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Studies in Psychology
Estudios de Psicología
Volume 32, 2011 - Issue 1
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Filosofía y Psicología de la religión

Philosophy and Psychology of Religion

Pages 9-28 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

La historia muestra cómo, de hecho, la humanidad ha producido sistemas de pensamiento y de comportamiento religioso. Si nos preguntamos por las causas que explican que haya sido así, debemos referirnos a un universo enigmático y dramático en que el hombre debe encontrar un “sistema personal de sentido”. La religiosidad, y lo mismo sucede con la no-religiosidad, ateísmo o agnosticismo, supone siempre una toma de posición metafísica. Por ello, el análisis del fenómeno religioso implica siempre una metafísica, o filosofía de la religión. Los resultados de una filosofía de la religión, en el marco de una reflexión científico-filosófica, conducen a una idea de la “problemática metafísica de la religión” que permiten entender las características de la psicología de la religión en la experiencia vital del hombre ordinario.

Abstract

History shows how, in fact, humanity has produced systems of religious behaviour. If we ask for the reasons that explain why it was so, we must refer to a mysterious and dramatic world in which man must find a “personal system of meaning.” Religiosity, and the same applies to non-religious behaviour, atheism or agnosticism, is always a metaphysical understanding of the world. Therefore, the analysis of religious phenomenon always involves a metaphysics, or philosophy of religion. The results of a philosophy of religion, as part of a scientific-philosophical reflection, leading to an idea of the “metaphysical problematic of religion”, must be seen as a necessary reference point for understanding the characteristics of the psychology of religion in the life experience of ordinary men.

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