463609019 /ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325& creativeASIN=1463609019&linkCode=as2&tag=thenewrep08!20 ranks among the most powerful arguments for religious tolerance in the entirety of the eighteenth century. Germany in the age of Enlightenment was still tre...

The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion

The following reviews recent developments in the cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion, and argues for an adaptationist stance.

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