The psychology of religion: an empirical study of the growth of religious consciousness

"In 1890 I read a paper before the Indiana College Association, which was the first crystallisation of vague ideas which had been forming, that religion might be studied in the more careful ways we call scientific, with profit to both science and religion. This was elaborated still further, on...

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Main Author: Starbuck, Edwin Diller 1866-1947 (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Walter Scott Pub. Co 1901
In:Year: 2012
Series/Journal:Contemporary science series
Further subjects:B Adolescence
B Religion and Psychology
B Adolescent
B Psychology, Religious
B Conversion
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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