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James H. Leuba: Psychology of Religion by Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture is a document available to read on EtoBox.

James H. Leuba was an American psychologist born in Switzerland in 1868 who studied religious experience throughout his career. He received his PhD from Clark University under G. Stanley Hall and spent his career at Bryn Mawr College. Leuba took a naturalistic and empirical approach to studying religion, viewing religious experiences and beliefs as arising from psychological processes to meet human needs rather than supernatural phenomena. He conducted early statistical surveys finding declining belief in G

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Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture

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