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Description:Chapters: Hjalmar Sunden, Margot Bengtsson, Johan Lundstrom, Otto Georg Wetterstrand. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hjalmar Sunden (1908-1993) was a Swedish psychologist, known for his contributions to the psychology of religion and for his development of "role theory." Sunden's role theory states that as people learn from sacred texts, they identify with certain roles in these texts, so that they may begin to ordinary experience as a religious experience. Sunden studied in Paris, where he interviewed the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson's philosophy of religion was to become the subject of Sunden's doctorate, after he had studied theology at the University of Uppsala (he received his doctorate in 1940). After receiving his doctorate, Sunden, unable to obtain a university post for some time, taught psychology and religion at various schools in the Stockholm region. In 1959, Sunden published details of his role theory in Religionen och rollen. This book helped Sunden to obtain a university chair. He was the first person to occupy a Chair in the Psychology of Religion at the University of Uppsala and first person to hold such a post in any Nordic country. This chair was later held by Owe Wikstrom. Sunden's role theory as applied to mystical experience is discussed by Wulff (2000). Wulff notes a study by Lars (1987), in which people were undergoing Zen training were more likely to report a mystical experience if they had a religious frame of reference. Wulff also notes criticisms of Sunden's role theory, noting how it fails to explain how mystical experience arises in the first place. In 1987, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion launched a special issue on Sunden's role theory. An account of his work in the English langua...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1906543We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Swedish Psychologists: Hjalmar Sunden, Margot Bengtsson, Johan Lundstrom, Otto Georg Wetterstrand. To get started finding Swedish Psychologists: Hjalmar Sunden, Margot Bengtsson, Johan Lundstrom, Otto Georg Wetterstrand, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Chapters: Hjalmar Sunden, Margot Bengtsson, Johan Lundstrom, Otto Georg Wetterstrand. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hjalmar Sunden (1908-1993) was a Swedish psychologist, known for his contributions to the psychology of religion and for his development of "role theory." Sunden's role theory states that as people learn from sacred texts, they identify with certain roles in these texts, so that they may begin to ordinary experience as a religious experience. Sunden studied in Paris, where he interviewed the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson's philosophy of religion was to become the subject of Sunden's doctorate, after he had studied theology at the University of Uppsala (he received his doctorate in 1940). After receiving his doctorate, Sunden, unable to obtain a university post for some time, taught psychology and religion at various schools in the Stockholm region. In 1959, Sunden published details of his role theory in Religionen och rollen. This book helped Sunden to obtain a university chair. He was the first person to occupy a Chair in the Psychology of Religion at the University of Uppsala and first person to hold such a post in any Nordic country. This chair was later held by Owe Wikstrom. Sunden's role theory as applied to mystical experience is discussed by Wulff (2000). Wulff notes a study by Lars (1987), in which people were undergoing Zen training were more likely to report a mystical experience if they had a religious frame of reference. Wulff also notes criticisms of Sunden's role theory, noting how it fails to explain how mystical experience arises in the first place. In 1987, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion launched a special issue on Sunden's role theory. An account of his work in the English langua...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1906543We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Swedish Psychologists: Hjalmar Sunden, Margot Bengtsson, Johan Lundstrom, Otto Georg Wetterstrand. To get started finding Swedish Psychologists: Hjalmar Sunden, Margot Bengtsson, Johan Lundstrom, Otto Georg Wetterstrand, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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