Sentences with phrase «of psychology of religion»

It leaves out so much of the psychology of religion and self - transcendence.

Ever since William James contrasted the religion of the «healthy minded» and that of the «sick soul,» (See The Varieties of Religious Experience) students of psychology of religion have wrestled with the distinguishing characteristics of health - giving and health - depleting forms of religion.

The socio - historical approach had always been pursued in continuity with empirical inquiries into human beings and religious experience, and the early Chicago school was quite open to the new discipline of psychology of religion and its relevance to religious education.

Thus he helped to lay the foundation of the contemporary discipline of psychology of religion, an essential resource in counseling on spiritual issues.

Though in the past decades there has been an appreciable cooling off of the fervor displayed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the advocates of the psychology of religion, still today the various schools of depth - psychology and psychoanalysis offer clues to the understanding of the unconscious and its workings.

Not exact matches

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

There's well over a century of research on how religions originate, function in society and the individual psychology involved.

I mean, I'm all for (creationism) in philosophy class, history of religion class, human psychology class,» but bring it into science class, and Nye gets upset.

Six years before that, Paul Vitz had made a similar point in Psychology as Religion: psychology, he wrote, had become a substitute for faith» a new religion encouraging a cult of self Psychology as Religion: psychology, he wrote, had become a substitute for faith» a new religion encouraging a cult of self psychology, he wrote, had become a substitute for faith» a new religion encouraging a cult of self - worship.

theo I have studied religions and the psychology of religious and other beliefs for over forty years.

They publish articles fairly frequently on religion, spirituality and a lot of psychology topics.

I received a faculty appointment in Psychology of Religion in the medical school to train medical students and MD residents in psychiatry to broaden their understanding of spirituality and religion in their patients.

Some anti-atheist dissenters have tried to introduce more sympathetic models of motivation — Marcel Eliade in comparative religion and Paul Vitz in psychology, for example — but the anti-religious methodology is hard to avoid.

The Emmanuel Movement was the first organized attempt to apply the joint resources of psychology and religion to the problem of alcoholism.

The Emmanuel approach achieved an integration of the healing resources of medicine, psychology, social work, and religion.

For while, to the popular mind, natural selection conveyed a sanctioning of competitiveness and assertiveness in the interest of survival, to the more specialized mind in psychology and sociology and in the study of religion, it revealed the decisive role of environment and the importance of functional adaptation.

Here was the first pioneering attempt to treat alcoholism with a combination of individual and group therapy, the first attempt to combine the resources of depth psychology and religion in a systematic therapeutic endeavor.

Resistance to religion is based on an ineluctable fact of human psychology to which he returns again and again: No one sins without making some excuse to himself for sinning.

So this professor of religion, this scholar (as she insists on calling me), must call on whatever anthropology, sociology and psychology — yes, most of all, psychology — have taught me about absolutism and conformity and fanaticism.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

It is less inclined toward the psychology of religion or the sociology of religion than toward the theology of personhood and the theology of society.

too true; you're right, we are holistic people in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory, religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many others are all so inextricably intertwined with each other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)

The psychology of religion studied adolescent conversions before it asked why the psychologist left fundamentalism and became a Quaker, an Episcopalian, or a Unitarian.

Psychology can serve many good purposes, Rieff wrote, but it must not be allowed to become a therapeutic ideology that aspires, like religion or morality, to order the entirety of human life.

By and large, music journalists aren't religious people, and, if the philosopher Max Scheler is to be believed, the non-religious are as able to describe the psychology of religion «as a person totally blind is able to describe the sensation and mood produced by vivid colors.»

This question opens up problems of personal biography which can be approached from the perspectives of education, psychology, sociology, philosophical anthropology, and religion.

While Becker probably overstates the case when he claims that the unity of aim of religion and psychology has brought clergymen and psychiatrists «into a contiguity and interlacing of work where it is no longer possible to distinguish neatly the psychologist from his religious colleague,» (Russell J. Becker, «Links Between Psychology and Religion,» American Psychologist, 1958, 13, pp. psychology has brought clergymen and psychiatrists «into a contiguity and interlacing of work where it is no longer possible to distinguish neatly the psychologist from his religious colleague,» (Russell J. Becker, «Links Between Psychology and Religion,» American Psychologist, 1958, 13, pp. Psychology and Religion,» American Psychologist, 1958, 13, pp. 566 - 68.)

