scholarly journals Nyt fra religionspsykologien

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troels Nørager
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Personal Factor ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
In Memoriam

This article is a review of the two recent and highly significant contributions to the existing literature on the psychology of religion. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion is criticized for its tendency to restrict the field to psychological approaches that can be tested empirically. In marked contrast to this, David Wulff's comprehensive landmark presentation of what might - William James in memoriam - aptly  be called "The arieties of the Psychology of Religion", sees the diversity of opinions and approaches as a positive (and in any event inevitable) result of the influence of "the personal factor". No doubt, Wulff's Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Views will for decades stand out as the introduction to a complex, highly problematic but at the same time fascinating field of research.

Old Wine In New Bottles: Psychology of Religion After William James

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Brown
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Psychology Of Religion

scholarly journals A Sketch on Daisaku Ikeda as a Jamesian Psychologist of Religion

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 607
Author(s):  
Kim
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Common Concern ◽  
Secular World ◽  
The Arts

This essay attempts to determine whether Daisaku Ikeda can be seen as a Jamesian psychologist of religion. Concerning the development of this essay, it first focuses on a common concern that exists if we look at the work of William James and the Psychology of Religion in terms of how it exists as a distinct movement and how it is related to Ikeda’s perception of religion within a secular world. Next, this essay articulates his notion of self and the role of mediating symbols as this exists, especially in religion, in discourse, and in the arts in correspondence and relation to James’ Psychology of Religion. Finally, this essay critically raises questions that point to further developments as regards the thesis of this article.

scholarly journals JUNG AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGION: A PRELIMINARY SKETCH

2018 ◽  
pp. 58-82
Author(s):  
Matei Iagher
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Science Of Religion

This paper aims to position Jung’s psychology of religion in the context of the development of the study of religion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that Jung’s psychology of religion represents a synthesis between the ‘science of religion’ tradition, put forward by luminaries such as Max Müller and Cornelis Petrus Tiele, and the psychology of religion that Jung encountered in the works of his two intellectual masters, Théodore Flournoy and William James. KEYWORDS C.G. Jung, psychology of religion, science of religion, Max Müller, William James

Religious Experience and the Theory of Signs

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-57
Author(s):  
Hans Joas
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
William James ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher

The foundation of the psychology of religion in the work of William James and others is a major methodological breakthrough in the empirical study of religion. This psychology of religion focuses on experience, offering an alternative to the emphasis on religious doctrines or institutions. This chapter first presents a reconstruction of William James’s relevant writings. It then compares them to the theological writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher, who is sometimes seen as a source of inspiration for James. Finally it demonstrates the epochal achievement of Josiah Royce’s combination of pragmatist semiotics and the psychology of religion.

scholarly journals Religious feeling and authenticity: Dialogues between William James and Bernard Lonergan

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Toan Dang Ngo ◽  
Nikolay A. Mashkin ◽  
Valeria L. Zakharova ◽  
Olga V. Popova ◽  
Larisa Lutskovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
William James ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Bernard Lonergan ◽  
Religious Feeling ◽  
Christian Theologian

The paper analyzes the tricky phenomenon of religious feelings related to the question of authenticity. The challenge to describe and make sense of this elusive relationship, providing one exists at all, becomes clearer against the background of two important figures dealing with the psychology of religion – William James (primarily a psychologist) and Bernard Lonergan (primarily a theologian). While James was a naturalist psychologist who put his study on a background of human nature and followed academic scientific discipline, Lonergan was a Christian theologian who set the goal for his whole system not on the level of cognition but on the transcending dimension of being-in-love with God. They both avoided the extremes of their positions and reached out to a more balanced way of understanding religion in its complexity and sometimes ambiguous significance in the lives of human moral subjects.

In Memoriam William James (Jim) Megaw 1924-1998

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-258
Author(s):  
W. Richard Leaitch
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
In Memoriam
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