Psychology of Religion PSY-SJ>psychreliw

In the phenomenon of religion, various components can be distinguished. These include: the image of God, the image of the human person - including phylogenesis, moral code, religious practices, religious art, hierarchy of values, meaning of life, attitude to suffering, the concept of holiness. The following problems in the field of psychology of religion will be discussed during the classes:

1. Psychology of religion in the history of psychological thought and relations to other sciences, psychologism and theologism
2. Methodology of contemporary psychology of religion
3. Sociological and emotional factors that create religion
4. Religiosity and mental disorder. The issue of possession.
5. Religiosity and faith, religious maturity, the concept of religious development according to J. Fowler
6. The image of God. Moral development according to J. Piaget and L. Kohlberg.
7. Psychological analysis of some religious practices (sacrament of penance and reconciliation, meditation, personal prayer, community prayer)
8. Psychological analysis of religious crisis
9. Elements of Slavic religions in Christianity in Poland.
10. Religious features and types of atheism, issues of new religious movements (sects)
11. Psychological approach to suffering as a significant religious and moral problem
12. Conscience and self - an attempt to define both spiritual spaces of man
13. Religion and well-being.

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