The Psychology of Religion

Vassilis Saroglou (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-6812-0 (ISBN)

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Does religion positively impact wellbeing? What leads to fundamentalism? Do religious beliefs make us more moral?

Does religion positively affect well-being? What leads to fundamentalism? Do religious beliefs make us more moral?

The Psychology of Religion explores the often contradictory ideas people have about religion and religious faiths, spirituality, fundamentalism, and atheism. The book examines whether we choose to be religious, or whether it is down to factors such as genes, environment, personality, cognition, and emotion. It analyses religion’s effects on morality, health, and social behavior and asks whether religion will survive in our modern society.

Offering a balanced view, The Psychology of Religion shows that both religiosity and atheism have their own psychological costs and benefits, with some of them becoming more salient in certain environments.

Vassilis Saroglou is Professor of Psychology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He has conducted extensive research on religion from the perspective of social, personality, cross-cultural, moral, and emotion psychology.

1. Can we study religion in the lab?

2. Believers and atheists: what makes the difference?

3. Theist children, apostate adolescents, bigot late adults?

4. Does religion make us more moral?

5. Is religion good for you?

6. Will religion survive?

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Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	The Psychology of Everything
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	171 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-8153-6812-7 / 0815368127
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-6812-0 / 9780815368120
Zustand	Neuware