PSIHOLOŠKA DIMENZIJA RELIGIJE I RELIGIOZNE MOTIVACIJE
A PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF RELIGION AND OF RELIGIOUS MOTIVATION

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important areas of psychological research, in the field of religion, is religious motivation, that is, identifying and categorizing motivational forces laying at the heart of religiousness, whether it be operational and manifest or individual and subjective. The Allport’s concepts of extrinsic (religiousness as an instrument of satisfying needs) and intrinsic (religiousness for the sake of religiousness) religious orientation are dominant in this domain. In most research, based on the population of members of various Christian churches, these two variables were not correlated, that is they were independent. Theoretical weakness relates to the fact that an author’s own views influence the extrinsicintrinsic division lines, which also influences the measuring instruments. It would be, both theoretically and practically, very interesting to discover specifics of religious orientation of the Muslims.

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