The Psychology of Religion.

PSYCHOLOGY of Religion, The (Book); COE, George Albert, 1862-1951; RELIGIOUS psychology; RELIGIOUS life; ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY

The article discusses the book "The Psychology of Religion," by George Albert Coe. Professor Coe has shown some ability; for he has yielded to none of the temptations of the merely interesting, and has deliberately adopted a somewhat prosaic style and a purely didactic method. This, of course, means a toss to the general reader, though it may be a gain to the serious student. He recognizes fully the right of psychology to investigate all religious phenomena in a purely disinterested, empirical, and un-dogmatic fashion; and on the other hand he admits frankly that the religious enterprise is to him the most important undertaking in life, and he makes no secret of the fact that he is himself a religious man and that he means to look at religion from the inside, as well as from without.