RLST 307 - Religion and Personality

(3 credits)

Aspects of the inter-relationships between religious faith and psychological well-being: religious experience, particularly in its psychological dimensions; negative and positive responses to religion by psychological thinkers; such problems as inherited or “social identity” faith, “chaos” or crisis in the transition from inherited to personal religious faith; faith and its implications for human existence; religious faith and its role in the development of the self; personality and static religious institutions; the personality and evolutionary or prophetic forms of religion. Fall.