0514-483 - Social Psychology of Religion

Institution:

Rochester Institute of Technology

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Description:

This course examines religions as cultures that, like other "ways of life," facethe task of attracting or creating new members, maintaining their loyalty, providing them with a coherent world view and satisfying their basic needs. Suggests how psychological processes such as identity information, attribution, self-actualization, brainwashing, conflict, denial, projection and repression may be applied and misapplied in efforts to understand religious belief and behavior. Part of the religious studies concentration and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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