The social gospel in synthesis with the psychology of religion had made it possible for the various pastoral functions to have coherence.

This left the way clear for such early pioneers of religious psychology as John Trenchard to uncover the supposed pathological origins of religion in the soul while still appearing to be on the side of «God» (properly understood).

Conversely Berger does not believe that religion can be reduced to psychology, sociology, or economics or merely some system of ethics.

For a competent handling of subjects which pertain to the domain of psychology, sociology of religion etc., a solid grounding in methodology and, generally, an acquaintance with the results of scholarship in the respective field has to be expected.

The endless variety of phenomena that history, psychology, and sociology of religion provide must be organized.

Kaplan read widely in the fields of sociology, anthropology, psychology, and comparative religion, and kept abreast of advances in liberal Protestant as well as Jewish thought.

courses in the curriculum — especially the saturation of home economics courses with pop humanistic psychology — constitute the «establishment of religion» forbidden by the Constitution's First Amendment.

Children have their «just rights» within a family, and excessive domination by their parents is neither good psychology nor good religion; yet the undisciplined child suffers severely from his lack of restraint, and without some coercion there can be no «harmonious relation of life to life.»

Urging clergy and men of religion to renew or revive the practice of prayer, particularly meditation; (2) Distinguishing between the use of alcohol which does not produce a chronic alcoholic and that in which there is «the allergic nature of true alcoholism»; (3) Stressing that «elimination of the phenomenon of craving that follows the treatment does not constitute a cure [but that] the final cure rests with themselves [alcoholics in the second phase of alcoholism]»; (4) Advocating «moral psychology» in achieving entire recovery from alcoholism; (5) Describing the success of the AA.

It is apparent, however, that there are many phenomena in the realms of intelligence, affection, aesthetics, psychology and religion that defy and deny the materialistic explanation.

In the psychologies and in the philosophies of religion, we find the authors attempting to specify just what entity it is.

Although the results of the studies in the psychology and philosophy of religion have not yet led to unanimous agreement among the scholars, the present - day knowledge of the place of religion in human experience is firmer than ever before.

He has done systematic theology, historical theology, the philosophy of religion, and maybe even the sociology and the psychology of religion.

Any adequate discussion of the theme of love of God and neighbor and of its relevance to Church and school requires all the resources of the theological curriculum from study of the Scriptures through systematic theology, the philosophy, psychology and history of religion, Christian and social ethics to pastoral theology, Christian education and homiletics.

It is impossible to achieve more than superficial correlation of studies in the history and philosophy of religion, in psychology and sociology, with the older disciplines, unless the relations of the Church to religion in general, to the particular religions and to secular culture have been intelligibly defined.

We hear speech that is of the «religion and» variety: religion and art, religion and ethics, religion and politics, religion and psychology.

We may teach pastoral care, pastoral counseling, pastoral psychology, pastoral theology, practical theology, religion and psychology, psychology of religion, religion and personality or religion and culture.

I would add thou, that «Crutches» are a GOOD useful thing, and we atheists should try and develop a better understand of the psychology need that religion fills, and try and offer our own brand of «crutch» to those mentally hurting.

A simple read of basic western psychology and the non-mystical aspects of non-Christian religions of the east reveal that the illusion of control is a stifling activity.

Jesuits are conscious of a displacement of religion by psychology and of a move from the apostolic to the therapeutic understanding of the religious life.

Continuing the author's study in the psychology of applied religion, the now discontinued Emmanuel Movement had many elements of theory and practice worth emulating.

As a theory, radical empiricism had been established as pragmatically workable and true through his own writings on psychology, philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

I have put the case here as strongly as possible because it is a great danger to the concerns both of religion and of psychology to give a glib and simple interpretation of their relationship.