The Psychology of Religious Knowing

by Fraser N. Watts and J Mark G Williams

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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.
  • ISBN13 9780521326100
  • Publish Date 21 July 1988
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 12 September 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Cambridge University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Language English