%0 Journal Article
%T Morality and Religion: A Psychological Perspective
%A Anca Mustea
%A Oana Negru
%A Adrian Opre
%J Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
%D 2010
%I Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies
%X The present article investigates how psychological theories of morality approach the relation between morality and religion, debating the role religion plays in human moral development in contemporary societies. Firstly, we critically discuss how the major approaches of morality in psychological theory and research view human moral conduct and moral reasoning. Secondly, we appraise cultural psychology conceptualizations of morality, depicting how they fit religion in a relativist approach on what is moral. Thirdly, capitalizing on the findings of cross-cultural research regarding the relation between morality and religion, we debate and present a pilot study on directions in researching the relation between religion and a psychological approach of morality.
%K psychology of morality
%K religion and morality
%K cultural psychology and moral development
%U http://jsri.ro/ojs/index.php/jsri/article/view/24