The psychology of religion
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| The psychology of religion |
This work is intended primarily as a handbook for beginners in the psychological analysis of religion. The foremost concern, therefore has been to make clear the nature of the problems, the kinds of data, the methods of research, and the achieved results.
The justification for attempting such a handbook lies partly in the inherent difficulty of analyzing religious experience, and partly in conditions that grow out of the extreme youth of the psychology of religion. We are still in the beginning.
Some contents:
1. Religion as an Object of Psychological Study i
II. The Psychology of Mental Mechanisms and Psychology of Persons 14
Appendix: On the Specific Nature of Mental Functions 32
III. The Data, and How They Are Ascertained. 43
IV. Preliminary Analysis of Religious Consciousness 59
V. Racial Beginnings in Religion .... 76
VI. The Genesis of the Idea of God ... 96
VII. Religion and the Religions .... 107
VIII. Religion AS Group Conduce . . . . 119
IX. Religion as Individual Conduct . . . 136
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