(in Polish) Psychologia religijności i duchowości WF-ZPS-N-PRD

Lectures in psychology of religion help students to acquire the knowledge of the relation of man toward transcendental reality, including genesis, structure, and function of religious experiences.
Special attention is put on the specificity of religious experiences connected with prayer, meditation, asceticism, and contemplation. Social context of experiences and religious behavior is stressed together with their distortions in sects. Majority of lectures is devoted to religious development, criteria of mature religious attitudes, surfacing religious crises, conversion and apostasy. The course has cognitive and educational aims. There is room for discussing religious attitudes, in particular religious experiences and behaviors. There is an opportunity to get to know the literature on the subject and enhance discussion on religiousness of individuals and social groups.

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