Religions, values, and peak-experiences /
by Abraham H. Maslow.
- xx, 123 pages ; 20 cm.
Originally published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1964. Preface has c1970.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-123).
Introduction -- Dichotomized science and dichotomized religion -- 'Core-religious,' or'transcendent,' experience -- Organizational dangers to trascendent experiences -- Hope, skepticism, and man's higher nature -- Science and the religious liberals and non-theists -- Value-free education -- Conclusions. ch. 1. ch. 2. ch. 3. ch. 4. ch. 5. ch. 6. ch. 7. ch. 8.
Written in the mid-1960s, this is Maslow's classic treatise on transcendent states of being and their essential value in human life. Proposing religious experience as a legitimate subject for scientific investigation, Maslow studies the human need for spiritual expression.