Abstract
Religion was and is no topic in psychology; rather it was a topic of psychology in its very beginning. The contemporary academic psychology ignores religion. Instead of a wide range of studies in religion neither a psychology of religion nor a subject that is commonly shared can be found. In a first step I ask for that commonly shared subject and discuss a couple of candidates and their potentials in regard to their psychological and anthropological dimensions. In a second step I briefly review the three developmental models of religion under the same perspective: What is the subject they deal with and is this subject religion or not. Like I show, it is not. In sum, we have to start a new search to gain a subject for psychology that could be identified as religion. This needs in first place the courage to think systematically and theoretically independent from theology as well as psychology itself.
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