What is faith? What is faith from a psychological perspective? It can be easy for the secular thinker to reject faith as only for religious people. But perspectives from evolutionary psychology and anthropology challenge us to think about religion and spirituality as human experiences that manifest themselves in every society across the millennia.
What are the psychological underpinnings of faith? How does faith change across the lifespan? And what does it look like in the secular thinker?
Episode 8 of Provisional Aspirations focuses on the work of James Fowler a lifespan development psychologist and Methodist minister. Learn about Fowler's approach to the psychology of faith (from his 1981 book Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development & the Quest for Meaning) and how it changes across the lifespan.
Listen as T.W. Moore reflects on how his spiritual perspectives have changed after leaving a high-demand religious group (HDGR) and how faith might manifest itself in the non-religious thinker.
In this episode, learn about:
A lifespan development perspective of faith (6:50)
How faith might manifest in the secular worldview (8:47)
James Fowler's 7 stages of faith (12:50)
References cited in this episode:
Fowler, J. W. (1981). Stages of Faith. New York: Harper & Row.
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