Psychology of religion -: what for?

History, contemporary status, and a possible future of the old, yet strangely underdeveloped field, are outlined in a brief, systematic review. The history is sketched from the first bloom around 1900, through the rather miserable existence during the period of behaviorism in psychology and Barthianism in theology, to the contemporary slow recovery since 1950. Further, the author locates the field in what he calls,interdisciplinary map" and suggests some reasons of its coming boom which he predicts. Finally, according to Jungian lines, the author speculates about the proverbial "godles Czech valley" as a historically unique place where the undestructible anthropological constant of religion may yield new, unheard of religious phenomena.