The Role of Spirituality in Formulating a Theory of the Psychology of Religion

Abstract. I challenge the psychology of religion to move beyond its merely descriptive status and, by focusing on spirituality as the essential dimension of religion, to approach the traditional ideal of science as explanation: a delineation of the necessary and sufficient to account for a phenomeno...

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Main Author: Helminiak, Daniel A. 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2006
In: Zygon
Year: 2006, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 197-224
Further subjects:B Bernard Lonergan
B sui generis nature of religion
B Consciousness
B God and social science
B definition of spirituality
B psychology of spirituality
B psychology of religion
B nature of spirit
B value-free and value-laden science
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