Psychology of the Religious Life

George Malcolm Stratton Sometime Professor of Experimental Psychology in the John Hopkins University, Professor of Psychology in the University of California.

• Introduction; Part 1 Conflicts in Regard to Feeling and Emotion; Chapter 1 Appreciation and Contempt of Self; Chapter 2 Breadth and Narrowness of Sympathy; Chapter 3 The World Accepted or Renounced; Chapter 4 The Incentives to Renunciation; Chapter 5 The Opposition of Gloom and Cheer; Chapter 6 The Suppression and Intensifying of Emotion; Chapter 7 The Wider Connections of Feeling; Part 2 Conflicts in Regard to Action; Chapter 8 Ceremonial and its Inner Supports; Chapter 9 Coolness Toward Rites; Chapter 10 Some Rival Influences Upon Action; Chapter 11 Activity and Reverent Inaction; Chapter 12 The Inner Sources of Passivity; Part 3 Conflicts in Regard to Religious Thought; Chapter 13 Some Stages of Religious Thought; Chapter 14 Causes of the Trust and Jealousy of Intellect; Chapter 15 The Place of Relief; Chapter 16 Images of the Divine; Chapter 17 The Opposition of Picture and Thought; Chapter 18 The Escape from Imagery; Chapter 19 Many Gods and One God; Chapter 20 The Motives for Decrease and Unity; Chapter 21 The Known and the Unknown God; Chapter 22 Divinity at Hand, and Afar Off; Part 4 Central Forces of Religion; Chapter 23 The Idealizing Act; Chapter 24 Change and Permanence in the Ideal; Chapter 25 Standards of Religion;