Psychology 2065A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Church Attendance, Anomie, Socalled
5 Jan 2019
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Wednesday, september 12, 2018 psychology of religion and spirituality chapter 1 religion in psychological perspective. Although people have religious or spiritual impulses, there are many individual and cultural variations in form and strength. Can describe but not de ne religion as meaning systems that comprise orientations through which people see the world and de ne their reality: religion is a multi-dimensional variable that involves how people beleive, feel, behave, and know. Typically referred to as catholic, protestant, jewish, muslim, buddhist, hindu, mormon etc: during the 1960s many left their religions in order to search for something more, since they weren"t being ful lled by church/synagogue. Cultural and personal: religiousness at the personal level refers to how it operates in the individual"s life. May supply someone"s life with meaning, create ecstatic states of consciousness, provide a code of conduct, set up the person to feel guilt or free, or supply a truth to be believed.
