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Psychology and Religion : An Introduction
Author: Michael Argyle
Published: 2000-02
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Religious Great Book!
This is an excellent introduction to the psychology of religion. The book is filled with amazing statistics about the people who populate various denominations. The author addresses religious experience, religious socialisation, the psychology of worship, ritual and prayer, effects of religion on human behavior, and the growth of religious movements, etc. This book is informative, but highly readable. I have no background in psychology and found the book to be enjoyble and accessible. As a Christian, I had no problems with the conclusions the author draws, and did not sense that the author was trying to"explain away" the psychological dimension of belief as another reviewer indicated.

Religious Great studies - bad introduction and conclusion
This book is a great tool for understanding why some people are religious and some not. It looks at things like socializaion, personality, benefits and costs of beliefs to mental health and happiness, and many more. The book is filled with statistics to back up the findings. Also included is much analysis of what portions of the population believe and what they believe in. All of the authors findings are not his alone but more a summary of what the study of the psychology of religion has come to find.

The bad part of this book is when the author tries to draw conclusions from the findings. He is constantly trying to be even-handed and never to say that the findings could ever be used to question the validity of religion. He even tries to give the views of those opposed to religion based on psychology and then show why they are wrong. When he does this, he give pathetic imcomplete explanations, uses terrible logic, and completely misrepresents these views he is trying to explain away. I recommend you read the book and skip the intro and conclusion.
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