The Religious Consciousness: A Psychological Study

1924. Pratt attempts to describe the religious consciousness with the view of an unprejudiced observer who has no thesis to prove. Contents: Religion; The Psychology of Religion; Religion and the Subconscious; Society and the Individual; The Religion of Childhood; Adolescence; Two Types of Conversion; The factors at Work in Conversion; Crowd Psychology and Revivals; The Belief in a God; The Belief in Immortality; The Cult and Its Causes; How the Cult Performs Its Functions; Objective and Subjective Worship; Prayer and Private Worship; The Milder Form of Mystic Experience; The Mystics and Their Methods; The Ecstasy; The Mystic Life; and The Place and Value of Mysticism.