My dollar store take is that unbalanced expressions of any of the Big 5 traits produce various forms of psycho-spiritual dysfunction
That seems reasonable to me. In my prior comment, I was assuming reasonably high Openness for both flavors of very religious people mentioned, but it strikes me now that James's examples are almost all folks who have had some kind of conversion/return to religiousness, so maybe that's selecting from a particular pool. Someone who starts out with faith and never questions it would be more likely to have high conscientiousness, but would almost certainly stick with whatever the dominant faith of his society is.
Anyway, thanks for reminding me to finally start reading that William James book.
Happy to help! :) I'm finding it very good, and it's wonderfully even-handed in discussing, well, a great variety of religious experiences. That being said, it is late 19th century prose on a dense subject, so it's slower going than I might like to admit.
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Date: 2023-11-29 09:51 pm (UTC)That seems reasonable to me. In my prior comment, I was assuming reasonably high Openness for both flavors of very religious people mentioned, but it strikes me now that James's examples are almost all folks who have had some kind of conversion/return to religiousness, so maybe that's selecting from a particular pool. Someone who starts out with faith and never questions it would be more likely to have high conscientiousness, but would almost certainly stick with whatever the dominant faith of his society is.
Anyway, thanks for reminding me to finally start reading that William James book.
Happy to help! :) I'm finding it very good, and it's wonderfully even-handed in discussing, well, a great variety of religious experiences. That being said, it is late 19th century prose on a dense subject, so it's slower going than I might like to admit.