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Emotional Maturity

sThe purpose of this research is to examine the philosophical question of when a person is emotionally mature to receive and understand a religious belief and processes that take place to influence religious nurturance. The principal departure point for the research will be Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces, which focuses on myth as a mechanism for understanding life in general and which deals to an extent with the ways in which myths that have common elements between and among diverse cultures inform religious belief and practice. The research will explore mythic foundations of religious initiation and show how myth can help identify various points in psychological, cognitive, and emotional development of individuals that are consistent with religious experience and/or insight.

The impulse toward making meaning and significance out of a flood of inchoate content and experience is the particular province of myth. According to Max Weber, who studied the origins and development of various religious traditions, overarching the creative human enterprise is the tendency toward making the universe increasingly thinkable, or rational. Rationality, also translated as rationalism by Weber's translators into English, is a concept that is central to Weber's explanation of how virtually all social structures have developed. His way of using the term is important because it is not absolute. That is, he uses it to imply a whole range of complex issues that are not limited to but do include the development of religious responses to human experience.

The principle of rationalization is the most general element in Weber's philosophy of history. For the rise and fall of institutional structures, the ups and downs of classes, parties, and rulers implement the general drift of secular rationalization. In thinking of the change of human attitudes and mentalities that this process occasions, Weber liked to quote Friedrich Schiller's phr...

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