宗教形态的心理学述评——心理学的五种历史形态考察之三

The Review Of The Formation Of Religious Psychology ——Investigating The Five Formations Of Psychology

宗教的心理学是心理学的一个重要的历史形态。宗教心理学可以有两种不同的含义。一是科学的含义或是科学传统中的宗教心理学,是科学家运用科学方法对宗教心理的研究。这是科学心理学的一个分支。二是宗教的含义或是宗教传统中的宗教心理学,是宗教家按照宗教的方式对人的心理行为的说明、解释和干预。后者既是宗教活动提供的传统文化资源,同时也是现代科学心理学的传统历史资源。宗教中的心理学提供了关于人的信仰心理方面的重要的阐释、以及干预人的心理皈依的重要的方式。这为科学心理学的发展和进步提供了非常丰富和重要的心理学思想理论、心理学研究方法、心理学干预技术。心理学的创新就必须提取宗教的心理学中的资源。

The religious psychology is an important historical formation of psychology. There are two meanings of the religious psychology. The first is the religious psychology in scientific meanings or the religious psychology in scientific tradition, That is the studies on the religious mind that scientists have used scientific methods. That is a branch of scientific psychology. The second is the religious psychology in religious traditions, that is to illustrate, to explain and to intervene according to religious pattern from religionists. The latter is the traditional resource in religious cultures, and historical resource of modern scientific psychology. The psychology in religion has provided the important explanations of human faith, and important ways of intervening human mental conversion. Those have provided veiry plentiful and important theories, methods and techniques. The creations of psychology have to absorb the resources in religious psychology.