Psychology and Religion
What is one objection to the psychology of religion from the religious people's viewpoint?
Offensive, fear of effects, enemies of faith, reductionism, etc.
What is the Age of Anxiety?
A time of upheaval of standards and values and of painful insecurity
A teacher offering comparative religious studies to a class full of children from different religious backgrounds.
Religious pluralism
What is one objection to the psychology of religion from the psychologists point of view?
Object to mixture of science and faith, may not be objective or reliable, suspicious neglect, antipathy, enlightenment fundamentalism, etc.
What is globalization?
The growing sense of a new global social reality or interdependent world-system that, through the influence of modern communication technology, is increasingly becoming the context for all particular cultures.
Defending Christianity through historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection and arguing for God's existence from design.
Apologetics
How are psychology and religion similar?
Many reasons, they only need to give one
What is solipsism?
The view that reality itself is the individual's invention.
Viewing Hinduism as a stupid, false religion because you are Christian.
Ethnocentrism
What is the example of suspicious neglect in the chapter?
Religion not being included in most psychology textbooks and classes.
What is postmodernism?
Denies the very possibility of knowing reality.
Saying that societal religious rites are only a tool for social cohesion, but disregarding the other aspects that are in play.
Reductionism
What is englightenment fundamentalism?
The view that science and historical scholarship have effectively disposed of fallacious religious beliefs.
What is reductionism?
Explanation of complex phenomena in terms of simpler, underlying processes.
According to Wulff, all beliefs, religious and scientific alike, are...
Social constructions