The Application of the Religio-Psychological Role Theory.
The purpose of this article is to describe the religio-psychological role theory presented by the Swedish scholar Hjalmar Sund<eac>n and to exemplify its application to personal documents, particularly in three cases: Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), John Wesley (1703-1791) and the Swedish Mystic, Ruth...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 367 - 375 |
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