Psychologie de la religion
[PSY1402]
[30h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Vassilis Saroglou
Language: French
Level: First
Aims
Main themes
- Introduction to the (intercultural and interreligious) diversity and to the psychological universals qualifying the links of interdependency and of beneficial or detrimental impact of the religion with the fields of personality, health and well-being, collective identities, cognition and ethical action.
Content and teaching methods
Clarification of the psychological specificity and of the links between religion and close fields (ex. spirituality).
Introduction to specific methodological questions in psychology of religion (types-dimensions of religiosity, measures, methodologies)
From the theoretical approaches and the empirical studies, examination of the links religion maintains with :
a) the personality (Big Five, Eysenk model)
b) ethics (cognition and moral acts, prosocial behaviour, sexuality, guilt, values hierarchy)
c) well-being and (mental) health, psychopathology, psychotherapy
d) cognition (dogmatism, stereotypes, prejudices, orthodoxy, fundamentalism)
e) group psychology (cults, charismatic leader, NMR)
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)