Summary Schema of Views in the Psychology of Religion(1)

   

Inclusion of Transcendence

   
  Literal
Affirmation		    

Restorative
Interpretation

 
  (Religious fundamentalism)    

(Conjunctive faith)

 
         

phenomenology

 
         

interpretive psychology

 
               
 

correlational psychology

   

analytical psychology

 
Literal    

1

4

    Symbolic
     

2

3

Erikson's ego psychology

 
         

humanistic psychologies

 
  sociobiology    

object-relations theories

 
         

 

 

 
  medical materialism    

orthodox psychoanalysis

 
  theoretical behaviorism          
  Literal
Disaffirmation		    

Reductive
Interpretation

 
   

Exclusion of Transcendence

   
               

1. From Wulff, D. M. (1991). Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Views. New York: John Wiley & Sons, p. 631.