Religion, Belief and Unbelief: A Psychological Study

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Leuven University Press, 1997 - 344 pages
 

Table des matières

Editorial Preface
11
The psychology of religion
23
MOTIVATIONS AND THEIR AMBIVALENCE
43
Desire at grips with impotence
54
Ethics and social motivation
88
Cognitive motivation and dogmatism
106
Religion as compensation
114
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
125
BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
207
The representation of God
216
The conflicts
232
Faith in the midst of a pluriform humanity
263
44
266
Conclusion
274
52
275
THE THREE
279

Theories of religion as an emotional experience
134
The religious perception of the world and the sense of the sacred
149
The quasiperception of the supernatural without perceptive
187
Druginduced religious experience
197
Conclusion
203
Rite
303
55
327
Ethics
332
POSTFACE
343
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