VZŤAHOVÉ JA V PSYCHOLÓGII NÁBOŽENSTVA

Modern society has been characterized by individualism which has led people to a certain identity crisis. In the postmodern age, the answer to the crisis is partially found in the desire for authentic human relationships. This is why the way to a psychological understanding of the mystery of man is through an understanding of interpersonal relationships of the person. It is the same when we study the religious aspects of human existence. The aim of this article is to provide readers with an organized view on certain theories and related concepts that are used at present in the psychology of interpersonal relationships and particularly in the psychology of religion. Two particular theories are discussed above all: the Attachment theory and the Object relations theory – both applied to religion. Both of them suggest that we may learn more about the religious experience of an individual when we know more about his/her interpersonal relationships. From the interdisciplinary point of view it is concluded that the fact is correspondingly reflected in contemporary Christian theology.