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THIS book attempts to consider the general problem of religion in the light of modern psychology. Much modern psychology, owing to a certain limitation of outlook, is in no position to give an adequate account of religion. Psychology is a natural science, and the natural sciences rightly abjure philosophy as lying outside their sphere of inquiry. But it is impossible to give a fair estimate of the validity of religion apart from philosophical inquiries. It can no doubt be examined as a section of human mental experience and activity, but as to the question of the existence of any spiritual reality with which man comes into contact in religious experience, that is a matter with which psychology is not competent to deal.
Personality and Religion
By Dr. William Brown. Pp. 195. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1946.) 9s. 6d. net.
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HARDWICK, J. Personality and Religion. Nature 158, 112–113 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158112a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158112a0
