Psychology Of Religion

Question 1

Freud longing for a father

Answer 1

’ the longing for the father is the root of the need for religion ‘

Question 2

Freud illusions

Answer 2

'’Religious beliefs are illusions , fulfilment of the oldest , strongest and most insistent of wishes of mankind , the secret of their strength is the strength of these wishes’’

Question 3

Hick

Answer 3

The verdict that religion Can be explained away by psychology is ‘ not proven ‘. While Freud and jung offered valuable insights into the mechanisms that lead to religious belief , there is nothing compelling in either account to lead us to conclude that religion is a construct of mental activity.

Question 4

Russell

Answer 4

Religion is based , I think , primarily and mainly upon feat … Fear of the mysterious , fear of defeat , fear of death’

Question 5

Feuerbach

Answer 5

Many of friends ideas heavily influenced by feuerbach. Feuerbach believed that God is created as a wish fulfilment. Feuerbach states that God is the perfected idea of man. We don’t give God negative qualities. ‘ what man is in need of he makes his God’ ‘ what man wishes to be he makes his God ‘

Question 6

Rohein

Answer 6

Theory of archetypes is unnecessary as humans share a lot of similar experiences. Such as dependance on parents so it makes sense that people construct similar myths

Question 7

Rolland

Answer 7

Said that Freud hadn’t properly appreciated the source of religion. Humans share an ‘oceanic feeling ‘ this is the feeling of innate religiousness. People can justifiably call themselves religious cause of this feeling.

Question 8

Freud response to Rolland

Answer 8

He says he doesn’t have this feeling. And explains this feeling by the remnants of infantile narcissism.

Question 9

Dawkins

Answer 9

’ I am one of an increasing number of biologists who see religion as a byproduct of something else ‘

Question 10

Popper

Answer 10

‘Freuds theories describe some facts , but in the manner of myths. They contain most interesting psychological suggestions but not in a testable form’

Question 11

Malinowski

Answer 11

Studies the Trobriands and doing no evidence of Oedipus complex , they had a religion but no evidence of Oedipus complex as children aren’t raised with a father figure. Therefore the complex doesn’t cause religion.

Question 12

Martin Buber

Answer 12

Isn’t convinced with Jung saying that an experience which stems from the mind , and as such in no was external to the subject, can be termed a religious experience