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July 13, 2009 on Maslow

Religion and Psychology Class 13.07.2009 No Comments

Read more about Abraham Maslow at Wikipedia. See especially the material on his Hierarchy of Needs.

Get the Google Doc that traces Maslow’s beginning argument. It’s essential to cut away the verbiage to see his “rational framework,” an argument that transcends ordinary science and ordinary humanism or tradition religionism.

Tags: Maslow, Peak Experiences, Values

See this link, which contains the link to my cv.

"I do believe that religion is, among other things, an intellectual activity -- and to play upon Paul Ricoeur's well-known phrase, it is the perception of incongruity that gives rise to thought." -- Jonathan Z. Smith (Map, 1978: 293-4) Jonathan Z. Smith's well-known description of religion, and of the academic study of religion, combines the well-known phrase "perception of incongruity" as developed by the anthropologist of mind, Jerome Bruner, and the similarly well-known phrase from Paul Ricoeur, "the symbol gives rise to thought." Did Smith mean that the perception of incongruity necessarily led to the invention of religion, or to the examination of religion?