Psychology of the Religious Life

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-87125-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

First published in 2002. This is Volume VI of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Religion. Written in 1911, the present study an attempt is made to describe some of the more significant features of religion, and to discover the causes that give them their peculiar character.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stratton, George Malcolm

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part 1 Conflicts in Regard to Feeling and Emotion; Chapter 1 Appreciation and Contempt of Self; Chapter 2 Breadth and Narrowness of Sympathy; Chapter 3 The World Accepted or Renounced; Chapter 4 The Incentives to Renunciation; Chapter 5 The Opposition of Gloom and Cheer; Chapter 6 The Suppression and Intensifying of Emotion; Chapter 7 The Wider Connections of Feeling; Part 2 Conflicts in Regard to Action; Chapter 8 Ceremonial and its Inner Supports; Chapter 9 Coolness Toward Rites; Chapter 10 Some Rival Influences Upon Action; Chapter 11 Activity and Reverent Inaction; Chapter 12 The Inner Sources of Passivity; Part 3 Conflicts in Regard to Religious Thought; Chapter 13 Some Stages of Religious Thought; Chapter 14 Causes of the Trust and Jealousy of Intellect; Chapter 15 The Place of Relief; Chapter 16 Images of the Divine; Chapter 17 The Opposition of Picture and Thought; Chapter 18 The Escape from Imagery; Chapter 19 Many Gods and One God; Chapter 20 The Motives for Decrease and Unity; Chapter 21 The Known and the Unknown God; Chapter 22 Divinity at Hand, and Afar Off; Part 4 Central Forces of Religion; Chapter 23 The Idealizing Act; Chapter 24 Change and Permanence in the Ideal; Chapter 25 Standards of Religion;

Über Autor(innen)

George Malcolm Stratton Sometime Professor of Experimental Psychology in the John Hopkins University, Professor of Psychology in the University of California.