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Identify the key difficulties in forming a psychological description
of religious experience. (I)
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Describe the application of psychology to religious experience. (I)
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Explain and exemplify the advantage of viewing religion from a
psychological perspective. (II)
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Compare and contrast Freud's, Jung's and James' approach to religious
experience. (II, III, IV)
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Construct a model of religious phenomenon based on Jung's idea of
self-realization. (III)
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Assess the validity of Erikson's developmental theory as a description
of religious temperament. (V)
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Apply the approaches of American and German descriptive psychology to
a contemporary issue in psychology. (IV, VI)
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Explain the contribution of humanistic and existential psychology to
the understanding of religious attitudes. (VII)
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Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a behavioral description of
religious behavior. (VIII)
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Explain the biological components that may be implicated in religious
behavior. (IX)
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Explain how biological theories of religious experience illustrate the
differences between mind and brain. (IX)
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Describe the comparison of animal behavior to human religious
behavior. (X)
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List and describe the variety of experimental methodologies that have
been used to investigate religious experience. (XI)
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Contrast experimental and correctional studies of religious
experience. (XI)
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Describe the value of experimental methodologies for understanding
religious experience. (XI)
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