The Archiv fur Religionspsychologie is the oldest medium in the psychology of religion. It is the official organ of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Religionspsychologie (International Association for the Psychology of Religion IAPR]) founded in 1914. Following a reorganization of the IAPR in 2001, the Archiv is now published as an international, peer-reviewed yearbook. The current editorship is shared by Jacob A. Belzen, Nils G. Holm and Ralph W. Hood Jr. The Archiv fur Religionspsychologie is open to all scientific methodologies, quantitative and qualitative as well as to established...

The Archiv fur Religionspsychologie is the oldest medium in the psychology of religion. It is the official organ of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Religionspsychologie (International Association for the Psychology of Religion [IAPR]) founded in 1914. Following a reorganization of the IAPR in 2001, the Archiv is now published as an international, peer-reviewed yearbook. The current editorship is shared by Jacob A. Belzen, Nils G. Holm and Ralph W. Hood Jr. The Archiv fur Religionspsychologie is open to all scientific methodologies, quantitative and qualitative as well as to established...

It is typical of humans to create forms of understanding at a symbolic level of the biological and physiological reality that confronts them. This gives meaning and a coherent structure to the often chaotic nature of that reality. This book sums up several years of research into religion from a perspective informed by history, phenomenology, and psychology. Religion has been a means of creating such symbolic understandings. The similarities between various religions are actually very great, although their differences tend to dominate our view of them. Everything in the world of religion can...