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Toward a Mainstream Psychology of Religion Beyond Poor Relation Status

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The path that brought me to the psychology of religion says much about the precarious predicament of this specialist field in the German academic world, both then and now: it took me abroad, and it also led me to practical theology, or to be more precise, religious education (Religionspädagogik).

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    Bernhard Grom

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Grom, B. (2012). Toward a Mainstream Psychology of Religion Beyond Poor Relation Status. In: Belzen, J. (eds) Psychology of Religion. Path in Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1602-9_5

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