The Psychology of Religious Knowing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521033848)

The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. The view that direct knowledge is impossible in the religious domain, only 'faith' possible, is rejected. It is argued that the ways in which people come to know other things, in particular how people arrive at personal insights, is close at many points to how they arrive at religious insights. The psychological processes involved in religious knowing are described in the terminology of contemporary cognitive psychology.

Author: Fraser Watts, Mark Williams
ISBN-10: 0521033845
ISBN-13: 9780521033848
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2007
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d