HOW DO CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGISTS SEE RELIGION?
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Keywords:
Psychology, Religion, ContemporaryAbstract
The situation is very different from what it was a few decades ago. Earlier, what most of us heard about was Sigmund Freud's critique of religion (and the Christian philosopher's critique of Freud). Much water has flown under the bridge since then; there have been sweeping changes in the field of psychology, as well as dramatic shifts in the way believers understand religion and its relation to other fields of human inquiry. Changes in both fields have led also to important changes in how the interface between the two fields is seen
References
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: Longmans, 1902).
Jung's major work in this area is: Psychology and Religion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938).
Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy (German original: Das Heilige). Translated by J.W. Harvey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1923).
Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (New York: Rinehart, 1955), pp. 203-204.
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (New York: Harper, 1956), pp.70-71.
Erik Erikson, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History. New York: Norton, 1958.
Sudhir Kakar, The Analyst and the Mystic: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Religion and Mysticism (New Delhi: Viking
