The Origins and the Development of Religious Emotion in the Preschool Period

Abstract

It is accepted that all development areas of preschool period have a significant impact in the future of the person. Therefore, the religious development of this period is important in respect of religious education and developmental psychology. In recent times, the formation and development of religious emotion determining the religious behaviors of human being appears as an important field of study, especially in psychology. The primary objective of this work is to examine the emotions accepted as sources of religious emotion by some researchers and their relationship status with religious emotion as well. Depending on this purpose, also, it will be examined stages of development of religious emotion in the preschool period.