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The Irony Of Empiricism In The Psychology Of Religion, Alex Calder
The Irony Of Empiricism In The Psychology Of Religion, Alex Calder
Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology
Current researchers are considering the relevant new knowledge that psychological studies in the past 100 years have produced concerning the psychology of religion. Experimental methods typically employed have the aim of producing value-neutral scientific results, especially in the arena of religion. How ever, methods are inextricably tied to assumptions, since how a person investigates something reflects their understanding or belief about that thing (Hood, 2013). Those methods present in psychology today take after the natural sciences in an effort to arrogate psychology to the status of a hard science. Naturalist methods are also based on naturalist presuppositions about the nature …