Quiz in SF6

The following are the different sources of interest why psychologists/sociologists grew their concern with spiritual development.

• Those within religious communities worry that the beliefs, narratives, and commitments of the world's religious traditions are not adequately taking root in young people's lives.

• Children are too often at the center of major conflicts, terrorism, and the trauma of war, all of which point toward spiritual pathology and pain.

• There is an emerging sense among developmental scholars that something has been missing in the scholarship and that domain is spiritual development.

• The full engagement with this domain in the mainstream social sciences has limited our capacity to fully understand the person.

The following are pioneers in the social sciences who considered religiousness and spirituality to be integral to their fields.

• Sigmund Freud

• Granville Stanley Hall

• Max Weber

• William James

In what year the scientific study of religion began reemerging.

• 1950

• 1960

• 1970

• 1980

It is the process of growing the intrinsic human capacity for self-transcendence, in which the self is embedded in something greater than the self, including the sacred.

• RELIGION

• SPIRITUALITY

• SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

• RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT

It is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development relating to the practice of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology.

• PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

• ANALYTICAL THEORY

• PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY

• BIBLICAL THEORY

It denotes a condition in which the patient's mind is intruded upon (against his or her will) by images, ideas, or words. 

• PSYCHOANALYTIC NEUROSIS

• UNIVERSAL OBSESSIONAL NEUROSIS

• RELIGIOUS OBSESSION

He was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it 

• ERIC ERICKSON

• WILLIAM JAMES

• CARL JUNG

• SIGMUND FREUD

He noted religion as " incontestably one of the earliest and most universal expressions of the human mind".

• ERIC ERICKSON

• WILLIAM JAMES

• CARL JUNG

• SIGMUND FREUD

She was trained in psychoanalysis in Boston and was for forty years in the PINE Psychoanalytic Center Faculty and is Training and Supervisory Analyst Emerita. Her groundbreaking explorations of the formation of God representations in early childhood and their elaboration throughout the life cycle have made their mark, enriching the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as well as scholarship within the psychoanalytic study of religion. 

• Ana Maria Rizzuto

• Mother Teresa

• Emile Durkheim

An American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University. He  is a child psychiatrist who studies the way children grow up in a variety of social and cultural situations. He noted the positive and life-changing quality of children's spirituality.

• Robert Coles

• Carl Jung

• Erick Erickson

• James Fowler