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My father, a lieutenant colonel, was transferred several times, so I spent my childhood in various garrison towns. That had advantages and disadvantages. (As does everything, I learned that while still a child. When playing ball I lost the sight in my right eye; I had to lie in bed for a long time, and we hoped that it would heal. I’ve always had trouble with it, but on the other hand, I didn’t have to do any military service, which in turn was an advantage.) I started high school in Skövde, another garrison town, where we had lived since 1916; the school didn’t offer Latin, however, so I had to make up for that later.
The text is based on interviews that took place in Stockholm in 1991. The selection of material and footnotes, as well as bibliographic and biographical details, are the work of the editor (J.A.B.). I am grateful to my colleagues Owe Wikström and particularly Nils Holm for their help in finalizing this text.
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In any case, Sundén also wrote an entry called “Religionspsychologie” (Psychology of religion) in an encyclopedia (1943).
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This statement seems polemical. The orientation towards a “French” role concept can only have come about later. Certainly the views of such Americans as Newcomb and Sarbin had already been important to Sundén at the time of his work on the first edition of Religionen och Rollerna (1959/1966); cf. Belzen (1996).
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Sundén, D.A.H., Belzen, J.A. (2012). From the History of Religion to the Psychology of Religion. In: Belzen, J. (eds) Psychology of Religion. Path in Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1602-9_14
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