Religion and Psychology

About 95% of Americans believe in God and about 50% believe in Church organization (Gallup & Castelli, 1989). Although religious beliefs are spreading in society, some researchers believe that religion and religious beliefs are often overlooked in psychological studies (Jones, 1994; Plante, 1996). This ignorance arises from several different factors. Firstly, it is difficult to overcome the fact that psychologists argue that many believers of religion have their own truth.

Religious phenomena have been studied in many fields such as theology, comparative religion, religious history, evolutionary origin of religion, religious anthropology, religious psychology (including religious theology and religious evolutionary psychology), law and religion, sociology It is. It is a religion. Daniel Pars refers to the eight classical religious theories that focused on all aspects of religion: animism and magic by EB Taylor and JG Fraser, psychoanalytic approach of Sigmund Freud, Emile. Dulkem, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Myrsia Eliade, EE. Evans Pritchard and Clifford Gerz

Jung's religious interpretation, initiated by Carl John and proposed by his followers, is trying to explain religion according to Jungian psychology. Unlike Sigmund Freud and his followers, Jung's people deal with religious beliefs and behaviors with a positive attitude while providing psychological reference to traditional religious terms such as "soul" and "evil" There is a tendency. As faith is not always true, interpretation of Jung's religion continues to be of interest to psychologists and theologians, as people hold it.

Evolutionary religious psychology is the study of religious beliefs using the principle of evolutionary psychology. This is a method of religious psychology. As with all other organs and organs, the functional structure of the brain is considered to have a genetic basis, so it is influenced by natural selection and evolution. Evolutionary psychologists try to understand the cognitive processes in this context by understanding the survival and reproductive functions, religion they may play.