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The Interplay of Social Science and Personal Belief in Gordon W. Allport's Psychology of Religion

Author

  • Jan Hermanson

Summary, in English

In this study an analysis of G.W. Allport's psychology of religion was carried out from the perspective of personal equation with the aim of establishing an interchange between a scholarly and personal sphere in Allport's views of psychology of religion. A content analysis of Allport's collected scholarly writings on psychology of religion, and largely unpublished personal sources previously not used investigated the writings from following categories: the components of religion, the functions of religion, religion and social science, apologetics, religion and society, and the issue of human nature. The findings in the study revealed academic, personal, and theological components in Allport's directions in psychology of religion. Allport's personality theory is the theoretical base explaining differences in religious orientations. A life long personal religious commitment with distinctive theological features served as a motive in Allport's shaping of a theory in psychology in religion. It contributed as well to particular elements in the theory.

Publishing year

1997

Language

English

Document type

Dissertation

Publisher

Lund University Press

Topic

  • Religious Studies

Keywords

  • Religious Orientations
  • Content Analysis
  • G.W. Allport
  • Personal Equation
  • Personality Theory
  • Theology
  • Teologi

Status

Published

Supervisor

  • [unknown] [unknown]

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 91-7966-505-5
  • ISRN: LUREDN/REPR-1997/1003-SE+251

Defence date

12 January 1998

Defence time

10:15

Defence place

Samarkand, Akademiska föreningen

Opponent

  • David M. Wulff (Prof)