The Psychology of Religious Knowing by Fraser N Watts

The Psychology of Religious Knowing by Fraser N Watts

The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. The view that direct knowledge is impossible in the religious domain, only 'faith' possible, is rejected. It is argued that the ways in which people come to know other things, in particular how people arrive at personal insights, is close at many points to how they arrive at religious insights. The psychological processes involved in religious knowing are described in the terminology of contemporary cognitive psychology.

Fraser Watts is the Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Science in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is a past president of the British Psychological Association, and is author of several books on psychology and religion.
Rebecca Nye specialises in children's spirituality, and has been Research Fellow of the Christianity and Psychology project in the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies.
Sara Savage is the Senior Research Associate in the Christianity and Psychology project in the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, and lecturer in Psychology in the Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges.

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ISBN 13	9780225667608
ISBN 10	0225667606
Title	The Psychology of Religious Knowing
Author	Fraser N Watts
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Geoffrey Chapman Publishers
Year published	1994-10-13
Number of pages	176
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