title: American psychology and the religious imagination.
abstract: In just three generations, American psychology grew from a fledgling science to a culturally authoritative discipline. Standard accounts of psychology's meteoric rise typically omit what most needs to be illuminated: the resonance between psychological theory and the symbolic universe underlying America's popular religious imagination. This article sketches a cultural history of American psychology by examining how many of its core concepts invoke a metaphysical horizon associated with the nation's heritage of unchurched spirituality.
authors.affiliation: Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Fuller
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013561:Symbolism; D014481:United States