Dariusz Krok Religijność a duchowość – różnice i podobieństwa z perspektywy psychologii religii

Abstrakt

Research currently done in psychology of religion implies existence of
a new term “spirituality” which is both related to the concept of religiousness and different
from it. The aim of this article is to examine differences and similarities between
religiousness and spirituality, and to answer the question whether it is possible to
integrate both concepts within methodological issues of psychology of religion. Conducted
analyses pointed at differences between religiousness and spirituality e.g. in
the scope of the concepts, in their relations with personality, and among references to
other spheres of human functioning. At the same time many similarities were discovered
that occur on structural and functional levels. Therefore, the optimal solution it
to consider religiousness and spirituality as not covering, but overlapping constructs.
It implies a postulate of conducting further common research on both concepts which
can give us a more precise understanding of connections between psychological functioning
of individuals and their relations to the transcendent sphere.