Psychology and Religion. Remarks from a Methodological Perspective

Abstract

The paper is an overview of the connections between scientific psychology and religion. The thesis that scientific psychology, which deals with empirical research of all manifestations of spirituality and religiousness within the different principles and contexts of culture, cannot refer to the doctrine of Christianity, just as to other religions of the world, but it should take into account in its research the cultural aspects of the Christian religion and/or other religions – without valuing tchem at the individual human level (personalistic psychology) and their influence on the “fate” of the world (e. g. cultural psychology), is being discussed.