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However, unlike for personality, one's level of religiosity is often measured by the presence or lack of belief in and relationship with a higher power, certain lifestyles or behaviors adopted for a higher power, and a sense of belonging with other followers of one's religion. [2] Additionally, personality traits tend to follow a normal ...
The challenge for the psychology of religion is essentially threefold: to provide a thoroughgoing description of the objects of investigation, whether they be shared religious content (e.g., a tradition's ritual observances) or individual experiences, attitudes, or conduct;
As part of this development, the psychology of religion emerged as a new approach to studying religious experience, with the US being the major centre of research in this field. [3] A few years earlier Edwin Diller Starbuck had written a book entitled Psychology of Religion which James had written a preface to.
Rambo [3] provides a model for conversion that classifies it as a highly complex process that is hard to define. He views it as a process of religious change that is affected by an interaction of numerous events, experiences, ideologies, people, institutions, and how these different experiences interact and accumulate over time.
Psychoanalysis has a long history of conceptualizing religious belief in terms of relationship between the self and others. [2] A religious believer's perception that they have a relationship with a deity or God leaves open the question of whether such a relationship is an attachment relation.
In contrast with the preoccupation of Freudian psychopathology, Maslow insisted on a "psychology of the higher life" which was to attend to the question "of what the human being should grow toward." [ 2 ] In his work, Maslow described the experience of one's life as meaningful as being based on a feeling of fulfillment and significance.
The study of religiosity and intelligence explores the link between religiosity and intelligence or educational level (by country and on the individual level). Religiosity and intelligence are both complex topics that include diverse variables, and the interactions among those variables are not always well understood.
Scholars in the field of cognitive science of religion study religious thought and behavior, like religious attribution, from the perspective of cognitive science. The likelihood of choosing a religious attribution rather than a naturalistic attribution for a particular experience or event is determined by an individual's need for meaning, a ...