Religion and the individual : a social-psychological perspective
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Religion and the individual : a social-psychological perspective
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Rev. ed. of: The religious experience
Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780195062083
Description
Using methods of social psychology, the authors explore the personal, rather than the institutional, perspectives of religious experience to describe this universal human behaviour in scientific terms.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780195062090
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What leads a person to become religious? What happens psychologically in a religious experience? Does religion make a person happier, more open, more psychologically healthy, more tolerant, more caring? Bold and thoughtful, this book employs social-psychological theories and research to build an understanding of the source, nature and consequences of religion in individual life. The authors' goal is to provide an integrated and coherent perspective, one that honours the diversity and mystery of individuals' experience of religion, yet is scientifically sound. Drawing on the classic psychological treatment of religion by William James, Sigmund Freud and Gordon Alloort, as well as the more recent empirical literature, the authors develop a three-dimensional model of different ways of being religious ...as a means to self-serving ends, as an end in itself, and as an open-ended quest. They explore the origins of these dimensions of personal religion, tracing them to more or less creative responses to such existential questions as: What is the meaning and purpose of my life? and How do I deal with the fact that I am going to die?
They then explore the consequences of each of the three dimensions, both for the religious individual and for others in society. Finally, building on the foregoing analysis, the authors address one of the basic questions of our age - whether relgiion is a force for good or evil in human life.
Table of Contents
1.: Toward a Social Psychology of Religion
PART I: Sources of Personal Religion
2.: Social Sources of Personal Religion
3.: Individual Development and Personal Religion
PART II: Nature of Personal Religion
4.: Religious Experience and Personal Transformation
5.: Facilitators of Religious Experience
6.: Dimensions of Personal Religion
PART III: Consequences of Personal Religion
7.: Personal Freedom or Bandage?
8.: Mental Health or Sickness
9.: Brothers-and-Sisters or Sheep-and-Goats
10.: Concern for Others or Self-Concern
PART IV: Implications
11.: Is Religion on Our Side?
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